As to my road mission, I was half right
...I said 7 hrs, and it was 3.5 down, but dummy me forgot about big city Xmas evacuation....5.5hrs home. Doh!
Anyhoo, I went for a new ute hardlid (cap?). My ute has had a 'glass Sportlid the whole time I've owned it, but you can't stick or stack or attach anything to the top of them due to the fragility of the 'glass.
I finally stopped procrastinating and bought an aluminium one. 4mm checker plate, reinforced and with tracks for attachments. Can carry 150kg on top. They're $3.5k and up here new, but this one was near to new, $2k. They never come up, because everyone wants one. Still a ridiculous amount but I'd been saving/overtiming enough to just do it.
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The traffic on the way home was so slow at one point I jumped out and grabbed this outboard propeller flag out of the gutter. Was one of five I saw. C'mon boaties, tie a knot FFS.
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