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Old 05-11-2006, 11:29 AM posted to aus.gardens
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Default Re Water Restrictions

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"0tterbot" wrote:

no no - that's the belt with all the mcmansions. there's no room on the
blocks for anything once the mcmansion goes up. we went to kellyville to
have a gawp one day years ago - i'm still not over it, i don't think i ever
will be ;-)


Nor me, especially when I (like Meeeee) remember what it used to look like :-(

My Grandma used to say of something disproportionate that it was "like a
pimple on a pumpkin". A McMansion on a tiny block looks like a pumpkin on a
pimple!

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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