Thursday, June 23, 2011

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR DAVE'S ACT

I have a new interest... developed because I have found that searching YouTube provides very little information on 19th century Canberra heritage. This I think is surprising as surely people must take videos when they visit these places. Apparently not in Canberra. My new interest will give me fresh reasons to get out and about and walk the dog...


If you would like to follow along I will post the videos here of course or you can subscribe to my YouTube channel here. If you are new to Canberra's 19th century history you can brush up with a few older posts from the past 12 months organised alphabetically usually with keywords in the title in the archive

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Location: Canberra ACT, Australia

2 comments:

  1. KeithJune 23, 2011 at 6:16 PM

    Good one Dave, look forward to it.
    Keith.
    http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/

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  2. David R. ReidJune 23, 2011 at 8:14 PM

    Thanks Keith it's a bit of fun and I'm looking forward to revisiting a few special places.

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