Calling each thing by its right name

March 2011

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March 2011

Tarns at the head of Two Mile Creek (not to be confused with the other Two Mile Creek 20km north-west)
Naming places can be highly emotional or utterly pragmatic and often tempers can flare Lord Halifax once said: “A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.” It’s been well over half a century since he said that, but not much […]
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