Once upon a time there was a princess of royal lineage who in the spirit of dynamic and modern woman, accepted a role far from the country of her birth in the land of the long white cloud. At her new home in the Great Southland there were many adventures to be had, people to meet and places to go, and a house to furnish.
As all modern princesses do, in search of a bargain, this princess enjoyed the use of eBay, that modern electronic market place of many, many temptations.
One day the princess bid on an item of furniture for her new palace, was pleased to be the successful bidder at auction, after carefully noting that the location of the item was indeed the same state in which she was residing, and the abbreviated location name was not too far from her place of employment.
A telephone call to the vendor apprised our brave princess of one of the realities of life in the great southland: distance.
The location was not a shortened form of a city suburb, as she had initially thought, when she read the name. Notting Hill, shortened NHill, though a pleasant enough suburb of Melbourne is a long way from Nhill in the NW of Victoria some 400km away...
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