#2046 Friday 14th January

 Rejoice with me!  .... for the lost is found!

For some time I've been searching for the battery charger (for car batteries).  I had used it about 6 weeks ago and in my usual way I had stored it in a place which must have been very sensible to me at the time .......  and I have been searching for the charger ever since.  This evening I was in the shed and my gaze fell upon a tool box I had recently acquired and which was still empty (I thought).  Says I "I'd better look in that box just in case" ..... and there it was!

I needed it to charge up the battery that I use for working on the Series 2A Land Rover......  and while searching for the charger I also found several very useful parts that I'd forgotten I had.  These are the hose sections which join the fuel filler neck to the fuel tank. The join is a very usual shape and size that can no longer be bought .... so I've been nutting over how to make a replacement..... and Hey Presto!  Problem solved.

My recounting of this saga is in part due to events of today....   Today was Friendship Club for Kaylia. (This is an activity group in Fremantle)  I drive her down to Fremantle and then fill in time in case I'm called on for a premature end to the day.  Today was such a day.  By 2pm Kaylia was asking for "Daddy" .... I thought at first that she must be having a bad day .... and then I realised that on Wednesday she had wanted to visit Op Shops on the way home from Fremantle .... and the shops were already shut at 4pm.  So now I realised that Kaylia has figured that if she calls me to get her early, then the op shops will still be open!  S-N-E-A-K-Y!!   Of course such clarity of reasoning deserves a reward .... so we stopped at the op shop on the way home.

While waiting during the day I had visited my older brother Peter.  It was a good time of nattering .... and I was rewarded with a copy of the updated version of his book on the history of the Croft family ..... this updated version no has all the old photos in excellent colour (these photos are 40's and 50's vintage and were black & white in the first edition of the book)  The difference is stunning.