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Parafield

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Sunday, 12th February 2006

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In the suburb of Parafield, just north of the city of Adelaide (the capital of the state of South Australia), there’s an airport imaginatively named Parafield, where they’ve written ‘Parafield’ in 12-foot-high trees. We reckon the type is roughly 141,732 point ;-)

Thanks to Dave the Lifekludger.

4 Responses to 'Parafield'

  1. chris says:

    good post!

    i’ve driven past this shrub of bushes many many times wondering how they look from above.

  2. Shawn says:

    Just to let people know, these trees will shortly be cut down and replaced.
    local paper said they were old and dieased

  3. Ar Dee says:

    Disease, what isnt?

    More likely in the way of lucrative Commercial development.

  4. K Maroon says:

    Ar Dee is spot on.

    The disease is called ‘arrogant greed’. It proliferates amongst the ignorant , often disguised as ‘growth’, a common cancer amongst societies that have ‘poled’ beyond once a common conceptsof civility, now displaced by mental toyplaying petrol heads.

    They also wiped out a colony of scrub fowl (birds) that were happilly living in the bushes.

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