It's a good day today! Well, I should note that it's raining but even that that doesn't dampen my enthusiasm. No, it's a day to remember, nonetheless. It's the day that I hand over the responsibility of being Treasurer of our Probus Club to some other poor mug. I've just come back from the bank where I deposited last meeting's takings and handed over the deposit book and cheque book to my successor.
He only joined the club yesterday but is already Treasurer of a number of other organisations and has the process down to a fine art and good luck to him.
The problem I found in being Treasurer is that it obliged me to attend meetings. And I am no longer happy to be a slave to duty. I might, in fact, go regularly to the meetings or I might not. It should be a choice I make at the time.
I'm still waiting for the lift chair I ordered more than a week ago. I'm a fan of on-line shopping but, in this case, I didn't have much option. Looking at local suppliers, I could only one (Fantastic Furniture) that had a lift chair to show me, and it wasn't suitable (not really fantastic) so I ordered one on-line, and it was much cheaper too.
The chair left the factory in Melbourne and travelled by air to Devonport where, for some reason, the local carrier rejected it and asked for a replacement. The replacement was sent by ship (much slower) and, on Tuesday, arrived in Devonport where it now sits in a depot waiting for the next leg of its journey.
In some ways I hope it doesn't come today; I'd hate for the electrical lift mechanism to be affected by the rain.
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