[m i a o w] the cat

Bloody laptop. No wonder it’s stolen. It just crashed and ate a huge post that I’d written up discussing the peculiarity of Hervey Bay and it’s strange habits of garage sale attendence. Bloody laptop. To paraphrase my post as I’m too frustrated to type it all again from the black hole that doubles as my brain; on Friday I went to a garage sale and bought a book by H.G Wells The War in the Air published in 1908 ‘only for distribution in India and the Colonies’. I found it on a rare book site when I got home selling for about $200. Huzzah!

Today M and I bestowed our presence on Koala Markets and purchased books (another Carl Hiassen), tomatos, snow peas, potatoes, a shirt, boat books, a digital answering maching (to replace ours which is a cassette one and still buried in a box somewhere) and….tra la….two couches!
The Splendid Floral

The Splendid Pinky Thing

Must wave a big hello to Merimbula where Ellise’s dad has been reading (and apparently enjoying) [m i a o w]. I toasted you with a glass of cheap white, Terry! On the same topic of personal greetings, Bean, if you’re out there, please say hello from whatever country you happen to be in at present so I know that your existence continues unabated ;o)

Visit to Melbourne is still up in the sir. I’ll be in town on the 7th of August, but I don’t know yet whether I’ll be flying by myself (and staying for a month) or driving down on a boat-collecting mission with M and staying for a fortnight. I will know come Monday/Tuesday. Am keen to see some decent films as I have been renovating my butt off, and also Hervey Bay cinema’s only show things like 2 Fast 2 Furious and The Hulk. *sigh* Give me culture or give me….um, cheap vegetables?