To Melbourne for A(nother) Market

Lindsey and I went to the Big Design Christmas market at the Exhibition Building on Saturday.

The weather forecast was abysmal! We might have considered going on Sunday instead, except that we had arranged to meet Freyja and Simon and they weren't available on Sunday. Lindsey had plans for Sunday, which could perhaps have been moved to Saturday. But we decided that we weren't going to be outside all that much and we would go on Saturday as planned.

We took the train down. I was gazing idly out the window and watching grazing sheep emerging briefly from the fog, trees looming and disappearing, mountains glowering through the clouds and mist. It was not unlike taking a train through the middle of England at the end of November! Strangely disconcerting, given that we were heading through Victoria at the start of summer, not Derbyshire at the start of winter.

Lindsey's photo, through
the train window

Fortunately, it wasn't raining too badly when we arrived in Melbourne and took the tram to the Exhibition Building.

I enjoyed the Design Market. There was more there that interested me and caught my eye than in the Finders' Market in October, and much more than in the previous Big Design market we went to. It was very crowded in the centre of the building, but not too bad around the edges. There was plenty of seating, in addition to the tables in the dining areas

We stayed for about an hour and a half, then wandered to the John Curtin pub in Lygon Street where we met Freyja and Simon for lunch. On this occasion we did not eat outside! I remembered not to order the loaded fries just for me, although we did order the vegan loaded fries, which we could all share - and very nice they were too. 

Then Lindsey and I came back to Ballarat.

A good day.

We went out to Wendouree yesterday morning so Lindsey could have a hair cut and we could do some shopping. I needed cat supplies and a few bits nd pieces. I did not need vegetables. I have changed the veg delivery from once a week to once a fortnight and it would only let me have a delivery on Saturday, a mere four days after the delivery on Tuesday. I am busy processing vegetables so as not to waste too much.

Brandy, helping me to put my summer night shirts away:

Starting to prepare for Christmas:

A rather large echidna, having its dinner in the Federation University forest on Tuesday, early evening. Fortunately, it wasn't on the road and was supremely uninterested in me watching it from the car. Much too busy concentrating on the tasty morsels it had discovered