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Aussie Life

Aussie Life

31 October 2020

9:00 AM

31 October 2020

9:00 AM

Simon Collins

As soon as distance ceases once again to be a tyranny for Australians I will visit my elderly mother in what she likes me to refer to as Old South Wales. When doing this in the past, to make some of the trip tax-deductible, I’ve always found a work-related reason to add on a few London nights, and as a further economy I always stay at a club rather than pay the exorbitant room rates of West End hotels.

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