Shhhhh – be very very quiet.
I’ve snuck into the office to use the satellite internet connection. It means I can post some photos.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Here is the shop I am managing. Or mis-managing.
Not that there is a lot of stock on the shelves at the moment. A new order is being prepared but whether the truck can get across the flooded rivers and boggy roads is in the lap of the Gods.
Fruit and Veg is almost a long lost dream. A few cabbages, two half celery’s and some wrinkly capsicum remain. Potatoes and onions sold out last week and oranges and apples disappeared just as I arrived.
Milk is now powdered as the fresh milk has sold out.
As have the bread and the eggs almost all of the breakfast cereal. Fruit Juice and soft drink will be gone by Wednesday this week.
At least there is still plenty of meat and for some reason we have an abundance of frozen Ham and Pineapple pizzas. We also have a few boxes of frozen Kangaroo Tails, a delicacy amongst the locals.
I am fast learning how to prepare for shortages. I am making sure my own pantry is stocked up with essentials.
Of course, if the truck cannot get through, we will resort to the good old standby.
An Airforce Hercules Airdrop.
It will be fun chasing those parachutes as they float away in the breeze.
The time scale here seems to be flexible. I may be here for another fortnight or a month or even another two months.
My Bank Manager will love me if it is another two months!
I only hope that by then I will still have some readers here on the weirdest blog in the blogoswamp.
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So cleaning out the fridges and freezers doesn’t involve a lot of unstacking and restacking?
And watch out for those RAAF food drops. I cannot remember exactly when it was (I think it might have been early in our East Timor involvement) but a young boy won the race to be closest to a pallet of rice when it landed. He was killed when it landed on top of him.
Ick! Mike, that’s not nice. Were you in East Timor at the beginning?
I’m a hoarder…I love stockpiling canned goods.
And I’m a supporter of eating locally — see exhibit ‘A’, the vegetable fridge picture above.
Have you heard of the 100-Mile Diet? http://www.100milediet.org
“for some reason we have an abundance of frozen Ham and Pineapple pizzas”
This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Pineapple on pizza! *shudder*
What a coincidence. I Just finished writing a post about what is in my pantry and come over here and find the contents of your shop. Hmmm.
I’ve heard of the 100 mile diet, and we try very hard to do just that. I’d say probably 65% of what we eat here comes from within 100 miles of here. A lot of it comes from 100 yard of the kitchen during the summer.
So this is where you are hiding! How I wish I could turn up as a customer and surprise you! Still, we both have to face the fact that this is profoundly unlikely!
Mike, I had heard of that incident. Not good!
Lori, out here you have to have a stock-pile in case of a cyclone. That can put your next shop back by two or three months!
az, good to see you here
We Aussies have some interesting tastes. I grew up with ham and pineapple being a food pairing so pineapple on a pizza is not unusual. Beetroot is another item we must have in an Aussieburger!
hmh, that 100 mile diet sounds interesting but out here, it would guarantee a very strange food platter – wriggling grubs, bush tomatoes, bush turkey, camel, kangaroo, bush onions, ground acacia and spinefix seeds for flour, assorted tree gums and nectars. And no Gin!
Litlove, You would be more than welcome here although it would be interesting to see you in this environment. It is fairly cool at the moment, only reaching 35C during the day, but the flies and mosquitoes are over-abundant! The dust is also a challenge and the local language is nothing at all like French