Settling in

Sunday was an absolutely beautiful day.  I went to the local Woolworths, about a 5 or 10 minute walk. It was an urgent mission. The cats had decided that this is an alright place to live but - THERE WAS NO CHEESE for their after breakfast snack! There is cheese now, plus a few other things.The fridge now has a bit of food in it, in addition to wine, milk and water.

I bought a toastie and went and sat by the water to eat it. There were lots of people out walking, some with dogs. There was a running group. There were people rowing on the harbour.

Breakfast view

"I will help you eat that sandwich"

I took the tram in the afternoon and went to Kmart. It's a very big Kmart. It was hard to find things. And in fact they didn't have what I was looking for, which was a particular kind of under-bench storage. However, there is a Daiso next door and they had lots of things that I was looking for. Not the under-bench storage I had in mind, but some shelving which does just as well. I was restricted in my purchases only by what I could fit in my shopping trolley.

Freyja and Simon came around in the evening and we had pizza for dinner. The pizzas were quite big so the leftovers went in the fridge. I must admit that I felt very much like a university student yesterday morning as I sat in my rather untidy flat, eating cold pizza for breakfast while drinking coffee.

I went across the Marvel Concourse yesterday to check out the Coles on Spencer Street and the Asian grocery store opposite it. I might have accidentally got on a tram and gone back to Daiso for a few more bits and pieces. It might not be an absolute advantage having a Daiso quite so close by!

Lindsey came round in the evening for dinner. I made a Japanese style chicken curry. It was the first proper meal I have cooked in this kitchen. This was made all the more difficult by the fact that only one of the kitchen lights works. I can fix two of them myself by buying appropriate light bulbs. That is made more difficult by the fact that they are weird light bulbs and I can't find them around here. I'm going to have to go to Bunnings, I think. The light in the extractor over the stove I can get bulbs for. And I did. But once you put the bulbs in the lights won't turn off. And the last light fitting is completely broken. I am going to have to get an electrician in to fix that and the lights in the extractor fan. (Yes, I did look for a switch. And no, there isn't one.)

Fortunately, I have two wind-up lights which worked well enough for me to cook.

I am expecting an Ikea delivery today, which means I am stuck at home until they come. Alas - I haven't had a "Your items are out for delivery" notification yet which makes me think the comfy chair and footstool may not come until tomorrow. Which will be annoying because I had intended to go to Ballarat tomorrow to collect some/most of the things which have been left behind. Not that it matters. I can go pretty much at any time. But I had booked the service lift for tomorrow afternoon. I don't suppose that really matters either. I can always unbook it