This is the story of "Felix and the Fiddle", our first true "Swap":
Way back in the first year of the century we were in South Africa, getting ready to migrate to Ireland. We had spotted some brilliant handmade copper and brass figures of musicians at an art gallery, and thought we would be able to sell them in Ireland. However, having no spare capital was a problem!
We tracked down and got to know the creator of these humorous figurines, Kosie Wium, and got on very well with him. It turned out that apart from being a sculptor, artist and poet, he is also a keen fisherman and offroad driver. At the time our daily transport was "Oscar", a 1976 Series 3 short wheelbase Land-Rover, but we also had "Felix" a 1972 Series 2A long wheelbase stationwagon fitted with a 4.1 litre Chevrolet straight six engine. We didn't use Felix very much, due mainly to his massive thirst.
Sooo, when Kosie starting looking covetously at Oscar, we cheekily offered him Felix - in exchange for a collection of his figurines! He was interested, and after we agreed a value for Felix, he faxed us a list of figurines, using his trade price and adding a few extra, because he's like that. We said yebo gogo, and Kosie went to work on the figurines!!
A few weeks later he visited us for a barbeque, bringing along all the figurines, carefully packed in black dusbin bags!! We gave him Felix's keys, and he went away contented!!
