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Abbott Jarrahdale Western Australia </a> </h1> <p id="description">The random thoughts of Colin Hugh Abbott of Jarrahdale, Western Australia.</p> </div>  <div id="content">  <div id="main"><div id="main2"> <div class='adsense' style='text-align:center; padding: 0px 3px 0.5em 3px;'> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> <h2 class="date-header">Thursday, September 11, 2008</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="6820360904073552735"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Colin H. Abbott admiring an Acacia tree. Jarrahdale 2008. </h3> <div class="post-body"> <div> <div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMLTj6qnO6Jd0b-juLfZ-9nC-pFvaUpsbccVGUlPwbesnI8ecmjiaXbAi0S4nBxjQ8at6BVUE1BnXQOduqF17UV_zE_s2-IDdexwei5yqJjHwbcHukoQrYCebM1Lx1S3wVduYz/s1600-h/wattle+blossom+2008+jarrahdale+018.jpg"><img height="337" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMLTj6qnO6Jd0b-juLfZ-9nC-pFvaUpsbccVGUlPwbesnI8ecmjiaXbAi0S4nBxjQ8at6BVUE1BnXQOduqF17UV_zE_s2-IDdexwei5yqJjHwbcHukoQrYCebM1Lx1S3wVduYz/s400/wattle+blossom+2008+jarrahdale+018.jpg" width="413" border="0" /></a> </div>Colin H. Abbott, with the weight of the world (and his stomach) on his mind. I'd just bought a machine, fitted with a computer, which tells me how many calories I've burnt off, the distance I've travelled, my weight, and even my bloody fortune ... but, when this photo was taken, I'd just come to the horrible realisation that I have to pedal the blooming thing to make all this work! Anybody want to buy it? It's only done 12-kilometres. 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