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You have to love a country that trades in liquid as much as it does in hard currency.

I did a job this week where I had some turf laid for a customer, but pulled up 17 square meters short… bugger… I obviously stuffed up the measuring.

It was going to be a messy and annoying exercise heading out to the turf farm today to get a small amount of lawn and then trying to get someone to compact it for me.

But the local developers just happened to be doing a huge job on the block next door and had 18 square meters of left overs – and a plate compactor to wack it with.

The cost to get hold of their left overs and wacker?… One carton. Deal!…brotherhood of blood dvd

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This entry was posted on Friday, April 4th, 2008 at 2:26 pm and is filed under Around the place. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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So d’ya reckon those bloke over-order on lawn every friday just so they can get a free carton?

No wonder Satterley charge 300k per block!

Comment by Grendel — April 4, 2008 @ 3:46 pm

Hamo – I’m thinking, what was the total area of the job? 17 square meters sounds a quite a lot, but then I guess if you are laying a footy field size area, then that’s only a little out, like the centre square.

Comment by Mark R — April 4, 2008 @ 4:34 pm

Big job!

But I didn’t originally want the turf part of it and realised I was punting a bit… GUess I lost :)

Comment by Hamo — April 4, 2008 @ 4:46 pm

Another reason Australia is such a great country. A carton of Crownies can pretty much buy you anything. Especially from a tradesman. :-D

Comment by Heather — April 7, 2008 @ 8:49 am

a great example of christian reciprocity if ever i’ve seen one!

i’m new here, and i must say i’m enjoying my visit. i came via the open anabaptism article. good stuff, thanks for thinking and living it out.

regards

Comment by Jason Coker — April 8, 2008 @ 11:59 pm

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