Travelling to Melbourne, Part II

[blamebrampton]

Ah salmon and leek roesti, you are a breakfast of champions, particularly when one adds a poached egg!

After a startlingly late night for such well behaved girls on a schoolnight, I strolled back to the hotel last night, having caught the right tram and *very nearly* disembarked at the right stop, thinking that it may not be possible there is a more attractive and witty person than
pushdragon in Australian fandom, but since I hope to meet 
meredyth_13 through the course of the day, I may have to declare a tie.

I am reminded again of what an immensely liveable city Melbourne is, and how people have Standards. I was hoping to buy a new skirt, but am quite short, and the shop I went to originally had nothing to suit, despite a very helpful shopgirl. She patted my arm and said "Not to worry, the other girl will know where to go", and asked her friend, also a shopgirl, where the stumpy might be clad.

Shopgirl two not only wrote me out a list of shops, complete with tram stops, but DREW ME MAPS. NB, none of these were related to her chain, just good places to shop that had clothes for the vertically challenged.

Ah Melbourne, you're like that ...

I have a new skirt, a black woolly cap and a red scarf. Very happy indeed! Now off to an exhibition and to see if any of my friends are available for lunch. At home, J and the cats survived the night, but Monster apparently spent the evening pining. When I asked how this was expressed, I was told that she only wanted tummy rubs and shoulder cuddles, or food, all night. I suggested this may be less pining and more taking shameful advantage. He replied that my cynicism had no place in the the world of kitties.


ETA Lost  connection at breakfast, am now at lunch with an EXCELLENT toasted beef sandwich, having spent a long wait to get into the manuscript exhibition and finding it worth every second. THEY HAD MEDIEVAL SELLOTAPE!!!!!

No word from Meredyth, off to meet up with dearest RL friend and her midget. On a tram. Well, they're at the other end of the tram ride, but, you know .

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That's because I have my new Melbourne woolly Alpaca cap and glamorous red scarf, and so I can handle ANYTHING. (Also the rain held off until after I'd queued for 40 minutes to get into the library, which I thought was most kind ;-)

I used to be dragged to a Welsh commune in winter and told to bathe in the stream, this is comparatively quite pleasant.

I'll be more organised when I come back for the Deco exhibition and we can see about making more people drink cocktails!

[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

I used to be dragged to a Welsh commune in winter and told to bathe in the stream

... did you obey?

Cocktails are always a good thing :-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It depended on exactly how grotty I was at the time. My favourite Dad Girlfriend used to boil pots of hot water so the kids could have sponge baths in her teepee out of the wind. Ah hippies, freaks.

[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

Heh. My hippie commune was hopelessly middle class. Running water that was even hot if it wasn't overcast, and as long as you'd carried it up the stairs in buckets to the hot water tank first ... :p

Also, you know, northern New South Wales, not so much with the freezing winters. (And *this* is why I bitch about the cold in Melbourne, oh yes.)

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

when's the deco exhibition?

[*googles*]

[*rephrases*]

when are you thinking of going to the deco exhibiton? i might come up to check it out. [*ponders*]

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I am talking about it with J, will let you know as soon as we have a range of dates. And I am also going to the doctor in the morning as there is something very wrong with my ears after that flight ...

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

hope the ears are doing better. mine ring all the time (granted fairly quietly), but the doc says it's cause i'm getting old. and no i didn't stand in front of any speakers. i was a obnoxiously studious and non-party teen/young adult.

most likely you will end up going while i'm overseas, but i may swing down and see it nonetheless. [*nods*]