We used to find them everywhere along the roadsides when we lived in Cobar in central NSW ----- Original Message ----- From: Graeme R Roberts <graemer@melbpc.org.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 23 October, 1999 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [AVG] Re: Pademelons/unwanted kittens > Hi Lauris > You are right on both counts as we in Vic calla shovel a shovel but the > other states call things differently i.e. Pork German in SA is Fritz and so > on however I think the South Australians and the Queenslanders call a small > melon not unlike a cantaloupe a Paddy Melon.The ones I am thinking about > grow along the roadside in the dry areas between Vic and SA borders they > could have a smooth skin but the size of a cantaloupe.Come on the scraggers. > Regards > Graeme R Roberts > graemer@melbpc.org.au > Researching Roberts,Thomas ,Johnson. Millard,Gordon,Herbert,Brucciani > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lauris Crampton <crampton@senet.com.au> > To: <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, 22 October, 1999 3:51 AM > Subject: [AVG] Re: Pademelons/unwanted kittens > > > > Please, cld SKS tell me what a pademelon is? I thought they were some > kind > > of melon that grows by the side of the road and is yellow in colour, but > > now assume that they are some sort of animal - like a kangaroo perhaps. I > > am a city person from Footscray. > > > > I wish people wld deal properly with their cats, unsterilized cats are a > > curse in the suburbs as well. > > > > Lauris > > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > > Rootsweb asks us to keep our signatures on Mailing Lists short. > > Please do not exceed five or six lines on this List. > > > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > Please try and edit as much as you can out of return messages to the List. It helps make life easier for Rootsweb, as well as all of us on the List. >