- We are keeping our fingers and toes firmly crossed that the ship 'OOCL YOKOHAMA' arrives safe and sound in Sydney today - and that all our things are on it...
- The weather Monday-Tuesday was dismal. Reading blogs/articles/news predominantly based in the Northern Hemisphere, it did feel like we were in the depths of Autumn/Fall too - minus the lovely, crisp mornings, and the beautiful colours. I did pine for Montreal, until that was I looked at my phone and it was 'feels like 1 degree' when we were basking in twenty three degrees.
- We walked into downtown Sydney and then bank home again last Saturday; nearly 20km (approx 12 miles) in total. The reason? Why, to buy liquorice of course! As you do...(well as we do, clearly...)
The Rocks market, Saturdays and Sundays 10am - 5pm. Home to great liquorice!
- I try to challenge myself to buy local ingredients in the country we are living in, as it is such a wonderful opportunity to be introduced to new tastes. In Montreal I wasn't as brave as I could have been - I never did buy frozen frogs legs. There was also a fern-type of vegetable, but it was poisonous unless cooked properly, and although I became good at blagging the French language, that would have been a little too risky for my liking. This week's buy were Mulberries: long blackberry/raspberry-type fruits, I don't think they are native to Australia, but I haven't seen them to buy before now. They are like a slightly sweeter blackberry I guess. I'm not mad for them to be honest, but it was good to try them.
- We have been furniture shopping again. This time it was for bedside tables. We were probably overly-excited buying them, as we haven't had proper bedside tables for over two years. In Montreal T did a very good job of constructing a couple from cardboard packing boxes and covering them with old pillow cases. They did the job although mine wouldn't have lasted much longer; as Albie did like to sit on it and so it therefore had a large dip in the top of it, meaning every so often the lamp on it would fall over. This usually happened in the middle of the night; and I would be awoken being attacked by a lamp.