Is the Whoosh bird any relation to the Warialda bird. This great and wonmderful bird was great flier, used to fly out to sea and all. It got so impressed withitself it flew around in ever decreasing circles, until it flew up its own; how can i say it; well i wont say it.and disappeared.
Bob; its our mutual freinds the Poms, that use the word pitch, here we say out on the paddock. This is a word used here in Australia the describe a field.
For instance my mothers family owned a large but loor property called Wilga Mount some 40,000 acres and it could only support 8,000 sheep. and it had 5 paddocks, Tank paddock, PP (prickly pear board) paddock, back paddock, front paddock and home paddock. The homestead was 3 miles from the road. I have used imperial measurements, as Australia wasn’t a metric country at that time.
If you are watching a football match, it is quite often said “the the boys or the teams are out oin the paddock”!