To answer a question that arose in an earlier thread _
The city of Hobart in Tasmania is named after Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, who was Britain's 'Secretrary-of-State for the Colonies' when that settlement was originally founded _ as 'Hobart Town', on a site from which it was moved to the current one after about a year _ in 1803. That colonisation was carried out, from New South Wales, to pre-empt any possible French attempts at establishing a presence in the region.
(source: the Encyclopaedia Britannica.)

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Tasmania was settled in 1803 at Risdon Cove. the settlement was moved aobut six months later when the creek dried up and kinda wrecked the water source. Ooops! So the settlers moved across the river to Hobart Town in Feb 1804. We are up for our bicentenary this year. Which seems a bit pathetic when talking to a group of poeple who can trace their countryies roots back beyond the mists of time.

So it's 200 years since it was settled? Cool, when are they introducing civilisation?

(and presumably somebody was there before then?)



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Yeah, yeah. Rave on, you lunatic.

And yes, it's 200 years since Europena settlement. The aboriginals have been here a lot longer.

Ooh, Kaz, I meant to ask: after all the talk of Englands 'Orks', how did the Springbok team get described? Their brand of rugby is even uglier than Martin Johnson...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I think the general term was 'unsportsmanlike'. Cutting, eh?

The ad for the Welsh rugby team is the worst – some Welsh kids trying to sing their national anthem, then singing ‘we don’t know all the words, but we’re pretty cute’ in Welsh. ‘Cullin Chahlis is ahr capten…’

I was once called unsportsmanlike in a basketball game. I didn’t mean to trip him up, honest!



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Happy bi-centenary, Kaz. :D

The way things are going, perhaps Oz will land in Europe and introduce civilization over here in a while.

Now there's a thought... Kaz trying to civilise PSD in her very own unique way!



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As long as she doesn't try to colonise me, I'll cope.

(and I don't mean by writing P:SD)



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

oh hell. Visual picture. Not nice. Gotta go drink copious amounts of alcohol to get rid of it.

Having visions of bacteria here. Not pleasant.

Indeed. ("Shudder".)

Pauses, to partake of a large quantity of virtual Southern Comfort.

Here in Worthing we have a church (belonging to some 'evangelical' sect, I think...) that 's staffed by African clergy: They're apparently trying to bring Christianity back to the English.

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I'll stick to worshipping the spirits of nature, thank you. Picking blackberries and elderberries for wine and cordials. Lighting candles and bringing greenery indoors at midwinter. Celebtrating the arrival of spring with feasting - eggs and chocolate. Taking note of the changing seasons. Watching plants grow and mourning the trees that were cut down over the road a few weeks ago. Throwing coins into water and making a wish.

So.....

Cats. Chocolate. Cinderella.



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and (Southern) Comfort.

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Of course.



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But mostly chocolate.

Of course.

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