"The Great Wall of Watson"

"Anne Forsythe at the 'Great Wall of Watson'"
Photo: Tim the Yowie Man

From Tim the Yowie Man's article in the Canberra Times, 16th November:

A kookaburra sits in an old she oak chuckling at us. And it's little wonder. He's no doubt laughing at the three of us scrambling aimlessly up the northern slopes of Mount Majura. It's like the blind leading the blind for we don't even know if what we are looking for is still here.

We're in search of a ''large dry stone wall like something you'd find in the Cotswolds'' which Anne Forsythe, of Ainslie [and formerly The Canberra Times], stumbled upon several years ago but despite several earnest attempts to relocate it has never been able to. ''It's almost as if it has disappeared into thin air,'' penned Forsythe in a letter to me which prompted this little excursion up the slippery slopes of Mount Majura.

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Hat Tip to Steve Padgham for the link

LATER: Nice little story.  Sounds a fun search.  I wonder if any of the three folk who found the "Great Wall of Watson" took GPS readings of where it is, for next time?  P.

Jane and Anna on Derby Day

In defence of the Diplomatic Service

My letter in today's South China Morning Post

LATER (20 Feb '13): This letter led to several of my ex colleagues in DFAT and Austrade contacting me to say they'd seen the letter and appreciated it: included the Consul General in Hong Kong and the Senior Trade Commissioner in Taipei.