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How 2020 ended…
A little bit of war profiteering
New Government House
Reconstructing old Perth out of cardboard (so it lasts, this time)
What has been left unsaid..
Coming eventually in 2020…
Going to the Fairies…
Grave Matters
Won’t you think of the children?
Boom time.
Alias Hoffington
Rename Canning Bridge
Choose your own Adventure
A Trial on Trial
Pavement Archaeology
Dyson’s hat
A Tale of Three Cities
The Sons of Australia Benefit Society
Dyson’s Corner (the Second)
Our George Dyson
Thomas Dyson: The Canny one
The Fate of The First Wife, Part III
The Fate of the First Wife, Part II
The Fate of the First Wife, Part I
On Cemetery Hill
I demand the right to be labelled a bastard
Recognise this face?
Astley 3: The Gallant Ship Australia
Astley 2: For Sail
Astley 1: Orphans of a Perfect Storm
When the apocalypse comes
The Stranger In the Mirror
An Anthemic Ancestor
The Smoking Gun
Happy Gunpowder Treason Day
Dyson’s Hotel
Dyson’s Corner (the First)
Fake News
Winterbottom’s End
The Sons of Australia: Foundation and Foulkes
Under the Establishment
I hate Maitland Brown
Francis Armstrong: Thesis
Thurso
Aberdeen
Literally —ing the Patriarchy: Introducing Jane.
Kill the Joke (AKA: “You had to be there”)
Steam Powered Luddites
Timber!
The Little Boy Lost: Enter Drewy.
Know your Guv’nor
Secret Squirrel Business
Rottnest Island #1: It’s a start
Leetown to Auchterarder
CSI Halifax
Hello Sailor…
“The Poste Restante”
Going Postal: The great family rift.
All the girls love a soldier
In Old Hobart Town
Dorothy Dyson Dances
Joseph Dyson the Elder: The Respectable one
Are you my Mummy?
Stuffed
Stones in Cumberland
Twenty-one Children
Too outrageous a coincidence?
A Dark Deed in a Damp Land
Van Diemen’s Land
The Lancashire Hotpot
An introduction to the Dysons

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Alan Thompson @warpedtime·

16 Jan

Just one paragraph left to finish this chapter... one fracking measly paragraph...

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16 Jan

Last week was a shit week. This one was considerably better.

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10 Jan

By the way... I just love it when certain people copy articles off my website then post it on another website under their own name. I love it even more when they include a big thank you to me on the same page which implies they bothered to ask me in the first place.

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29 Dec

' The major was an Irishman, who, with the typical ready wit of the Hibernian combined an unusual quality of "nearness." ' (written in 1926)

.... what the hell does "nearness" mean in this context?

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22 Dec

http://www.warpedtime.com.au/encyclopedia/how-2020-ended/

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