Summary
WHERE were you last week, Banksy? I hear you asking (actually, to be honest, I don't hear many of you asking; and the editor says he hasn't been exactly flooded with calls from panicky readers demanding my immediate return).
But I do know my Uncle Davie in Duns worries when my weekly witterings fail to appear, so for his sake alone I thought I should explain myself: I was, dear reader, on a train crossing the Nullarbor Plain in Australia. An amazing place, the Nullarbor: 77,000 square miles of scorched, shrubless desert between Adelaide and Perth; hour upon hour of bleak countryside that looks like Farmer Morebottle's tattie fields after he's sprayed them to kill off the shaws. And nothing else.See the full content of this document
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Out and About - in the Outback ...
Towns? The only brief stopping place 1,000 miles out from Adelaide was the ghost town of Cook (Elevation 0, Population 2), long since deserted by the navvies who la...
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