OORAH!

 

"Oorah!"

I had great success today - well, I had to visit four stores but eventually found what I wanted for digging out the crawl space in the basement.

Short-handled digging spade, levelling spade and pick-axe
with padded gloves.

I'll be able to do the job much better than with the normal long-handled tools which were inoperable due to the constraints on space.

The cashier at Bunnings looked at the tools and asked why I was buying such short ones. I told her that I get the little woman at home to do all the digging. She looked at me funny and wasn't quite sure if I was joking or not.

OORAH!