I was all dressed up to go into town with an elderly neighbour who needed help with some banking problems when the problem suddenly resolved itself through a simple phone call. Being already all dressed up, we decided to go somewhere instead of nowhere, and had lunch at the Moruya Bowling Club, and followed it up with drinks at the Soldiers' Club in the Bay.
Of course, no drive down the coast is worth its petrol unless it also includes a visit to my favourite shop where I found "PAPER, An Elegy - A celebration of the age of paper". It was priced at just a dollar since the op-shop's 'book whisperer' hadn't really expected to find a buyer for it among the local farmers and tradesmen. He clearly hadn't expected it to be found by someone for whom paper had been food and drink for most of his life, and who would gladly have paid full cover price for it.
To round off the bill, Padma picked up a mystery package priced at twice the money - two dollars! - which revealed itself as a hardcover edition of Stephen King's "Needful Things". As the message suggested, "Don't wish too hard for what you want ..." I wished it hadn't been a Stephen King book because my Stephen King days are far behind me.
Luckily, all this rather extravagant spending was well and truly covered by another 23-cent rise of my BHP shares which closed at $43.77 today.
