My admiration of people has been enhanced.
Yesterday was our regular fortnightly Council bus trip to a local shopping centre where I borrow a free electric mobility scooter to get around. Love it: cruising in and out of shops, getting in everyone's way; payback time!
Unfortunately it has to be returned to the concierge later after knees have seized up, but as I hobbled all of 100metres to the bus pick-up point carrying 2 bags of shopping a lady offered to carry them for me and I was very grateful. On the way she said she lived close by with husband and 3 grandchildren who she was caring for as their parents were on drugs; had done it for 8 years! Otherwise they would have been ''placed"somewhere"
When I recounted this to Bob, our bus driver, he warned she could have run off with my shopping! I ask you! How cynical! An OAPs ham and bacon rolls and a carton of coffee! If a lady dropped the shopping and ran off with me, well that would be a bit different. But I do meet many nice helpful people on these trips.
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Does Legend tours still operate their factory shopping trips around the cities ? Lunch thrown in with the price.
When I was staying in Sydney I made sure I booked one or two then used to spend too much 
Rufus; Two more good news stories!
1. With these 36+C temps my (almost) resident family of maggies are walking around with their beaks gaping. They still turn up every morning warbling away and the heat hasn't dulled their appetites: one chick in particular is still running after a parent to have food shoved down its throat, but I've also seen it feed itself, standing on a piece of bread or a sausage! Their bird bath also needs regular attention; it's quite deep and comical to see them one at a time splashing every where. Ice isn't a problem! Fred, Freda and chicos. I don't know who's who, but I love them all!
2. Went to a presentation by a law firm on Wed. on Powers of Attorney etc
at a Sir Weary Dunlop retirement "village".! 4 storeys and full! And now a Dame Nellie Melba look-alike barely a km. away. We're getting crowded out with "Oldies" and they're not all geriatrics either!
I won the hamper raffle prize !!! But no way will I go into one. They'll have to carry me out in a box.
It's nearly 9.30pm and feels like 30+ out there. Cheers; thanks for your patience!
We have dined out many times at the RSL club! I never won a raffle though.
Steer clear of those retirement villages Rufus - they're full of old ladies!
Actually, I was rather taken with the flat our elderly relative lived in and quite fancied putting my name down for one but then I may not pass the permanent visa requirements these days
contain goodies that you will find useful Rufus?
Glammanana; Don't know yet! I've taken several photos for the family album. It's still wrapped up, but through the cellophane I can make out one bottle, (of red, I think), choccies, biscuits and a jar of yellow Yankee Candle, which Google tells me is the "pioneer of decadent fragrances"! 
Now where can I light that up to my best advantage? 
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