Composition in blue and yellow

No, I wasn't trying for abstract art. At the time I just wanted to finish the roll of film so that I could see the earlier photos. This was taken soon after the kitten and raffia photo, sometime in late 1974.

 The bananas are Pisang Rastali (often contracted to Tali by the Chinese and just called Tali Jiew), a variety hardly seen in Australia because they don't transport well, so are local to an area. More's the pity because there are so many varieties of bananas beyond Cavendish and Lady Finger, each with distinctive taste. These are my favourite variety.

The gas cylinder contained cooking gas, probably a mix of propane and butane. They were supplied by the Esso company. It seems its assets were acquired by Petron in 2013 so this brand no longer exists. The usual scheme was you had two cylinders at home and when one ran out you swapped in the full one and called Esso to exchange the empty cylinder for a full one. This was the cooking fuel for most households. There was no gas line network and the electricity network wasn't up to the load. So it was either gas or the older polluting and dangerous charcoal burners.