Two days late, but I thought I could knock off two birds with one stone. Tony posted an artefact from the defunct Daimaru, and issued a challenge: find something from a now-gone department store.

Well, here is my kitchen clock.

It came from a shop that was somewhere inside the beautiful art deco Capitol building on Swanston Street. The shop was not huge, but proclaimed itself to be “Palmers Department Store.” They definitely had delusions of grandeur.

I got the clock about 12 years ago, and it’s certainly lasted longer than the store. Every couple of years it needs a new AA battery, but apart from adjusting for summer and winter time, it gives no trouble.

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Here is my garden full of weeds.

The weeds are fairly intelligent of course, and lay down out of the way when they see the mower coming.

I’ve done some weeding by hand in the past week, and those areas look a lot better. But it’s far too much like hard work, so I need to find a better method for getting rid of them. Some kind of mechanical weed destruction device I think.

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Actually the caption says “Driver Licence” … hmm, okay.

Has Victorian government hologrammatic things all over it, somewhat obscuring the picture. No loss really.

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Here we go, celebrating the mundane yet again… here is my local post box, a couple of streets away.

And you get a stop sign and a fire hydrant thrown in for no extra cost — how good is that?!

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The other week I was reading some bit of junk mail that came through my post box, and noting that dish washers aren’t quite as exhorbitantly priced as I thought they might be. When I eventually own a house, I’ll be sure to get one, just to save the dish washing effort. But in the mean time, here is my dish rack…

Fascinating stuff, hey?

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Here is my bookcase. Well, one of them, probably the most interesting one. There are others elsewhere in the house containing CDs and kids books; videos; boring geeky books and magazines.

If there is one thing I regret about my book collection it’s that in early adulthood I was so addicted to TV that I read a lot of crappy novelisations of my favourite TV shows. Most of them were a complete waste of time, when I could have been reading the kind of genuinely imaginative, innovative works that some Real Authors put out. (Currently reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon).

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Here is our Christmas tree, made of the finest, sturdiest green plastic. It’s not a huge Christmas tree (relatively miniscule, in fact), but it does the job. It’s more-or-less adequate for the number of gifts that will find their way under it in the next couple of weeks.

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In a little-used corner of the kitchen table lies the fruitbowl. Okay, so it’s dominated by bananas most of the time.

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