One thing we miss about life in the UK is the speed of freight companies. By comparison Australia has a third world system where deliveries are measured in weeks rather than hours. An example of this would be my diff drop kit purchase. The company is in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast. The parcel was collected by the freight forwarder on 28 January and arrived in their Sydney depot on 1 February. A distance of 98km or a 1½ drive and it has taken 4 days. Heaven knows how long the dehydrated three legged camel will take to walk the 3944km from Sydney to Perth.
Three days of painting and five coats, Jan’s box is finally finished. I’m sure I’ve previously mentioned how much I hate painting!
It looks a very pale eggshell blue. Just the handles to fit and it can come inside.
With everyone talking about the virus, vaccines and inoculations Jan said to me “How do you inoculate your teenager against socialism?” I tried to provide a reasoned answer which was apparently too complicated. She explained “Have them clean the bathroom and toilet. Pay them $10, then take $7 off them and give it to a sibling who didn’t help!”
If you look at our current situation in West Australia it’s quite biblical.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse
The north has been hit by the first cyclone of the season bringing torrential flooding. Fire is coming from the east. We have plague in the city. That just leaves famine. Obviously some of the more informed citizens have recognised this as there has been another run on toilet paper!
It’s day 4 of lockdown with one day to go. Only one case (the original) has been identified but there is still some water to go under the bridge before we can say we dodged the bullet.
Further good news for us with the bushfire situation. The wind has changed and is driving the fire in the opposite direction to us.. That’s not good news for people living there. The fire front has doubled in size to 128km and remains uncontrolled and uncontained. Latest count is 71 homes lost with three evacuation centres established.
I’d better go and put some handles on the new box.
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