After more demon-related nightmares (stupid film!) I woke up late again, so everyone had gone to work by the time I got downstairs. I mooched about a bit, sorted out my washing, had a cuppa and headed off out. I spent the morning having a wander down the Thornbury High Street itself, looking in the little shops and marvelling at how some of these businesses can actually stay afloat! Some of the shops are very strange, quite random and I just don’t know how they can make enough money to keep going in this day and age, as Thornbury is only a small suburb – some examples of random shops; tv/radio rental, wedding favour makers, shaver menders, comic books, artificial eye services (honestly!); I guess they’re specialist shops that people must go out of their way to visit.
Having had a look around, I found a tram stop and went back to the city, where once again I wandered around ‘real’ shops! I popped to Little Cupcakes and bought a box for the Ascot Vale gang, then hopped on a tram to go and see them.
It was lovely being back in Ascot Vale and as I expected, Becs and Sarah were super excited to see me come up the path with the now-familiar box from Little Cupcakes! Ewan came over too, so it made for a veritable party atmosphere! After a cup of tea and cupcake, we spent the arvo watching silly tv programmes, the Tour de France and then in the early evening Gremlins 2 (of all things). The latter was fuelled by beer and offered plenty of opportunities for the four young’uns to tease me (as the original film came out the year they were born!), but I gave as good as I got!
Becs made a delicious lasagne for dinner, which was superb. We watched tv, carried on chatting and drinking beer until it was time for me to head off. It was sad saying goodbye to them yet again, but I know it won’t be the last time I see them.
After hopping on the tram to the city, I met Niamph and Matt in the Young & Jackman’s pub. We had a couple of pots in there, before we went upstairs to see the famous painting of a woman which hangs there – apparently years ago some US soldier tried to slash the painting and got beaten up for even attempting to do so (he failed).
They then took me on a bit of a wander around the city, it looks so pretty at night. We went to a really fantastic bar on the roof of one of the buildings on Swanston Street. It was a heck of a climb up all the stairs to get there, but the views from the top were well worth getting puffed out for! I was gutted that I had forgotten my camera, as the lights across the city twinkled so daintily. We had a couple more drinks there – this time moving on to cocktails – chatting and walking around, looking at the city from each side of the building. It really looks so different from so high up! The walk back down the stairs wasn’t as difficult!
The others were a bit peckish so we went to a really well-hidden dumpling house off a side street which was off another side street (you really wouldn’t come across it by accident!) but clearly it is well-known to much of the Asian community, as it was super busy. We ordered some beers and a couple of different types of dumplings – it is kind of like dumpling-related tapas! Having had dinner already, I wasn’t hungry, but did try a pumpkin cake which was delicious!
We then found a tram and headed back to Thornbury, where we found Christie asleep on the sofa! A cup of tea later, we headed to bed.
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