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The Ballantynes bus to Timaru

As we pulled out of Burnside Park at 9am of a Sunday morning Anne, the extremely affable bus guide, accessorised to the max and made up expertly like a porcelain doll, teased us by asking if we wanted to stop off at Dressmart for two hours, while Graham, the driver and only male on the bus, alleged it was his first trip to Timaru: "So don't be surprised if we end up in Picton."

We had chosen a spectacularly sunny day for the journey but the frost that morning had been particularly white and crunchy, leaving our trotters as frozen as ice blocks. Anne assured the packed bus that logs would be thrown on the fire in a jiffy and we'd soon warm up as a chorus of, "Put another log on the fire, fix me up some bacon and some beans", started up. Good grief, singing on the bus already and we'd only just pulled out of the car park!

Our host informed us that throughout the morning we would be treated to talks from guest speakers, ie, staff members who have been ring-bolting from Christchurch to Timaru many times a week since February 22, all happy to take their turn to tell us about product.

Anne told us that a staff member, "Who is our French girl - she's from France" would teach us how to pronounce French apparel labels. We obliged, making a great meal of exaggerating the syllables written phonetically out for us, eg Croisillon  Kwaz-ee-on.

Another staff member delivered a pillow talk about the longevity of different types of pillow and passed around paper and pencil instructing us to draw a pig for a personality analysis. If you drew your pig at the top of the page you were positive thinking, if your pig had no legs you were stupid, and the length of your pig's tail was commensurate with your sex life.

By the time we piled off at Ashburton for a comfort stop, Graham had been awarded the French name of Gigi and was dispensing free ankle rubs to ladies still complaining of cold feet.

All this for 20 bucks there and back with a lunch thrown in and a couple of glasses of bubbly on arrival  talk about value for money and goodwill. Having never been to Ballantynes in Timaru, finding it a replica of the Christchurch store only smaller in size was like reuniting with the proverbial long-lost chum.

How well I remember as a child the pilgrimages to the Christchurch store with my mother to choose material and a Simplicity or Butterick pattern, and perching on the tall beige stools as the lady in black sent the docket and money up the chute to the change department, before it shot back down again.

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