{"id":349,"date":"2009-12-08T07:01:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrspollifax.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2017-12-19T14:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:13:29","slug":"mrs-pollifax-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrspollifax.com\/blog\/mrs-pollifax-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs Pollifax in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that we may never get another book in the Mrs. Pollifax series but I, as an avid FAN, would like to propose storylines that we can make up ourselves.\u00a0 I have always wanted to go to Australia and I think a Mrs. Pollifax story set in this country would be a GREAT idea.\u00a0 There are so many possibilities for Mrs. P. to get into trouble even if she was not &#8220;on-assignment&#8221; there.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now according to the <a title=\"CIA Facts on Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/as.html\">CIA World Fact website<\/a>, which is the only place to look for information about any of the countries that Mrs Pollifax may go,\u00a0 Australia is approximately\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: normal; vertical-align: top;\">7.7 million sq km in area, has about 21 million people, <\/span>races consists of white 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1%\u00a0 and the languages are English 78.5%, Chinese 2.5%, Italian 1.6%, Greek 1.3%, Arabic 1.2%, Vietnamese 1%, other 8.2%, unspecified 5.7%.\u00a0 Granted the country is smaller than the U.S. but it has vast territories with little or nothing in them that could hold a mystery or two.\u00a0 Not to mention the close proximity to Japan, New Zealand, and hundreds of thousands of islands off the coast.\u00a0 If there are any fans out there that live in Australia, have relatives who live there or have visited there it would be greatly appreciated if you could contribute a mystery or spy-type thing that has happened there in the last 40 or 50 years that we could make up our own story about.<\/p>\n<p>It is a challenge to think of storylines and the carry through with them but between all of us, I think we can come up with some interesting plots and twists and enjoy them together.\u00a0 Remember to think like Mrs. Pollifax, Carstairs, Bishop, Cyrus and even her children.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"true\";\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"dorgilfanpag-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"manual\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_title = \"Dorothy Gilman Books\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"322805b78aaf3090f2e8963e2506f06e\";\namzn_assoc_asins = \"B00K4C4GXQ,B00K4C4GX6,B000XUBBY6,B00HP3Q51S,B00K4C4GXG,B00WTJ9K5G,B00K4C4GYU,B00K4C4H0I,B004SOVBMK,B00K4C4GWC,B00K4C4GYK,B00K4C4GZ4,B00K4C4GWM\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that we may never get another book in the Mrs. Pollifax series but I, as an avid FAN, would like to propose storylines that we can make up ourselves.\u00a0 I have always wanted to go to Australia and I think a Mrs. Pollifax story set in this country would be a GREAT idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"theme-link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrspollifax.com\/blog\/mrs-pollifax-in-australia\/\" class=\"theme-more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mrs Pollifax in Australia&#8221;<\/span> <svg class=\"svg-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\" focusable=\"false\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M16.172 9l-6.071-6.071 1.414-1.414 8.485 8.485-8.485 8.485-1.414-1.414 6.071-6.071h-16.172v-2z\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[86,98],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dorothy-gilman-fans","category-mrs-pollifax","tag-mrs-pollifax-in-australia","tag-new-story-ideas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mrspollifax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Australia.jpg?fit=235%2C215&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pH3bC-5D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6131,"url":"https:\/\/mrspollifax.com\/blog\/something-new-with-mrs-pollifax\/","url_meta":{"origin":349,"position":0},"title":"Something New With Mrs Pollifax","author":"mrspfan","date":"March 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"There is something new with the Mrs. Pollifax series. 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