16th April - Rump & Ribs - hardware shops - Townsville

Tuesday 16^th April

A hot HOT Townsville day.

Last night Pete, Michael and I walked into town to find a restaurant of Michael’s choice, for dinner.  In the interests of episode #1 – What Did They Eat, I can provide the following photo as evidence:

Lots Of Meat.  We were at a cheery place called Ribs & Rump.  (This would possibly not have been my very first choice but…never mind.)  I had a small fillet steak with many chips and a small sprig of parsley, for vitamins.  Pete and Michael had ribs and MORE ribs.  They were very happy.

This morning Pete and I drove around the light industrial areas of Townsville for many hours.  We went to tool shops and aluminum manufacturers and nuts & bolts emporiums.  Pete enjoyed all of this extremely.  I took of a photo of him experiencing Shock And Awe in a very large tool shop.  This was a strange and wondrous place, magnetically attractive to men, slightly less so (ahem…) to most women.  I was fascinated to find cheery cardboard cut-outs of cheeky chicks with bewitchingly bouncy breasts and cut-off shorts advertising the wares.  I actually think they were surplus to requirement…the men I saw were entranced enough by the proliferation of tools and gadgets.  

I managed to find a nice position to sit and play Words With Friends on my iPhone, wedged on a shelf between a thrilling display of large 7-drawer roller cabinets – Premium or MotorSport.

At one of the stops I thought I would stay in the car.  I took the following selfie seconds after I realised what a bad idea this was…it was blisteringly hot in Michaels golden ute…I think you can see pain, despair and dehydration writ large upon my face.

Tonight I am cooking a very mild red chicken and prawn curry – Michael is bringing some of his army friends, and he says they are curry wimps.