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hurray
exclamation: hurray
used to express joy or approval.
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Fans cheer for joy…
…when their football team
runs onto the ground.
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Word of the Day Challenge: Hurray
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wordofthedaychallenge
Word-of-Day-Challenge-Gazelle
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gazelle
a small, slender antelope that typically has curved horns
and a fawn-coloured coat with white underparts,
found in open country in Africa and Asia.
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Our first sighting…
…of African animals.
Impala…
…the rabbits of Africa.
At least that’s what we were told
and have come to believe to be true.
You will always sight an Impala on a game drive.
Kudu
We were told that kudu burgers
were on the menu one night..
Tasted okay.
Fairly certain these are Springbok members
of the gazelle clan.
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Word of the Day Challenge: Gazelle
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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Boggle
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boggle
(of a person or their mind) be astonished
or baffled when trying to imagine something.
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Who would have thought in the 1950s…
…that it would be possible to fly
Melbourne to London with only one stop.
I think Air Canada is flying to Vancouver
from Melbourne non stop.
We flew Brisbane to Vancouver a weeks or so
prior to the Melbourne flight commencing.
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Word of the Day Challenge: Boggle
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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Turning
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turning
* a place where a road branches off from another.
* the action or skill of using a lathe.
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Following roads/tracks…
…until we come to a turn.
That’s how we…
…navigated our way through the section
of the Kalahari Desert we traversed.
Finally, wood turning.
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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Zoo
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zoo
an establishment which maintains a collection of wild animals,
typically in a park or gardens, for study,
conservation, or display to the public.
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A zoo may provide a healthy and
safe haven for wild animals…
…however, no matter how large their enclosure
the animals never look as happy as they do
in their own environment.
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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Wisdom
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wisdom
the quality of having experience, knowledge,
and good judgement; the quality of being wise.
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They say that wisdom comes with age…
Unfortunately with Kelpies it seems wisdom comes
after a belting by the Labrador she has bossed
and bullied for nearly four years.
While this is an image of two pups ‘playing’
the play turned serious in late October.
Candi was not content with losing the first round.
With utmost stupidity, 20 kg Candi had a second go
at Taji and was basically sat by our 40 kg labrador.
All these Labrador vs Kelpie altercations were
initiated by the smaller dog
and ended by the larger!
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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Jackpot
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It appears that…
…Geelong and Melbourne have
hit the jackpot this week.
A day or two ago it was smoke
from fires in eastern Victoria.
Monday January 6, at 1000 and
the skies were again smoky.
Still the same at 1700/5 PM.
MGW tells me smoky skies
are forecast for three days.
Only difference is that this smoke
is originating in Tasmania, which
as the crow flies is only
around 300 kilometres
from Geelong.
Bass Strait should keep
these fires in Tasmania.
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