We all greatly enjoyed having you and the girls visit - and thanks for your kind words about the museum.
And hey, since Nancy has lived in southern Tasmania for so long, do you think you could work in the local idiom 'I'm beastly careless'? I love that one. :)
Yup. Forty Degrees South did a little article about it a while ago. I'd never heard it in the north either - but the moment I came down here to live, I heard people saying it.
Another one Des reminded me of the other day is calling a young man 'cock'. I've never heard that before I came to Tasmania, but my husband usuakari gets it regularly in Patient Transport from the older men, and Des described the Blue Hotel brothel madam calling him 'cock' when he came in as a young police officer in the 1960s. And I'm always touched when an older man at the Museum calls me 'cobber'. :) That's a bit of a compliment being said to a woman.
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And hey, since Nancy has lived in southern Tasmania for so long, do you think you could work in the local idiom 'I'm beastly careless'? I love that one. :)
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Another one Des reminded me of the other day is calling a young man 'cock'. I've never heard that before I came to Tasmania, but my husband usuakari gets it regularly in Patient Transport from the older men, and Des described the Blue Hotel brothel madam calling him 'cock' when he came in as a young police officer in the 1960s. And I'm always touched when an older man at the Museum calls me 'cobber'. :) That's a bit of a compliment being said to a woman.
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