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” Thanks to John Flint ( C8 ) for introducing me to the word welkin, but using it in the sentence “making the welkin ring” has made me none the wiser as to what a welkin actually is,” admits Betsy Richens of Greystanes. ” I’d appreciate some more explanation,” he said.
” Hark how all the welkin rings” was the first line of Charles Wesley’s carol until George Whitefield ( pronounced Whitfield ) replaced some herald angels,” adds Blaxland’s David McKay. ” I’d like the gods.”
According to Ashbury’s Peter Miniutti, the most recent lunar probe,” If you’re wondering why every photo of the Artemis II ( C8 ) astronauts who have returned from the expedition has them grinning from ear to ear, it’s because someone told them how many frequent flyer points they just earned.”
Tony Tarplee of Newtown says,” After many days of anxious waiting for someone to call Column 8 to understand the perplexing problem of the captive Kookaburras in the Bridge Road School, Camperdown, I went back to the school and was lucky enough to speak to a man entering the aviary where the kookaburras are kept.” The six kookaburras are children being cared for and raised by those amazing people at WIRES until they are old enough to be released back into the wild to fight for themselves. The answer is simple. All’s well that comes together nicely.
” If Donald Trump is really Jesus Christ, therefore perhaps he can turn the water into diesel”? suggests Phil Haberland of Claremont ( WA ).
Greg Phillipson of Aranda (ACT) is a native of Canberra and is well-versed in the art of politics. I made the mistake of not mentioning your name as a potential grandchild ( C8 ). However, be assured that Marg, Meg, Margie, Margarita, M, Maggie, and all other possible names are on the selection.
Tim Donovan of Huonville says,” All those people referring to signs ( C8 ) for” No Spitting” must have been riding the rails in the rougher parts of town. People were warned that” Everage” would be fined on my daily train to work in Brisbane.
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