Decided to follow my gut and collected the Delica from Jan and Ross up in Hervey Bay. They were SOOOO good to me – despite the fact that they had me packing up chairs in the rain after a wedding service in the park an hour after I’d flown in. Oh my god. The humidity. …
Our first and primary focus on our arrival in Manly was the deadness of our generator. Oh the woe. I think I mentioned it got washed over in a wave on the way to Lord Howe Island, and never recovered. Well, the engine still runs very well, but it NO LONGER MAKES ANY POWER. Which …
I write this a little belatedly, but I want to document our first bit of time spent in Pittwater (not counting our very brief visit last time. For anyone visiting on a boat, save yourself the trouble of looking for a public/courtesy mooring. There are none. It is well known that you can borrow moorings …
Belatedly, I have realised that the area we are in is called the ‘Northern Beaches’. A few years ago longtime friends of our disentangled themselves from Melbourne, where they’d lived for more than 20 years, and upped and left for Narrabeen – which is apparently not too far from here. Their move perplexed me – …
The glory of the morning was our visit to an op-shop in Glebe where I snaffled a possum merino jumper for $18. THIS EXACT JUMPER!! We had left rather late and noodled our way through Glebe: light-rail, train and a bus got us to Bondi Beach. Excuse me if I don’t rhapsodise about the beach …
FINDER’S KEEPERS MARKET, OPAL CARDS AND TELESCOPES {NOTE: – I am happy to report that this Mother’s Day was a vast improvement upon the previous one.} The decadence that is waking up on the water in the middle of Sydney on a sun drenched autumn morning. I like it. M keeps telling me we can …