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Speaker 1: Peter mac is in Peter mac the Collector, very much

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Speaker 1: into your fire memorabilia, aren't you a You went and

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Speaker 1: built a shed that just happens to have a living quarters,

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Speaker 1: a living quarters on the end of it, right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's this fifty to fifty living and shard fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 1: Don't call me the fire engine guy. I may have

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Speaker 1: at one stage had about ten fire engines, actual ones,

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Speaker 1: big ones, but now I'm down to I'm down to

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Speaker 1: really four.

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Speaker 2: At the stage Lorraine finally put it you, you get

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Speaker 2: to a stage in your life where you look around.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I used to think you'd collect stuff and

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Speaker 2: you've got it forever, and now you've got to be

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Speaker 2: careful that doesn't become a burden. And so you have

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Speaker 2: to accept that you'll go through different changes and phases

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Speaker 2: in life, and that your priorities will change, and so

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Speaker 2: you re evaluate things and you make sure that the

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Speaker 2: right people end up with the things that you've got

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Speaker 2: that you don't want anymore. And the next about all

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Speaker 2: you can do, because you can't get buried with it.

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Speaker 1: Is there one piece of the collection, or one momento

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Speaker 1: or something that you had to work particularly hard to

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Speaker 1: get your hands on a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of it found me. But I did a min Tea.

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Speaker 2: I did a Model Tea fire engine, which was built

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Speaker 2: out of an old Model T car and built it

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Speaker 2: up as a nineteen twenty four fire engine. And the

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Speaker 2: lady who I bought it off, the lady and the

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Speaker 2: man who I bought it off, when she had her

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Speaker 2: eightieth birthday, all the family came around and sat in it.

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Speaker 2: So that was nice, that's yeah. Yeah, so that's the

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Speaker 2: stuff I like about it. Yeah. But and I owned

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Speaker 2: one from the United States there for a while, a

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Speaker 2: great big sea Grave nineteen forty nine, massive, big, hairy

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Speaker 2: chested thing. But I'm not just don't just judge me

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Speaker 2: about fire engines. I collect love. That's missus Mac. I've

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Speaker 2: only got one of her. She doesn't take up much

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Speaker 2: room in the sheet and other stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, where's all that sting from my.

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Speaker 2: Dad and the firebergad, I suppose. Yeah, well, my love

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Speaker 2: of vintage stuff and him being in the fire brigade.

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Speaker 2: So I used to go down to the old station

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Speaker 2: Burnett Street in the sixties and help on Sunday mornings

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Speaker 2: with what they call it duty, station duty, and you know,

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Speaker 2: pleading the tires of the old fire engines and all

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Speaker 2: that stuff. People think I'm this fire engine nerd. I'm

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Speaker 2: not really into modern fire engines. They just tracks. You know.

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Speaker 2: They do a great job when I stayed at the

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Speaker 2: art and all that, but they're not they're not my jam.

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Speaker 2: I'm into the old stuff, you know, pre nineteen sixties really,

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Speaker 2: but the old Dennis old the old Denniss and the

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Speaker 2: old Laylands and stuff with a bit of brass and

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Speaker 2: a bit of class. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And some of the old uniforms too, where they used

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Speaker 1: to wear like the big helmets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, with a big combing on

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Speaker 2: top of them at the mohawk. Yeah. In fact, we

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Speaker 2: do a good run of those. We get some reproduction ones,

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Speaker 2: brought them from overseas and we sell them through the

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Speaker 2: Fire Museum and they are very authentic here. They're very

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Speaker 2: very well done here. So we sell them to other

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Speaker 2: brigades and stuff. You know, they might have a member

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Speaker 2: retiring or a gold Star event something, so they buy

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Speaker 2: the helmets. I've asked to present is So that's something,

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Speaker 2: you know, a bit of a plug on the Old

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Speaker 2: show this morning.

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Speaker 1: That is a very fitting segue to what I wanted

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Speaker 1: to bring up with you is I was wondering doing

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Speaker 1: a bit of dooms scrolling on Facebook over the weekend

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Speaker 1: and I came across a post from the Geraldine Volunteer

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Speaker 1: Fire Brigade and they're running this very novel fundraiser at

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Speaker 1: the moment. Your chance to add to your collection here,

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Speaker 1: Peter Mack a fire extinguisher toilet roll holder.

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Speaker 2: Check that out.

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Speaker 1: That's so they've gone and taken old and expired fire

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Speaker 1: extinguishers like you're find in the office here and cut

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Speaker 1: the side of it out. Gosh, that's an idea, and

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Speaker 1: you can go and put your toilet rolls in. There

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Speaker 1: holds up to three large rolls, which is refreshing to know.

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Speaker 1: A smooth, protective edging and chrome plating.

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Speaker 2: But I can tell you that's the first one of

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Speaker 2: those I've ever seen. Good on the Geraldine team. Obviously

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Speaker 2: thinking out that's quite Anoit of actually very very very

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Speaker 2: very clever.

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Speaker 1: Very much so, so the next time the emergency calls,

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Speaker 1: you could be reaching for that. It's just a shame

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Speaker 1: it's not your birthday coming up any times. So it's

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Speaker 1: the thought that can Yeah, I can see that you're

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Speaker 1: a very generous man.