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WEDNESDAY evening, Brisbane: So far tonight, we have yet to receive
reports from The Front, where operation apim haus na wokabaut igo long
narapela hap is underway. Moving house is one of life’s nightmares, and
all the open and shut hi-tech available down here doesn’t reduce the
agony and the ecstasy by very much.
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HAVING learned our lesson yesterday, we dispatched one of a pair of sons
to take our place and lug mahogany wardrobes straight out of Pride and
Prejudice
downstairs. We’ve heard not a peep out of him all day. Ah, peace at last
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BUT the junior brigade was ecstatic on Tuesday, as the new address sports
a swimming pool. There appeared to be shared ambitions relating to future
Olympic Games, and sports such as swimming and water polo – and with one
grand-daughter, synchronised swimming. Shades of Esther Williams!
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TALK about bizarre murders, and the reporting thereof ... PNG’s murders
and their newspaper and TV
coverage pale into insignificance beside those of an Oz father who
tortured, then set fire to a seven months old child presumed to be his
own.
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OR last week’s savage slaying of a quiet 82-year-old New Guinea war
veteran living in the peaceful rural town of Armidale in NSW. He was
found at home with his severed head lying on the grass nearby. So far, no
motive, no suspect ... but lots of TV footage. Brrr ...
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AT Six Mile in Port Moresby, just at the bottom of the hill, there is
today a large market with a few sad trees scattered around. That was once
the site of Sheedy’s Nursery, where Port Moresby householders could buy
all manner of shrubs, trees, seeds and garden
equipment.
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THE capital should be grateful to Sir Brian Bell for his determined
effort in running a commercial nursery at Boroko, and we know there are
one or two other places where palms and orchids can be obtained.
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BUT a capital city should have a central nursery where all kinds of
flowers, shrubs and trees could be bought by householders. POM is one
city where we could make a great difference to the landscape and our life
style.
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– Dee Nesenolis
 
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