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-===== Question: When is a Test Walk not a Test Walk?  +===== Question: When is a Test Walk not a Test Walk? ===== 
-Answer: When it is not marked on the Walks Programme with an asterisk. ===== +  
 +**Answer: When it is not marked on the Walks Programme with an asterisk.** 
    
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 This "chestnut" refers to Eric Moroney's official walk of 12th. & 13th. August - Kurrajong - Colo River - Little Wheeny Creek - Kurrajong. This "chestnut" refers to Eric Moroney's official walk of 12th. & 13th. August - Kurrajong - Colo River - Little Wheeny Creek - Kurrajong.
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 By now we knew that there was plenty of time to keep our appointment with the Lorry driver at Wholohan's, so the last few miles were a gentle stroll, briskening occasionally as the evening air grew chill. Once more we piled on the lorry, and wise were they who had put on all their warm garments, as the winter wind was much more unkind than man's ingratitude - it's a habit it has in the middle of August. By now we knew that there was plenty of time to keep our appointment with the Lorry driver at Wholohan's, so the last few miles were a gentle stroll, briskening occasionally as the evening air grew chill. Once more we piled on the lorry, and wise were they who had put on all their warm garments, as the winter wind was much more unkind than man's ingratitude - it's a habit it has in the middle of August.
  
-We .arrived at the station in due course, and there was our old friend "Pansy" awaiting us. The driver, or fireman, or somebody very nice, volunteered to make a couple of billies of tea for us. This offer, of course, Aunty accepted with alacrity and a smile. As Wally would say: "And so to Richmond", where we picked up the train for home, and gave our fellow travellers an exhibition of how bushwalkers can eat when hungry. Well, this may not have been a "test walk" according to specification, but ask anyone who was there and the answer will be: "It plurry+We arrived at the station in due course, and there was our old friend "Pansy" awaiting us. The driver, or fireman, or somebody very nice, volunteered to make a couple of billies of tea for us. This offer, of course, Aunty accepted with alacrity and a smile. As Wally would say: "And so to Richmond", where we picked up the train for home, and gave our fellow travellers an exhibition of how bushwalkers can eat when hungry. Well, this may not have been a "test walk" according to specification, but ask anyone who was there and the answer will be: "It plurry
 well felt like one".  well felt like one".
  
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