Well, Michael did end up in Adelaide! Of course, he also started in Adelaide!lwindrush wrote:Don't all children at one stage or another in the back garden attempt to dig a tunnel all the way to Australia?
We used to dig deep holes on the beach too, Katharine, and my children have done the same.
When I was four or five, I read the story 'Two Fairy Wishes' from The Enid Blyton Book of Fairies, in which Jack and Ann dig a hole in the garden and find a corked bottle. When they open it, a fairy comes out and grants them each a wish, just like a genie from the Tales of the Arabian Nights. That inspired me to dig a hole in the back garden in the hope that the same thing would happen to me!