Re: I'M BACK!!! :)

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, daniel andreasson wrote:

> Tristan McLeay wrote:
>
> > Hah! Do you know how many days I had to *walk home* in weather like that
> > at primary school?* North winds, though incredibly hot, have the
> > consolation of being dry (we have a desert to our north west).
>
> You were lucky.  We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in
> a septic tank.  We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the
> morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down
> mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out.  When we got home,
> out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
My mother used to claim she had to walk to school in bare foot in the
snow. Of course, it hardly ever snows in Melbourne (it did it on my 3rd
bday apparently). Later it turned out that the reason she was bare foot
was because she chose to be.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
                -- Snoopy