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Issue 86, April 2009 - ISSN 1446-1099
SAYINGS FOR OUR TIME

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry van Dyke, American author, educator, and clergyman, 1852—1933

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery, French writer and philosopher, 1871—1945


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Goldie Alexander
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Ray Evans
How the Early Bird Caught the Worm
Heather Stone
Shorty
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Discovering a Cultural Divide over a Nice Cup of Tea.
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Mail to my Four Grand Daughters in NZ February 2009
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A Claytons Book Review
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The Audacity of Hope
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FOLKWATCHER'S ODYSSEY
Dermott Ryder
Murder Most Foul
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Gloria MacKay
Cooking with Google
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Peter Hinchliffe
Down Memory Lane
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Kath Mounsey, ed
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Robin Hillard
The Rainmaker's Dance
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Rodney Gascoyne
Tales of early settlement in Australia (Part 2)
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Finding Out About Your DNA
Colin Fisher
Algae and Energy
Colin Fisher
About Science
SETTLE DOWN, LAD
John Powell
Beer Time
THINGS GO WRONG
Michael Grounds
Female sexual function
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