Visual diary
Sunday 13th June Market day in Browns Bay, cold wind, heavy rain at 10am. Went out at 7am - still dark, stalls still setting up, browsers flashing torches to view the goods on display. Bought a 1930’s (?) slip-cast female Negroid head ($5), a set of glass measuring instruments ($5), three pieces of Kiwiana cutlery ($3). Gave a new car radio (a donation), a finger-nail drying machine (found in a skip), and several old-fashioned clothes, hat and shoe brushes (collected on Op shop tours) to stall-holder Neville-the-Camera and wife Maureen - who gave me a bag of mandarins from their garden. At noon I helped Bob with the tools stall to pack up - in return he gave me a small vice, which needs restoring - a project for another wet winter day. In the carpark I found two broken pieces of plastic - a crunched orange bottle cap and a broken lid from a takeaway food container; plus a persimmon: fallen from the fruit and vegetable stall and left behind on the tarmac. After...