My Day in Numbers – Part 6 (Final)

6 – hours sleep between the getting home from the concert and having to get up again
2 – many hours of more General Public and alpaca stuff
5 – plants purchased
1 – hot corn on the cob eaten
1 - ladybird t-shirt purchased, spots and all
176 – raffle tickets left unsold
1530 – Graham Ross from 'Better Home and Gardens' drew the raffle, after I asked him on teh off-chance
1 - bag of alpaca poo presented to the gardener as a thank you for drawing the raffle
2 – alpaca regional members won stuff
1600 – close
2145 – Hmmm…sleep

My Day in Numbers – Part 5

6 – the day of the week
120 – minutes alone in a marquee defending fleeces, selling raffle tickets, telling people alpacas are cute…etc
120 – the minute I snapped at a lady I had already asked not to touch the fleeces, nicely. Well, she did it again.
125 – the first volunteer decided it was a good time to turn up
10 – minutes of time out and away from General Public
100+ - time I realised that General Public is a twit, again!
1 – mini melt-down
1245 – another volunteer turned up
1700 – closed up and ran away to Sydney were I was to meet with normal, sensible people to see…
2 – great bands, Powderfinger and Silverchair
4 – hours of fun and groovin’ to fantastic music with over
18,000 – other fans who had dragged themselves out to Acer Arena on a Saturday night (see Silverfinger/Powderchair entry for more details on the gig).

My Day in Numbers – Part 4

4 - the number of days I have worked as a volunteer, thereby missing out on paid days at work
8 – hours standing with a cracked heel
2 – curly wurly’s
3 – volunteers turned up
7 – alpacas on display
30+ - ladies with more facial hair than their husbands wearing trackie daks pulled up to their boobs
6 – rain showers
60 – lucky dips, dipped
1700 – closed the tent
1720 – stopped to take some pictures of wild spring flowers and misty views
1740 – home
500+ - dollars taken, the alpaca organisation may actually make back the money it spent on the display.
2200 – the time I plan to be in bed by tonight!

My Day in Numbers – Part 2

‘Cause I really don’t want to be here, I’m going to cronical my involvement in the Flora Fest display in numbers.

839 – the time I got up
900 – the time I was supposed to be at the marquee
35 – minutes late for setting up the display
4 - helpers, three from Taree and Macksville
1 – major downpour
1 – wet passenger seat when I couldn’t wind up the car window
123 – dollars to buy a new car battery, when the old one died
1 – time down Kariong Hill
1 – trip to Bunnings (for tarps and cable ties, don’t ask) and Officeworks for sugar
20 – bales of straw
10 – fleeces for sale
8 – mannequins dressed in groovy Alpaca outfits
3 – males mannequins without pants with everything hanging out (well they would have done, if they had any genitals)
135 – kilometres to pick op the 2008 Alpaca Hmmm… calendar
500 – hot looking calendars
1940 – the time I got home
2 – pairs of trousers of Hubbies that will be on mannequins tomorrow

Don't Drive Tired

- 450 kilometres
- One trip from Sydney to Morpeth, via Gosford and Tuggerah
- 4 times up Kariong hill
- 3 times into Mount Panang gardens to find the marquee missing one side
- 3 phonecalls to the marquee people to fix the tent
- Twice into Officeworks to get ripped off for printing
- Twice into Spotlight to buy ‘display materials’
- Twice into the petrol station to fill up (I will be claiming petrol)
- Once into Big W to buy sweeties, if i have to stand in a cold marquee for four days I want carbohydrates.
- 8 alpaca outfits for mannequins
- 1 occurrence of having the phone put down on me ‘cause I had the nerve to ask if someone had sent the raffle ticket back in the SSAE provided.

8.30am start, 9pm finish.