Auction

The next door property with the 'interesting collections' has had an auction - What a lot of stuff.

Lots of people bidding, some of whom bought boxes of complete rubbish, I wonder what they do with it?

All sorts of hardware, some tools still unopened in their origional packaging, plus 1000's of meters of native timber went under the hammer at a fraction of their value, a friend bought a stack of Rimu and found out after paying $2000 dollars for it had bought 5000 lineal meters which is currently selling, if you can get it at $18 per meter.

I must admit there was a large ammount of tempting items, but my resolve held and I only bid for the things that I knew we could use/need.

All except 1 thing - a small hand printing press!! (made in London about 1890) it needs a little restoration but will make a very interesting 'Object'

We bought a couple of big stained glass windows that will go nicely in stage 2, plus a big pile of bricks, at a bargain price, we now have enough for a brick wall and a pizza/bread oven, all we need to do is build it...

The place was a complete mess, all a bit sad...

The good bit, is his long suffering wife is really happy to be moving away to a nice new house, so he wont have the room, or the reason to start collecting building equipment or materials ever again (maybe).