Nothing like seeing the Best things in life being celebrated

 Ploughing the peat for all those centuries must have left some impression other than dirty marks on the psyche of us Wends

Wend all our crops failed , they gave us land, but we had no money SO we wend off to wonderful Australia . .

We Lou Modras had no really effective tractors (A steel wheel monster and another with only a drawbar and no linkage arms -- all Fordsons ) when our dad died on the farm in an accident with machinery in 1970 . It appeared to some that we ( the 6 young kids and mum) had nothing , but in reality we had everything we needed . .

Eventually we bought a brilliant Australian made road machine called a Chamberlain ( has a boomerang symbol still on the panels ) .

We yearned for relief and finally it came in the form of that beautiful mechanical beast with 2 seats , power steering ,remotes and three point linkage. Maybe you/yours yearned for relief too ?

Last year I

fixed it up and sold it - to whom I did not know

Last month it came hurtling at 60km /hr towards us on the Hamilton highway towing a new gypsy caravan .

What a double joy- to see it regenerated as i left it ( same paintwork ) for a new purpose and with the ancient Abrahamic promise of "the no home but here" promise over the barge board ( very Wendish ) .

The motto on the caravan ( Its in Latin and follows the emperors line ) reads " I came I saw I tented". Man it was travelling fast . Not bad for a 70 year old !