Bugs

[den]

Today's Strip

A bit late. We had a 4 hour blackout yesterday. A storm to the east of us cut the main power line to the west, and the secondary ones couldn't take the sudden load and failed. Dubbo, Narromine, Gilgandra, Warren, Coonamble, Coonabarrabran, Walget, Quambone, Bourke, Brewarrina, and Wanaaring (ie, the entire NW of the state) were all blacked out.

So, instead of spending Saturday afternoon rendering and assembling the strip, I sat in the breeze-way and read Terry Pratchett.

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Bourke was named after the captain who built Fort Bourke in the early 1800s. All other names are indigenous. Dubbo means "red earth," and comes from the name for the local clans "Thubbogah," literally "red earth group."

One place I didn't name was Condobolin, which means, literally again, "the shit here."