Walkabout

We had a day of girly adventures today.  We started by me laying down the law and offering monetary rewards for domestic help and a big cleaning blitz, then we went to Balmain and went to the market where I bought cat grass and two beautiful linen pillow slips for $15.  The chocolate shop, Belle Fleur, offered more enticement for them and they vowed to save their pocket money to buy their dad an Easter egg shaped like a grand piano.  I was attracted by the chocolate asparagus spears...  Then on to the city for Kinokinuya where we marvelled at the Japanese stationary and each bought something tiny and frivolous.  It's a great bookshop too and I bought the latest Alexander McCall Smith and a book of ee cummings poetry.  We ate a late lunch here.  We had an abortive attempt to buy first season Buffy and had to settle for season 5 Charmed.  Then grocery shopping where I bought beautiful figs and peaches and felt melancholy at the end of summer fruits.

Late this afternoon, I ironed and ironed and folded laundry and put things away.  I made nachos for dinner since we had eaten a late lunch and am watching television with a glass of pinot noir and thinking about autumn and making some changes.

I feel I am on the cusp of change again.  I felt really melancholy at work last week.  I had some unpleasant confrontations and wondered again about the direction of my work.  My ex-husband has resigned from our company after 7 years.  I moved to Sydney in large part to separate our orbits and it occured to me that his departure offers some other alternatives for me.

I liked this story.  But then I am so sentimental.

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[Nganga]

Thanks for sharing