Had one night at home which gave me a chance to do two loads of washing.
Then headed out to the club on Friday after work. Stayed two nights, which is actually the first time I've ever done that. On Saturday afternoon I pulled all the utensils, crockery and glassware tubs out, cleaned them, sorted their contents and made labels for it all. Took pretty much all afternoon. Yipe. Sunday morning I finished the job by doing all the cutlery drawers.
Left for Sydney from there a bit before midday.
Feed me!!
Went and visited Dad (he's much the same). Took him some hot chips. Also read him the $#!+ My Dad Says list that I've been working on - sayings and stuff that are distinctly him. He laughed at a few of them which was cool.
Mum did a lamb roast for dinner which was yummy, then we continued on with the workshop. Made pretty good progress on one of the work benches in the workshop. Pretty much cleared a whole surface.
OMG a work bench!!!
Tonight (after a dinner of scotch fillet steak) we continued on and around the corner. Found papers dating back to 1976 - gardening and orchid stuff he was into years ago. And a lot of disgusting stuff hidden up the back which probably hasn't seen the light of day in twenty five years. And a piece of HO scale railway track. And unopened tools. And lots of duplicates of tools. We think he would lose things and then go and buy another one because the old one was buried. Silly really. Setup some boxes - one for screw drivers, one for pliers and cutters, and another for "small" tools. And another one for multimeters - at least four of the things.
Dad installed this intercom so that mum could call dad when he was downstairs in the workshop. Except after a while the voice bit of it died, and only the call buzzer really worked. So for the latter years of its life mum would press the button three times, which meant dinner's ready.
A few trips ago I forgot pyjamas. This trip I forgot my phone charger and house keys. Fortunately someone at work has one, so didn't have to go out and buy a new one today.
Will get some photos into this post later in the week.
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