Wangaratta. The name is derived from the Bpangerang people’s words of “Wanga” meaning long neck and “ratta” the Cormorant. Who put them together, I know not.
Tuesday 10th July dawned frosty but with a clear sky and the sun warming things up. Not for Wangaratta the fogs and frosts of Longford it seems.
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Thursday 5th July
We headed down into Melbourne on Tram 11, disembarked at Spring / Bourke and Sue called into Pharmacy to get a prescription filled. Oh dear – one has expired. That’s OK we are told – there is a Doctor’s Surgery just round the corner. Sue got to see a Doc and when he saw the expired Prescription was from Longford and then saw our Doctors name he was beside himself. “I know her, she is the best GP in the world” he said. This Doctor was from Syria and apparently during his early days in Australia our GP had helped him get settled. So all was OK and Sue now has her complete set of drugs.
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