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   The Doctor to daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
   Re: Tis the Season   
   30 Dec 25 16:39:00   
   
   XPost: uk.media.tv.sf.drwho, alt.usage.english   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10j034f$1lkb2$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Daniel70   wrote:   
   >On 30/12/2025 12:32 pm, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >> On 29/12/25 20:45, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>> On 29/12/2025 11:05 am, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >>>> On 28/12/25 23:46, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>>>> On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:46:54 +1100, Daniel70   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> Steve and Peter, are you two in Australia, 'cause that's the   
   >>>>>> sort of Temps we've had for Christmas??   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> South Africa in my case, I believe Peter is in Queensland.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Further south than that. We're just getting cold winds.   
   >>>> Queensland is getting floods. But no doubt we'lll all soon go   
   >>>> back to temperatures in the high 30s.   
   >>>>   
   >>> I'm on the old Hume Highway, just south of Seymour.   
   >>   
   >> Tallarook?   
   >   
   >Me .... Broadford, so a bit further away!!   
   >   
   >> That's a coincidence. I grew up in Seymour. But I moved to Newcastle   
   >> 57 years ago,   
   >   
   >Why??   
   >   
   >> so I'm starting to lose my Victorian accent.   
   >   
   >Why??   
   >   
   >> I remember the old Hume Highway. Back in the 1950s it took four hours   
   >> to drive from Seymour to Melbourne.   
   >   
   >Four Hours!! You've got to be joking!!   
   >   
   >> Now it's about one hour.   
   >   
   >One hour .... on the right afternoon!! The Government MUST surely be   
   >looking at adding another lane each way .... or two!!   
   >   
   >> And, in fact, I can now drive from Newcastle to the centre of   
   >> Melbourne without ever leaving a freeway. (Except for meal breaks, of   
   >> course. And I prefer to do it over two days, to avoid dropping to   
   >> sleep at the wheel.)   
   >>   
   >Yeap.   
      
   Accentual switches exist.   
      
   >--   
   >Daniel70   
      
      
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