on September 29 and 30 at the CWA Hall in Moruya"
We've just come home from an early morning in the pool and a long day in the Bay and Moruya where we had a beautiful lunch of silverside doused in delicious white sauce. No idea how they can serve it for ten dollars but they did which left plenty of money for the chardonnay.
Reading the free local rag I found an advertisement by something called www.dontfretpet.com.au (more of this later) and about a big house on a tiny block of land at Mossy Point on sale within the range of $3,995,000 to $4,200,000 - click here. What's this "range" business anyway? Why would anyone want to pay $4,200,000 when the lowest price is already set at $3,995,000? But even more to the point, why would anyone pay anywhere near $4,000,000 for something like this? At least they've got the headline "Beyond Comparison" right because nothing else compares to it in price.
However, all of this was instantly forgotten when I read the notice on the "Your long weekend in the Eurobodalla" page that the Moruya District Hospital Auxiliary was running a Book Fair at the CWA Hall today and tomorrow. Full of silverside and chardonnay, we drove the few hundred metres across town to stock up on books: Stephen Fry's "Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold"; Hugh Mackay's "Turning Point - Australians Choosing Their Future"; "Incredible Journeys - Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation" by David Barrie; "Australian History in 7 Questions" by John Hirst; Daniel Smith's "How to Think Like Stephen Hawking"; Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Age of Reason"; Alan Greenspan's "The Age of Turbulence"; and, to lighten up, the illustrated film companion to "Captain Corelli's Mandolin".
Before I get started on any of these books, I want to check out this dog-minding business. It seems like a clever business model: they charge dog owners between $65.50 to $90 a day to place a dog with some dog lovers like ourselves who receive nothing more than unconditional love from their temporary furry house guest. We would love to have a dog again for a while, so this may be the way to go as long as they only bark and not bite.
It's another long weekend coming up. Driving back to Nelligen, we were heading up against a bumper-to-bumper stream of Canberra cars coming down the Clyde Mountain. All those public servants wanting to relax at the coast after a week of hard work (question: how many public servants work in Canberra; answer: about half!) It looked like Invasion Day - no, not THAT Invasion Day! - but it's nothing more sinister than Labour Day.
