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The price of new ones, in the air conditioned showroom was a shock to the young ones, so we adjourned outside to the "used" ones. It was a stifling hot day, and the heat was reflecting off the concrete car yard.
They liked this small hatchback and the salesman took them for a test drive but first he took us into the cool air conditioned restaurant and told the assistant to give us a free coffee and muffin. He was looking at a car sale here!
While we waited in the cool showroom we were amused by this little number.
It is a BMW Isetta 300 3 wheeler. For more info on it see Bill's blog
The young ones returned but didn't go ahead with the sale as David found it too small. So they tried this Mini Cooper but he had the same problem. Later that day they found the car they want. It is a Mazda hatchback, but they couldn't get finance because they don't have a job or an address. So now they have borrowed my little Hyundai Getz, which is actually big enough for David to be comfortable. See my earlier post
The above is:
Kohei Nawa’s sculpture PixCell-Elk#2 transforms the body of a taxidermied elk, purchased through an internet auction site, by covering it with transparent glass and resin beads. In the process, Nawa dramatically changes our perception of the original creature; the surface of the animal is fractured, magnified and distorted through the images captured inside the spheres. Viewed through this shell, the elk’s textures and colours are filtered through, and dissipated into, myriad individual surfaces, like the pixels on a computer screen. In using these media, Nawa aims to destabilise our sense of what is real and what is virtual.
(a good one for Julie to riff)
The Birthday Bear group enjoy having dinners for each of our birthdays. Instead of gifts we pass around Birthday Bear. He has to be dressed to reflect something of the recipients personality.
Birthday Bear has his/her own blog and would love you to visit here.
Looking down river towards the CBD.
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We headed to the eateries for lunch. (So as not to disappoint Julie, who thinks we do nothing else)
Hugs and kisses goodbye and they are on their way to a new adventure. (bye,bye little car). They will take a few days to get to Sydney as they are going to stop off at beach side towns on the way and enjoy their last few days of holidays. In Sydney,they will stay with their sister Sonya, and Bernie while they look for jobs and an apartment.
function room in the cellars
It is a nice building inside and they have a good airconditioned restaurant, however when we asked if we could just have coffee they redirected us to the cellar door cafe.