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Western (Until Fosbury in 1968)

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Spaghetti

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Lasagne

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Sheets

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Bed

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Double

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Dutch

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Dyke

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Dam

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Dick

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Head

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Mistress

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Master

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Mind (ducking the obvious)

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Simple

(thank you for avoiding the trap that our Antipodean friend not to subtley laid for you )

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Life

Antipodean?????

The Antipode to Heaton Moor is
Here:

Funnily enough that's just to the south of the Antipodes Islands (too small to see at this scale) which are 540 miles South East of New Zealand. Kendal Antipode is similarly oceanic

The Antipode to my current location is
Here:

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Sentence

(all you Upside Downers are Antipodeans )

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Death

[JohnJ of HM]

Valley

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Happy

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Birthday

Clare got me though many lonely teenage nights. She still looks and sounds fantastic.

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Cake

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Eccles

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Chorley

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Speaker

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Bose

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Beats

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Tony

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Wilson

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Picket

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Lines

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Enemy

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Public

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Private

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Investigations

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Police

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Law

The first cover of The Crickets (post Buddy) 1960 album track.
Still think The Clash did the best version

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Jude



(Yes, Clash version better)

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Obscure (paradoxically the obvious response)

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Arabella

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Arriabatta

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Angry

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Anderson

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Frank. Hell of a prop with 1 cap against all-blacks.

I don't pretend to understand the last 4 entries.

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Sidebottom

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Valley

Sidebottom: Habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in Cheshire, named with Old English sīd 'large, spacious, long' + bothm 'valley bottom'.

For John.
Arrabella Donn was a love interest of Jude in 'Jude the Obscure'
I assumed Arriabatta to be Arrabiatta, the pasta sauce associated via similarity. Arrabiatta can be translated as:-
Angry
Angry Anderson is an Australian musician, lead singer in the band Rose Tattoo

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Lune



(I just discoveerd that I've been spelling Arriabatta wrong all my life (& I've previously done it thousnads of times !!))

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(Au) Claire (de la Lune)

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Gilbert

Clair, the moment I met you, I swear
I felt as if something, somewhere
Had happened to me
Which I couldn't see

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Balls