Sunday, July 19th

We need to get some extra furniture for the new unit. There’s a second bedroom for a start and we’ll take the chance to replace some other bits and pieces which are getting a bit shabby.  Jamie wanted to show us a new dining room suite and lounge he and Nera have ordered so we ended up in Harvey Norman, along with dozens of other people, clearly with nothing else to do.

I hadn’t made the connection that there had been a second round of stimulus funding last week and the recipients had all turned up to Harvey Norman to splash out.  I remember, when Gerry Harvey was asked his thoughts on Covid-19, he said he saw it as an opportunity.  His sale of freezers, for example, had gone up 4% and he was going to gather a big percentage of any other money the government doled out.

I don’t think he actually said he was laughing all the way to the bank but that was the gist of his comments.  I know the money is meant to go around but just wish that less of it was going to stick to Gerry Harvey’s greedy fingers.  When the ALP provided their stimulus package in 2008, the criticism was that most of it was spent on big TV sets, probably from Harvey Norman.  Nothing changes.

We’ll probably end up buying the furniture from Hardly Normal because Jamie will add it to their order and negotiate a discount.  I’m past worrying about such unimportant matters.