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The origin of the connection between vinegar and a skipping girl is a skipping rhyme, usually "salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper, if I dare, I can do better..." to which the rope would be spun faster.

Ecar, you've touched on a Melbourne icon with the skipping girl.

She's called Little Audrey and was the first animated neon sign in Australia in 1936

The building was demolished and Whelan the Wrecker claimed ownership, and

sold her to a used car dealer

Melburnians were outraged (lol) and she was sent to be restored.  She has now

been returned, fully working, not far from where she always lived.

I can see it now - Come on down to "Skipping Girl Motors", Bridge road, Richmond, for great deals on used cars... ha ha.

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There's about a half hour in the evening after the birds have gone, until it turns dark.

The mozzie half hour... ha ha.

Citronella candles are good for keeping about half of them away...

Half... ha ha.

So if I want to hang around for some socialising with the fuzzy folk when they get up...

Who am I kidding? ha ha.

I'd rather be inside getting something to eat, than outside being eaten... ha ha.

Some time in that half hour, or so, they stir, arise... the fuzzy folk, that is...ha ha.

And at this time of year make haste for the local greenery...

They're eating everything that they can, of everything that they like, in the leadup to the colder months...

Before long they'll find the menu limited...

Then it's down to boring people food...

It can't be that bad... this is the same boring people food that I see disappear in the small hours of the morning... ha ha.

I may not see or hear them that often, but I know they're round...

Well, they must be round, considering the amount they're eating... ha ha.

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The enormous giant girl possum is here, with her little one...

Down the ramp from the fence they came...

Mum started eating, and the little one ran back up the ramp, ha ha.

Then ran back down the ramp... ha ha.

"What are you doing, Mum?.... Oh, look, corn!", well, that's someone happy, ha ha.

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