From:	Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject:	the value of education (was: Thoughts: Sourcebook Ideas)
Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:50:23 +1000

Manx writes:
> At 12:36 12/07/99 +1000 Robert Watkins wrote
> >I don't know about kangaroos in your backyard, but my mother-in-law
> >regularly has kangaroos in the front yard, and my father once
> looked out his
> >bathroom window to see a water buffalo staring back at him. :)
>
> Yeah but you do live near Ipswich don't you? :)

My mother-in-law does... my parent's don't. Mind you, at the time my father
had the buffalo incident, we were in Nhulunbuy, a mining town on the coast
of the Gulf of Carpentaria, the only non-Aboriginal settlement in Arnhem
Land, and a place where buffalos regularly had to be chased off the school
oval before we could go out and play cricket. :) I remember going down to
the beach once and swimming no more than about twenty metres from a couple
of crocodiles sunbathing.

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