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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Move over, Lord Tennyson!

 

Here comes the lady with shallots. And it wasn't the mirror that crack'd from side to side but the camera's lens that almost did. And I almost cracked when I looked at some of the prices: six dollars for a kilogramme of turnips. Turnips!

That makes one small-sized turnip worth about $1.70, which after the war was enough money to have kept us in turnips - stewed, boilt, made into soup, or eaten raw - for a whole week. It was the poor man's food!

Shopping is such a drag; no wonder it turns your mind to the past and to poetry. We've since (re)turned to the peace of Riverbend after a day's shopping, swimming, lunching and feeding the seagulls at Ulladulla's picturesque harbourside, and I'm going through today's op-shop loot:

"Marilyn's Man", a DVD-documentary about Marilyn Monroe; "The State Within", a BBC spy thriller; Greg Craven's "Conversations with the Constitution - not just a piece of paper", a book about Australia's Constitution; and another book, "The Art of Making Money", a tale about a slum-kid-turned-counterfeiter who made millions cracking the US Treasury Department's toughest bill ever, the 1996 hundred-dollar note.

I think I grab a turnip - I did buy two for $3.49 - and "The Art of Making Money" and withdraw to the quietude of the 'Clubhouse' by the pond.


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