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Freshly painted waiting room.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Renovations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have discovered a hitherto unsuspected strain of house proudness in my character. Zoo station is being renovated. They are replacing the worst termite and rot damaged weatherboards and giving it all a lick of paint. I\u2019m just so THRILLED. I’m very fond of the battered old 1930’s building I work in.
They\u2019ve taken the boards off the waiting room windows and are planning to put in glass. We (the tradesmen and myself) feel that this is a triumph of optimism over experience. However…. Maybe there is some higher plan\u2026??? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of the passengers have asked me if there is something different about the waiting room. Apparantly the huge new window in the wall and the light streaming into the waiting room are hard to notice. Anyway a team of painters have now repainted the waiting room – in exactly the same colours, but it looks so clean and fresh, that I\u2019ve had to point it out to a few of my favored regulars lest they miss its brief moment of glory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not sure this house proudness is going to be healthy for me in the long run. Someone put anti-vaxxer stickers in my new toilets this week and I was furious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Renovations I have discovered a hitherto unsuspected strain of house proudness in my character. Zoo station is being renovated. They are replacing the worst termite and rot damaged weatherboards and giving it all a lick of paint. I\u2019m just so THRILLED. I’m very fond of the battered old 1930’s building I work in. They\u2019ve taken …<\/p>\n

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