Around Australia at a snails pace.
Tuesday, 5th April 2022.
Rain threatened.
Late to containers.
Full on lugging to and from one container to the other.
I was going to say it’s never ending but it’s probably about 4 or 5 days to go.
Home. Showers. More Goulash. The Bohemian Rhapsody film about Freddy Mercury. Extremely good.
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Got to laugh.
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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Sunday, 3rd April 2022
Slow morning.
Afternoon was full on at the first container.
I will be bold…
One more day and we will have tidying to do, but will get onto the second one.
Black Beauty we call her.
Home. Home made Goulash. Excellent.
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Saturday, 2nd April, 2022
We had a walk as we have worked and NOT walked for two days.
Planning efficiency. We put the washing on before we went for the walk. It’s called killing two birds with one stone, not that I have anything against birds.
Then onto the containers. On the way, we spot this bit of history.
Excuse the blur. It’s either an FB or EK, G.M. Holden. I can’t tell from the back. However I can tell you it’s not a standard colour. That green is in your face and not a standard Holden colour.
Almost to the storage place and we see this loving man.
He loves the centre line, too bloody much.
I never used this one because I thought it was analogue. Now I notice the magic word. ‘digital’. I wonder. I will look into it.
Made headway but still in the first container. Home.
Sausages and chops, spud, fresh peas, carrots, basil pesto, butter. A feast.
A good movie Leap Year with Irish theme and followed by Bridget Jones Diary. (with flicks to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.)
Mean time, nature gave us this gift this afternoon/evening.
Very good. The day is done.
Cheers.
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Funnies.
(This is an older one regarding the covid.)
This was captioned as how to jump start a millennial.
Friday, 1st April 2022
Today, we must go to town (Adelaide) for a mix of things.
Carpet check on sizes, over-locking etc.
…and looked at the window treatments.
… which happened to be near a coffee shop.
We spotted thin honey as well. Took the number plates off for the owners privacy but the number plate suggests it is a 1965 Chevy Impala.
On to check out bedroom built in robes. Ordered them. LONG delivery. (!!?!??!)
Collected parcel from post office.
Anne got a flu jab.
No walk and no container sorting but a fulfilling day.
Showers, meal (schnitzel and three) good movies. All sorts including Chef and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing. Both brilliant films but hugely different genres
All pedestrian stuff. We are not travelling. I ‘itch’ for the road. Bummer.
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Funnies
Thursday, 31st March 2022
Yesterday was tiring and it is a little wild and woolly today, wind wise. So no walk and a slow morning.
First job. Get the rowing machine off the low mezzanine. That’s what you are looking at by the way. On it’s side on a white melamine flat sheet.
Got it down. Now we can pull the mezzanine down. It caught me (in the head) ten times.
We do some serious sorting and 5pm is finish time.
Was a good day, Made some headway. It was going to take about a week yesterday and now I reckon … about a week. (still)
Home. Shower, food, movie Jaws 2.
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Funnies?
Wednesday, 30th March 2022
This time we will get serious. I am up earlier. No computer. Straight to it.
Even then a little late at about 8.45am departure for the walk. We have been walking past a block with sign ‘Gawler Market’ for weeks but it is always empty. We now find out it is only on Wednesdays but we won’t go in today.
Next .. Corella’s! Thousands of them. (literally)
Turn the corner and we have been told about a big male roo to be avoided. I think this is him. We keep clear. By the way, they are called boomers.
N.B. Googled … A female kangaroo is known as a ‘flyer’ or a ‘doe’ and a male kangaroo a ‘buck’ or a ‘boomer’ (hence the nickname of the Australian men’s basketball team, the Boomers). They live in social groups called mobs.
.. and further on some black headed sheep. Suffolk?
Then back to the van, get goodies then on to business.
Sort the the damn containers. First the blue one. We have to divide the items staying in the container and the ones being taken to the house by the removalists. Also packing and repacking as required. I think about a week and this is day two.
Notice the black one in the back ground. It is patiently waiting for us. Save the best till last.
A hotch potch of stuff with four mezzanines. Looks a mess, doesn’t it.
Yes. It will take a week. (at least)
After, shops and look what just sneaked past us by one kilometre in the car park.
We are currently in hum drum work mode. There is nothing exciting.
One thing I came across is an old ‘Hagar The Horrible’ comic strip from 1978. Yes. I have hoarded ‘funnies’ for a long time.
It’s a laugh. I have cropped it to hopefully make it easy for you to see.
Here is the whole thing first, then the individual scenes.
Hagar always had appeal. The other guy is Lucky Eddie who is anything but.
Cheers.
Tuesday, 29th March 2022
Big day planned.
Early walk, then early to the container to sort. That was the plan.
Didn’t work. Stayed for lunch then just a little lie down for half an hour.
A doze. Still done nothing at 4pm. Cooking mode. Early meal. Settling down at 7pm.
Maybe tomorrow?
Is that the time?
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Monday, 28th March 2022
Sleep in. Up 7.30am.
Things to do. (on the computer.)
Late morning walk. Back to the van. A few calls and chores. Got two more quotes from removalists, then off to the containers for sorting.
While there, I hear a familiar sound, so duck out the container for a look.
You have to squint.
… more …
OK. I’ll highlight. It’s two fighter planes, assuming from Edinburgh Air Base.
Home, clean, eat. Anne says ‘Look at the sunset!’ So I went out and took the first one.
Anne took the other one a bit later.
A good day. Not from results but because I’m still on the planet.
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Laughs?
Caption left in blue square. ‘Scotland, 30,000 BC. How it all started.
On the right the two naked cavemen are chatting and one says, ‘I don’t care what it looks like. I’m cold.’
Sunday, 27th March 2022.
Last night was less cold. We will visit Phil and Ann today on a lunch invitation. BBQ. Yes!
On the way we pull in to a shopping complex to look at rugs.
However we see a bed advertised. Sunday 10.30am. The shop is shut but we recognised (through the window) a bed the same as ours only a different colour.
‘Hot Price!’ Not wrong. It’s $400 more than ours was. Real hot!
The carpet we spotted and have decided on (apparently) is the Ishtar Pebble. It can be made into any rug size ….
… and the bottom line is $2130 for three rugs. One 3m x 3m and two 3m x 2.8m. I’m sort of getting used to it now. Spending that is. (Ouch)
Onward. Anne is driving so I get to gaze around. I spot this unique cloud pattern. It covers the entire sky.
We arrive. A few furniture carrying jobs to earn our keep. Then a fab cheese and pate board with a few Guinness’s. It is warm outside so we need quenchers. Then the BBQ with a couple of fine reds. Chats and laughs. Then the day has gone and we are heading home.
Over all too quick.
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Laughs?
But first something significant … and it’s so true.
Now the laughs.
