Any movie starring Sam Neill is a good one, and so I bought "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" several years ago at full cover price; today I found it in my favourite op-shop for two dollars. I picked it up - together with an armful of books - as a small gift for a neighbour who hasn't seen this entertaining New Zealand movie yet.
Ricky is quite a handful and unlikely to make use of what's on offer in his room. The 1947 children's book "Bart: The Story of a Dog" by Ormond Edward Burton seems to be appropriate reading for someone of his age, but Erroll Flynn's "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" could give him some wrong ideas, while he would have no idea at all that "Animal Farm", if it is the book by George Orwell, is meant to be a satire of the Soviet Union.
Which brings me to that aforementioned "armful of books": Manning Clark's "The Quest for Grace", Hugh Mackay's "Ways of Escape", and David Marr's "Panic". Let's hope the coming weekend is as cold and grey as has been most of this week. It would make for great reading weather!
While we had lunch at the Bay's only Thai restaurant, BHP shares hit a twelve-month high of $44.55. Perhaps I should have offloaded some, because they are down to $43.85 at the time of writing. Still, I had placed an order to sell 20,000 Pilbara Minerals at $3.33 before we left home this morning. They got sold this afternoon after I had bought them only two days ago at $3.14. That's a $3,800 profit before brokerage (and tax-free as I bought and sold them inside my SMSF which is in pension phase). Enough to cover this month's grocery bill four times over!
