All about Tuesday. And a break in the routine and retinue.

A rainy, very overcast day today. And this may have been why we all -all six- went weekly shopping and etc at 4:30 in the afternoon.
What prompted this startling break from our rut? Tomorrow being a public holiday Coles will of course be shut up.
We still did all the usual things like going to the Post Office from the van running underneath attacking pieces of water. It was raining during the entire trip.
I had to post something that I'd sold, aiming to make the most out of extra postage money.
At the same time Mum posted a birthday card to little nephew Caleb finally, to discover later (not much later) that she had written the wrong address.
Tammy came with me most likely to ensure the purchase of two tiny packets of dried apricots from the vegetable shop. Each packet cost the exorbitant sum of $1, being round about (aha! a pun!) 6 dried apricots (shrivelled may be the better describing word) in each packet.
Using the computer calculator we see that each dried apricot cost 16.6 cents -and that is almost a days work for fat head Charles and his little house on the prairie.
Regardless of that disturbing information, these dried apricots were shared out in my absence (probably most carefully) as I had also to peruse the store of IGA for the cheapest box of cocoa.
upon my arrival I received two packets of one apricot.
I have no way to know if i got a good deal -a good deal is me getting more apricots than anyone else -or was cheated out of one other dried apricot.
At Coles the outstanding incident (for Dad) was that there was not a satisfactory variety or quantity of meat on the shelves -being the day before this public holiday. Fact: Meat is the most sought after celebratory food in Australia -where a dainty snack is a bowl of cows legs.
Another of our errands attached to that trip was to pick up The Guardian newspapers for later delivering, the mailboxes must be pleasured.
And even the rain did not stop Dad from stopping at an obscure IGA to buy his ham, priced $0.10 cheaper than Coles.

That's the end of this tale, as I keep back things from you that I do not care to divulge.