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The Great War
..marking Australia’s ‘coming-of-age’, should be seen as a quite brilliant Turkish victory against superior forces that led to the creation of the modern Turkish state led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk – the country’s first president. It would be better to say that Australian forces really distinguished themselves on the Western Front under the brilliant General…
Asparagus
Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. I’ve come to quite like my stinky asparagus pees actually, which probably tells me that I’ve been living on my own for too long. I’ve been skimming through my ‘WHY in West Germany’ journal (1983) to see if I can find any references to my German asparagus story. Boy!…
Hot lips
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Running amok
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