Re: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a pleasant Australia Day

Well, to quote G.W.; You can run, but you can't hide. Even down under.

Regards and good luck!
Mike

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:3fdfd59a$0$18385$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> About a year late, it is true. But this evening I finally get to move to
the
> house I've built on a 10-acre property deep in Sydney's South West. Peace
> and quiet at last.
>
> There's just one slight problem. Australia's premier telecommunications
> company (Telstra, if anyone wants to send some brickbats on my behalf)
> doesn't have any telephone lines in the vicinity, and won't have until at
> least January 23rd. Which means I'm offline for slightly over a month
(this,
> by the way, is an urgent and prioritised installation!).
>
> Time to do lots of writing, I suppose. But no chance of newsgroup
> participation until then (almost certainly). A friendly local Internet
cafe
> means I will occasionally read emails, but it will be about twice a week,
> and replies will accordingly be rather slow coming.
>
> I wanted to live in the countryside. I hadn't realised I was going to have
> to time-travel back to somewhere before the 1940's for the privilege!!
>
> Happy holidays, nontheless.
> HJR
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Received on Wed Dec 17 2003 - 20:09:19 CST