Monday, 4th April 2022.
Back to the containers. We make some headway and get started on the second container.
I come across this 1969 Mack 1 Ford Mustang model. A ‘tongue in cheek’ gift years ago from good mate DPM who even years earlier had put me onto the same model car for sale. I didn’t buy it for $4200. (!!?!??!?!?)
A new arrival. A 40ft container, side lifted. Poetry in motion and all done by the driver/operator by hand held remote control.
We leave to meet Kay. She is widow of my favourite cousin Mal who left us just last year. Much missed.. We lunch at the Gawler Bakery then we part company and I (and Anne) go on to the local clinic I once attended, to check into flu shots. Some useful covid info on the wall
It also had a plaque saluting James Martin, considered father of Gawler.
We go past ‘Lesleys’ store. An amazing old system of paying.
N.B. Cash carriers were used in shops and department stores to carry customers’ payments from the sales assistant to the cashier and to carry the change and receipt back again. The benefits of a “centralised” cash system were that it could be more closely supervised by management, there was less opportunity for pilfering (as change would be counted both by the cashier and by the sales assistant), and it freed up the assistant to attend to the customer and perhaps make further or better sales.[1]
On to check how the upholsterer is going with our chairs and on the way back Anne remembers a shoe shop she had seen before. How about that.
They are nice, I must say.
Then Bunnings for various including looking at fruit trees that can be grown in pots. …
… and treated timber …
… and marine ply to make a floor for a tool shed.
Also a great compact laundry assembly. Almost the right size for the laundry cupboard.
Then back and a late walk as you can see from the shadows.
They must have just ‘glued’ the cracks. Hadn’t seen it last walk.
Then the sheep. You can almost make them out.
And a sunset gift just as we get back.
What a day. All sorts.
Showers, some more Goulash and a few TV shows, then …
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