A newspaper clipping from a time when sheep grazed on the footpaths in Civic and Eastern brown snakes were, of course, dispatched with tyre levers in the streets of Canberra...
The Courier-Mail - 13 November 1933
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That must have been one of those "good old days"! I just wish they would stay out of our garden!
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Time for me to start being careful on my walks too Keith. Not so much myself, I worry about the dog.
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