... in all sizes

07.20 pm Monday 06 December 2010

out and about in Oberon: paper shop, big supermarket, bakery (I wasn't going to but I did and regretted it), electronics/video store (almost forgot; had to return videos on seven day hire; screach of brakes, fast 45 degree rear park (this horrible system will be end of car one day, if not of me)).

Target (or similar) clearly sells size 0 (or 1 or 2) baby overalls in marpat! Have seen very well built baby being (wo)manhandled by mother, also of good proportions, into/outof baby vehicle wearing these fairly repellant items.

Do they also provide grenade shaped baby bottles? Potties made from helmets?

Consider this very inappropriate design for infant or indeed any civilian clothing. Try denim and embroidered yellow duckies, please.

Visit to Oberon main event of day; back to loll on sofa, cottage still looking as though has been venue for christmas bash of cadre of very ungruntled junior elves eager to wreak revenge on property of Claus Inc for real or imgained ill treatment by Claus, Herr or Claus, Frau or more senior elvings (no doubt with unmentionable practices). Significant consumption of mai tais appears to have taken place with usual result.

Later in afternoon assembled, with some difficulty, cheap solar lighting in coloured shove in version, flimsy looking nylon Chinese style lanterns with which I have draped tree by gate and more sturdy version of impaler style in stainless steel (the box is quite definite) which will use to provide glimmers of light around courtyard entrance to cottage. Lit up well enough in gloom of cottage but light vanished outside. Will use more to create firefly analogue (no fireflys hereabouts or indeed in any country area I have ever visited in Australia; have only seen as part of Obon revellers kit at Kyoto Station in August 2006) effect by placing under trees along road fence. Now full of greenness; mid summer just around corner. Solar lighting only just coming on now with fall of darkness (07.36 pm AEDST). Foggy and light rain with local temperature (gauge on verandah) at 13/14 C. Neighbour to north (only neighbour) could be heard mowing lawn during day of patchy sunshine; I as ever was having down day and will live with consequenees of unmown lawn later in rainy week.

Consider to be like dishes in sink of cottage; will eventually get done in fit of energy with much boiling water from kettle, eco detergent and eucalyptus oil (wish this still came in 5 litre containers, as I can once recall it doing) and scrubbing with Japanese oval brush made of some natural brushy stuff (hundred yen store in Clarence Street, Sydney; sometimes in back aisles of health food stores; great scubability; pleasure to use (occassionally); recommended). In meantime planet will continue spinning while I nap and yawn and read (and blog).

Ho hum. Must consider (as I have been) ride on lawn tractor (no, not mower; real repellant noise making tractor thing). There will be more on this subject.