FOWChallenge

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FOWChallenge-Coin

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coin

a flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp,
used as money.
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Samples of our pre-decimal currency.

Front and back of both the

one and two shilling pieces.

Equivalent to the current

ten and twenty cent coins.

Our two-dollar note is out of existence

and now there is talk that its replacement,

the two-dollar coin is headed the same way.

Real money has hardly been used

since the pandemic began.

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Fandango’s One-Word Challenge:…Coin

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FOWChallenge-Real

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real

actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact;
not imagined or supposed
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When MGW ordered a half-size cake she meant,

for argument’s sake,

a 6-inch diameter instead of a 12-inch cake…

…she never imagined that a cake maker

would simply CUT a larger cake in half

to achieve the desired half-size cake.

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Fandango’s One-Word Challenge:…Real

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FOWChallenge-Screw

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screw

a short, slender, sharp-pointed metal pin

with a raised helical thread running round it

and a slotted head, used to join things together

by being rotated so that it pierces wood

or other material and is held tightly in place

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The most frustrating thing about screws, bolts, nails etc.

is that I usually only want half a dozen…perhaps

only one or two.

So off to the hardware store I trot and always

come home with 20, 50 or 100.

If  you have not experienced this you

may well be asking why?

The answer is that all companies making screws,

nearly without fail,

package them in those quantities.

That’s okay!

They will come in handy one day.

And so the 19, 39, or 99 are put in a tin

for easy retrieval when they will be handy.

The thing is that after a few weeks I have usually

forgotten where they live and so it’s back to step one.

I am sure there must be thousands upon thousands

of old screws sitting in Australian sheds just waiting

to be discovered on that handy day.

Trouble is most have been in the shed for so long

they look like the larger of the two screwdrivers. 

RUSTY!

I haven’t the heart to tell these old screws

they are past their use by date.   

Of course I should not be grumbling

because a screw is a screw. 

What you buy is what you get!

What really bugs me is when I

want a few nuts, bolts

and washers and said hardware store

sells them all separately.   

Who would ever buy a nut

without a bolt? 

Or a bolt without a nut?

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Fandango’s One Word Challenge:…Screw