Shopping.

A main purpose of yesterday's trip was so Olivia could check out the Asian food shop, and she managed to find a few things she's familiar with.
The vinegar looks like it may revive the dead but I'm a bit concerned it may have an opposite effect on the living, however I'm assured it's all good.

A breakage for Daisy.

A pivot hole on one of Daisy's vents broke this morning, I suppose warranty would cover it but I have a loathing of paperwork and the inevitable blame game, so after pricing it in Townsville I decided to attempt repair. The assembly is actually about the $20 mark, or 4 times the price in Malaysia but is still fairly reasonable for a car part, well I was told $18-something but I'm thinking they may have naughtily omitted to include GST.

I decided on my old Jimmy style wire melted into plastic. This was the start as well as the end of the easy part.

 Then bend it a bit and hope for the best.

A miracle is that it actually works........for now.

The vents look normal again now.

At last Daisy has a little drive.

Between Olivia and Jimmy our health has limited us to only clocking 1536 km on Daisy over seven months, today we did our first little trip for a while.

 We went to Townsville but even then I'd forgotten some of the things I wanted to do and was way too tired after a while anyway. Here we had a quick stop at Jezzine Barracks which is now open to the public and looks like it may be well worth our while to give it a good look when we're fit.

From the shore there's a top secret military golf ball at Pallarenda on the left, Bay Rock in centre pic, and West Point of Magnetic Island on the right.

  Here midget Jimmy appears very relaxed checking out this man sized cut-out.

Cyclone Nathan claims a victim.

The few gusts of winds we copped from being on the fringe of Cyclone Nathan blew this palm tree over.

No drama it's been added to our burn pile, soon its carbon will be freed so it can help the growth of new palms.

Window film.

The roll of 15% tint reflective film arrived today and Olivia spurred me into action immediately and did a mighty job of helping and supervising Jimmy so the job wouldn't look too rough.

Apart from blocking 65% of heat rays from the sun it also does a pretty fair job of blocking eyeballs from outside. The sun doesn't get much of a chance to attack the upper part of the window, so naturally I didn't bother with it. That's an Olivia hand above the film.

We had enough to do a front window too and since the job met with our approval we shall order some more to do the other half of the house.

I hate these fancy hard to open bottle caps.

But at least they can be trimmed so they can be opened before the bottle gets hurled out the window.

Moon and Venus.

The Moon and Venus greeted me when I exited Coles at dusk, so I took a photo.
It seems Mars was besides Venus but good luck seeing that.