on 20/1/05 12:25 AM, Patrick McManus at [log in to unmask]
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> Dear Max thanks for all the Melbourne refs here will give to partner
> The line
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> low-care garden of prickly pear,
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> made me rather sad -perhaps I am a prickly pear??patrick
- but 'with edible fruit' and right now bright yellow flowers, Patrick.
Encountered hereabouts they seem relics of pioneer or goldrush days, near a
ruined shack or just chimney, and maybe a donkey grazing forlornly
Max, visitor to rural Victoria
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