Buses

Sunday 27th May

Visitors from home have become like buses; you wait for ages and two come along and all that. I reckon the bottom photo is one of the best I've ever taken.

Jayne and James have arrived in Sydney en route to Auckland so we arranged to meet them for dinner at City Extra, which turned out to be a poor choice because since we last ate there, they've had a kitchen fire. These days they're making the food in Parramatta (25kms away) and driving it over here to be microwaved. The famous broadsheet newspaper menu has been reduced to the proportions of a brownies' newsletter.

We went to the Lord Nelson instead then headed over to the opera bar for more booze. Unlike us, they have neither a job nor a toddler awaiting them at half six tomorrow morning. Eventually we called time before I fell asleep in my cocktail.