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I have been absent from my computer and the CC for the last couple of weeks, we have had my daughter, partner and 2 grandchildren over from the east coast staying with us.
For 76 years I was the last male member born into my entire family!
Three and a half years ago I relinquished that title and became the second last.
Because I waited so long to have another little man around I don't want to let too much time get away from me and he.......
I took him to feed the local wildlife........
He loves fruit and lollies so, we took him to our country's best produce growers market....all 6 acres of it.
I bought him a drone quad-copter......
Which I think I got more fun out of flying than he did.
I am trying to do things with him that I would have liked to share with my father.
They are gone now, back to the East Coast but we had such a lovely time together and I can't wait to do it again.
Cheers........Rob
@Sophia @Ana2038 @Till-and-Jutta0
Sailah wasn't the only one who had a good time.
People are beautiful the world over!
One of the Central Market stops was of course, the Blackerby's Ol' Lolly shop. Ivy was in 7th heaven not knowing what to look at first.
This lady came over to her and said....."Are you on school holidays?" to which Ivy said in a shy way...."Yes"!
The woman said to her...."You have a look around and pick out what you would like and bring it to me"!
Ivy quickly spied this candy and chocolate shoe.......
She took it to the lady and asked her how much money it would cost. The lady took the shoe and filled it with all the sweet treats that would fit in it and said to Ivy......"This is a treat from me to you, this is my shop, I was a little girl like you once", looking at us she said, "There's no charge"
We all shed a bit of a tear, it was a beautiful moment with a lovely person.
Cheers........Rob.
@Robin4 loving this autumn weather! Your grandson looks like a champion.
We've been dry in the wine regions for about 4 and a half months now, and the vineyards are picked clean. The weather Gods are holding off, but it will rain, probably until August. You will love the 2024 Vintages, the ripening season was spectacular all over SA.
Here is a photo taken by a customer during the Barossa Wine Tour (driving my Honda). I do these on Airbnb Experiences too.
Cheers, Charles
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I think most of us have had experience trying to drive in Sydney. Just to drive across Sydney can cost you $65 in tolls. Travelling there a bit during the year I even have a Etag on the windscreen in my car, with my own toll account. The SA community have said loud and clear, the first government to introduce road tolls into SA will be lynched!
It was first suggested when the Heysen tunnels through the Adelaide hills on the South Eastern Freeway were opened in March 2000. The local government of the day copped so much flack the Prime Minister at the time John Howard had to step in to defuse the situation by decreeing that the tunnels formed part of national highway 1 and and such should be free for all road users.
The new north/south connector when finished will be a testing ground though Frances. On completion motorists will be able to drive from one side of the metropolitan area to the other, a distance of 80 Kms without striking a single intersection or traffic light!
Frances, I am well stocked up on wine here. A friend of mine has a vineyard they started locally in 2003. They were very successful producing some award winning wines. In 2020 they sent 2,000 cartons to tap into the China market just about the time the PM Scott Morrison accused the Chinese of unleashing the Covid virus on the world . This upset the CCP mightily and overnight they put a 215% tariff on Australian wine killing the China market.
Lloyd's 2,000 cartons plus all the rest of that wine shipment from around Australia sat off the port of Shanghai for 9 months as everyone hoped for a settlement which was not forthcoming so, it all ended up back here and has been written off to insurance.
I currently have about 20 x 1 dozen cartons sitting out the back here which didn't cost me a cent.....so every guest gets a bottle of wine with my compliments.......
Each time the stockpile starts to dwindle, Lloyd gets another half a dozen cartons for me. Whenever I drive over to the East I take some cartons for the daughters, tell me you variety of choice Frances, and I will bring a carton over for you on my next drive! It doesn't cost me anything so you might as well be a beneficiary of China's impost as well!
Hopefully that might offset your subsidy of my toll free roads....hahaha!
Cheers.......Rob
