It's Raining. Again! (Or perhaps "Still!")

I know that Melbourne's weather has a (well deserved) reputation for being changeable but the late spring changeability can be particularly taxing.

The Building's temperature control has been changed from warming to cooling, which was convenient when The Sunday Lunchers were here and the outside temperature was in the mid-30s. It is less convenient today when the top temperature is expected to be 14d. I have dug out a thicker jumper and my proper slippers. I am still a bit on the chilly side.

It rained all day on Saturday, which didn't help my ambition to close my activity rings every day. I didn't leave the flat, let alone the building and I think my step count for the day was less than 2500. I did make a good start on my late spring tidying/organising/decluttering project. I know I have only just moved in and I had a massive declutter before that, but there are things that already aren't earning their place here or that I look at and think I just don't want them. This, alas, is true of a couple of things that I bought specifically for the new flat. I rather wish I hadn't bought the sofa bed from Ikea. I should have just bought a sofa or even a couple of bucket chairs. I won't get rid of it just yet but if I am still unhappy with it in 6 months time I will rethink its future.

It had stopped raining by mid-morning on Sunday and I not only left the flat and the building but I actually left Docklands! I met Freyja and Simon at the Alphington market, where I acquired vegetables, milk, yoghurt, more vegetables,  cherries, lemons, cheese, butter. Then we went for lunch.

Freyja suggested we try Moon Dog World in Preston. I had never heard of it but am willing to give most places a try. It's inside a large warehouse and has a brewery attached. At which point I remembered that I had heard of Moon Dog brews. It was busy with parties and gatherings and fun things. But it is a large warehouse and there was plenty of room for us

It was a lot of fun. I would go there again. But there's also one on the other side of the Docklands Stadium which I would be happy to try. Freyja points out that it doesn't have a lagoon but it does have a small harbour outside so a lagoon might not be an absolute requirement.

It's been raining intermittently since Sunday lunchtime. It wasn't raining yesterday afternoon when Lindsey, who has returned from Canada, came to visit. We walked to the library where I returned my book and enjoyed a bit of sunshine. It was drizzling when we left to meet Freyja and Simon in Westgarth. We had dinner in a new to me Japanese restaurant which I rather enjoyed. It was raining with enthusiasm when Lindsey drove me home. She has borrowed Ziggy for a couple of days because her car key has gone on a little jaunt to NSW. Nobody was intending to drive Ziggy this week so it made sense for her to have it until her key returns home.

It is not actively raining at the moment and I do have things to do. I must make sure I leave the building at some point. I have restarted my "close the activity rings every day" project and so far today I am nowhere near accomplishing it. But it's only mid-morning. There is still time for today's rings.

I have finally finished converting the last  box of photos  into a digital format. I couldn't see any point in having photos in boxes which nobody ever looked at or thought about. I started this project some time ago and was painstakingly scanning them. Scanning photos is a mind numbing task which was made all the more problematic by my scanner's software. I don't have a scanner anymore so I finished the task using my phone's camera which was quicker, much more effective and made it significantly easier to edit them. I do still have some hard copy photos but none of them are in boxes

My next project, I think, will be to sort out the pantry and the closet. This won't be a very onerous project.  I've only been here for not quite three months so they're not full of rubbish. But they do need organising and the pantry could do with another couple of shelves. I need to go to Bunnings at some point.

(PS It's raining again. And the wind is whistling through the trees)