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.
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 bacon, eggs and three cups of Yorkshire tea I went across the road in the continuing rain to the library where I found a free copy of Bruce Chatwin’s “Journey to Patagonia”:
“What’s that?”
“A piece of brontosaurus.”
After reading a couple of chapters I looked through some of my recent Coromandel beachcombing finds and scanned an encrusted divers glow-stick:
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