their mother who traded Greg in for a newer model - his words, not mine!
Meet Greg, former court officer in Port Douglas and Cairns, whom we met at the Ulladulla Bowling Club just as we pulled in for a sumptuous lunch of curried king prawns followed by cheesecake and icecream.
He'd just gone 'round Australia - for the second time - and was on his way home again. Home was Port Douglas, still almost three thousand kilometres away, or longer than travelling from Turkey to Finland by air, and he can do it all without a passport - in fact, with no ID at all unless he drives a car in which case he needs a driver's licence; without ever having to speak another language; and without ever having to exchange money. You may call it boring; I call it home!
And I liked Greg, not only for his Oxford comma between the "single" and "happy", but also for his happy-go-lucky outlook on life. And guess how old he is? SEVENTY!!! I wouldn't have taken him for a day over fifty! It must be the "single"-bit that kept him looking so young. Now compare him to that sorry-looking specimen standing beside him.
In fact, we'd come all this way from Nelligen to get me measured up for a partial upper plate so I wouldn't be looking quite so sorry-looking, and I struck it lucky at Hancock Denture Clinic. Old-school Brett Hancock took an impression without any upfront payment, and then impressed me even more with his quote of $1,200 - compare that to the $1,900 I was quoted in the Bay, and the $2,100 in Moruya.
It pays to shop around which we did at Silly Solly's ("Nothing over $5") and at our usual op-shops where I stocked up with two audiobooks to while away the nights while Padma is in Indonesia: seventeen hours of listening to Peter Fitzsimons "Batavia" - of course, I already read the book - and another ten hours of listening to "The Light between Oceans" - of course, I also had already watched the movie. I also re-homed a few more books again but I won't bore you with those.
It's good to be home again! Tomorrow the plumber comes to instal a new kitchen sink; the existing one is not big enough to hold all the unwashed cups and plates from the six weeks that Padma is away.
