Once the bitter cold had eased on this fine day we spent some time in the backyard. Suddenly, Tiki exclaimed, “Oh, look at the two parrots in the branches! See how one is brightly coloured? That’s the male. The male is brighter than the female.”
To which I replied, ‘I’d like to get you stating that on tape.’
“Get what on tape?”
‘You stating that the male is brighter than the female!’
Perhaps not! For this afternoon I bought a litre of Berger’s ‘Ceiling White’ at a hardware store in Cremorne for $3.90. That is almost a dollar more than I recently paid for the same amount at Green’s Hardware, in Caringbah.
We dined at K’s Snapper Inn, in Manly. Tiki had calamari as an entree, while I ordered the fried Tasmanian scallops. Both were priced at $2.50. As a main course we respectively ordered grilled bream fillets ($4.20) and a prawn salad ($6.00). I had the pavlova for dessert and Tiki, the banana fritters. Four glasses of orange juice, one cup of tea and one cappuccino later and the entire bill came to twenty dollars.
Our only possible gripe was that Tiki’s main course had arrived before she had finished eating her entree.