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Hello Bugleers and welcome to Bugle Sub-episode 4159A for Advoc.

Advoc of course the animal famously named after a court case brought back in more Bibley

times when a Dutch species technician called Peter Van Ard launched a court case against

Noah for excluding his new mammal then ent rattled the snout about from the list of animals

invited to take up residence on his famous arc. The snout about had been excluded because

it was a hybrid, bred as a prototype carpet cleaner by Van Ard and therefore not categorised

as one of God's creatures. Van Ard won the court case, the snout about survived and the

judder snitch instead was cast overboard. Though what you ask, well, exactly. The snout about

then became known after the court case, Ard, the arc, now having defended the claim as

a business rather than an individual for tax purposes. Van Ard himself sadly drowned

in the ensuing flood before perfecting his new pigeon horse at the ultimate racing machine.

I digress. If indeed you can indeed digress, without having even begun a journey. I am

at his ultimate and there is no regular bugle this week because I am in a biosecure hotel

in Hampshire watching my own private international cricket match. Basically do tune into BBC Radio

coverage on the radio or indeed online around the world if you want to hear me actually saying

some facts, albeit facts about sports which is essentially of course a fiction. But that is as far

as unprepared to compromise in my personal battle against reality. Instead we have for you this

week a bumper crop of bonus bugle material from recent weeks starting with from last week,

New Zealand News. New Zealand property market news now and a replica wild west

town is for sale in New Zealand. It is a meticulous reproduction of an 1860s Wyoming

frontier town apparently but was only built in 2006 and I guess the challenge is the question

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