I'm leaving the motel in two hours., so I'm making toast in the provided toaster. I have a pocketknife so I can spread stuff on the toast, but there's no plate. Oh, wait, there's a microwave oven. I'll use the glass plate inside that. Problem solved.
Imagine this. Cloncurry, northwestern Queensland, 1970.
A 23-yr-old unemployed schoolteacher took on a job as governess for a child on a distant cattle station (aka ranch). But she was unable to reach that property because all direct access roads were flooded. So the station owner contacted the local shire, who sent out one of their junior engineers to drive her to her destination via the unaffected back roads.
15 months later, they were married.
That's how my cousin Colin met his late wife, Wendy.
@streakmachine We should never have stopped using semaphore…….
// @hazardwarning
More backstory on the passing of my cousin's wife: on Saturday evening last week she hadn't been feeling well so went for a lie down on the sofa. An hour later Colin tried to wake her but couldn't. This is when he realised that his beautiful partner for the last 45 years had gone.
As their eldest son observed during the euolgy, "As far as Mum was concerned, there were only two groups of people in the world: those whom she loved and those she hadn't met."
437 km travelled today, to the funeral & back. Now resting my weary knees before going back to my aunt's place for a soup dinner with her & my Mum.
It's a shade over 200 km each way from our lodgings to the funeral location, we managed to do it with no intervening stops.
Getting a cup of tea going, that's always good.
Not used to winter in these inland cities, the overnight temps tend to be lower than the quasi-coastal zone at home despite the latter's closer proximity to the chilly Antarctic winds. Most of south-east Australia is going for between 7 & 9°C today. With showers.
@jextxadore Halfway thru the pressing, I pull back up briefly to get more air into it.
// @matigo