Father’s Day

There are a host of positives being a father of five and yesterday seemed to highlight them all. Books on Cosgrove and Tobruk (Fitzimmons) and the highlight, a family conspiarcy where all contributed to a new Engel 60 litre car fridge for my bush trips!! I would normally say their presence was gift enough and a phone call from daughter in Perth had everyone answer the roll call but let’s face presence is good but a car fridge – thats really good I’m ecstatic. All afternoon I was playing with it boring everyone with a temperature readout as in ‘it is now 2.9 degrees” or ‘look son, it’s bigger than yours’ (20 litres bigger, that is!) and playing with the freebies that came with the fridge. Engel are doing a promotion so freebies included umbrellas, picnic set, stubby holders, a small heating/cooling almost fridge thingie for the front seat and a mob of lockandlock food containers. Mostly made in China but it still looks good. I had been sick with a body purging gastro for three days courtesy of grandson Lachlan, much loved but hereafter known as Typhoid Mary, and was just starting to come good. The day was the medicine I needed. Thanks guys, I’m over the moon. See how easy it is to please an old soldier.