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Tonka rules!

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 Many years ago I asked a Canberra cabbie why the Canberra Airport was such a disaster area of building sites.  His response was "George Snow's mum wouldn't buy him a Tonka Truck for his his 5th birthday.  He is now overcompensating."  Fast forward to this morning and a City Parks guy said to me "An excavator and a demolition site, and we all revert to childhood."   I don't remember my mum refusing to buy me a Tonka, but here are some snaps which support the latter assertion. The nice chimney in the foreground is on the house occupied by the manager of Fawkner Park. Note falling rubble! I would not like the job of the guy on the RHS!  Certainly he would not want to annoy the driver of the excavator!