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Christmas celebrations were a huge success at the Watch Tower with family and friends, although Banjo had to leave mid-afternoon on a call out with work. I invited him to return if it was a short callout, which it wasn’t. He did say on leaving that he had enjoyed the Christmas celebrations very much. He thanked me for inviting him there, as he gave me a big, long hug in appreciation before leaving, which caught me by surprise, and made me wonder if he was Gay or Bi, too. On Boxing Day morni
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Awesome story. Especially the bit about New Australia. Thanks for writing this unique adventure. Q
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Awesome story. Especially the bit about New Australia. Q
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Another awesome Aussie story. Thanks mate. Q
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What an awesome story. Thankyou. regards Quokka
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Aussie, Aussie, Aussie…. Oi! Oi! Oi!
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Please Sir Mate! Can we have some more of this story?
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im really enjoying this story thanks Mark.
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My family did come from the UK and did start farming almost as soon as they arrived in the late 1830’s, leasing an established farm near Toodyay in Western Australia, and our family continued farming for six generations, sadly only one cousin owns a farming property now, while my nephew (same generation as the cousin) manages a farming property in the South West of the state. My direct family farmed @ Toodyay - GG Grandfather, Guildford & DeGrey region - G Grandfather, Balingup and Granville - Great Uncle and Grandfather, Gingin and Dandaragan - Father & Brother and Bridgetown - Nephew.
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Thanks Ricky
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Never mind, i finally worked it out, sorry about that.
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Hi you often do deep dives in categories of story type, mystery, adventure, western…. is there a way to do a search for stories in categories like this please.. q
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Very true. A majority of the summer fires here in WA, that Western Australia for you foreigners, lol, are started by dry lightning storms, and are often in remote locations. We have had only one town completely wiped out by wildfire (Yarloop) with just one death there. The remote fires are often very difficult to reach to fight them due to the terrain, and in daylight hours water bomber aircraft are used to control them. A bushfire recently close to the town where i live, shut down the main East/West Highway and although most of it was in bushland, three farming properties lots homes or main structures, and it also threatened a major medium security prison that was only five kms away.
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Very hot and regular bushfires here WA part of Oz.
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Stay safe mate. Watchout for any bigfoots or big beasties….
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While Mum and Dad socialised with other guests in one of the lounges, I took Brodie to explore as much of the train as we could see, which was interesting, and we stopped and chatted with a few people on the way exploring the train. Once back at our cabin, Brodie lay down for a nap and he was soon fast asleep, which gave me a chance to do some online reading, and about ninety minutes later, he woke up about 90 minutes later with a loud yawn and stretch, which made me smile. I suggested that
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“Help. I am Dalton A Huxley, an Australian citizen on holiday in Canada. Uncle Oliver in Trout Creek, BC, Canada,” was all I had time to write, enough I hope to get me free and back with family in Canada again. It was not long before I was brought into the Okanogan County Jail, where I was formally processed, given a prison uniform basic supplies, and a rule book which I was expected to read and follow. I decided to remain silent for however long it would be in this place of horror, and I hoped
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During the hike the winds picked up again, making it hard to walk, especially with the road being mostly uphill. When I finally arrived, I entered the Post Office first and asked them to call an ambulance to Pioneer Park down by the lake, as my cousin was gravely ill, I gave the dispatcher my cousin's name, age and home address, and instructions on where exactly to find him. I would need to return to camp and pack it all up call, so I called my parents to come and collect our belongings in
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I wish ppl would stop over analising, and just say what they think of the story in general terms.
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Once we had arrived in Sapporo, we checked in and settled into our hotel family suite, and we spent five wonderful days exploring the city and surrounding areas, and spending time with Ms Keiko and her family. Once again we travelled by bullet train back to Tokyo, where we had one more night stay in the Capital before we boarded our direct flight to Vancouver, BC Canada, which is a 9-hour flight, and once again we were seated in Premium Economy, which gave us a little extra space compared to jus
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Dalton is a very bright young man, who gets to live overseas because of his parent's work and learn additional languages. After seven years of living in Singapore, Dalton and his parents and baby brother returned home to Australia, where they settled down to a reasonably normal life, that was until they made a trip to BC Canada, to visit Dalton's uncle Oliver and older Cousin Tyler, and life takes a dramatic turn...
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I had always been a very intelligent kid, from a very young age, and because of this, I was able to achieve a lot even before entering high school at the age of 11. My father is an Engineer and my Mother is a teacher, so when Dad was transferred to Singapore, we just stored everything that we were not taking with us and flew off to a new country when I was just four years old. The move overseas didn’t matter much at that age, as I had spent a lot of my time at home learning Japanese and Hokkaido
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Hello my faithful followers. i hope that you had a happy and safe Christmas and enjoy the approaching New Year celebrations. (Just two hours and 41 minutes away here in WA Australia…) I am currently writing a new story, which i will start posting soon. I recently learnt that i have cataracts in both eyes and i have surgery planned for both in mid and late January, just a few weeks away. Not sure how it will turn out, but here is hoping that all will be good afterwards. i will have posted all the chapters of the new story before the surgery, just in case. Best wishes to all. Regards Preston aka Quokka
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Thanks for your comments. Merry Christmas
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After nearly four weeks in the hospital, the doctors had me begin physical therapy, and this showed how badly affected I was by this disease, as I had become very weak, and I needed to get all the muscles in my limbs working properly again, and after the first two daily sessions I was very frustrated at how weak I had become and how hard it was to move my arms and legs. A week later, shortly after lunch, I was surprised to see Mum walk into my room with Mr Battersby following, and I frowned as I
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