Wednesday (and a look at Thursday)

Wendy came around on Wednesday so we could sort out who is going to look after Brandy and Whiskey during my forthcoming return to Japan.

We were going to go to the food hall in the Collins Square tower for lunch, but as we walked out of Victoria Point I noticed that Rana's Bakery was open.

I have been watching that shop, next to Dokutoku, for some time. It had advertising saying that a bakery was coming for months. Nothing happened. Then I noticed that it was being fitted out, then that it looked nearly ready. Turns out it opened for a soft launch on Monday. Once they get themselves sorted out it will have a proper opening and they will offer more menu choices.

It serves, at the moment, Middle Eastern calzone style sandwiches, pizzas pastries. I very much enjoyed my "meat pie" flavoured toasted "calzone".

I will definitely go there again.

Obviously, we didn't make it to the food hall. Next time!

Lindsey and I had been discussing recently that since I moved to Docklands Brandy hasn't been as vomitty as he was in Mount Helen and Whiskey hasn't been as constipated. This meant, of course, that Whiskey promptly became VERY constipated. I had to take him to the vet. But which vet? There isn't a vet clinic in Docklands. People seem to go to Lort Smith in North Melbourne,  to a vet in Port Melbourne, or they use the Your Home Vet facility. Which I might have done except they didn't have an appointment available until Monday. That seemed a little long to wait. So I booked him in to Lort Smith for Thursday. But they rang and said it should probably be an emergency consultation on Wednesday afternoon.

I put him in the cat carrier, which I sat on a dining chair. I turned around to pick up my keys - there was a BANG. And the cat carrier was now upside down on the floor. This was a bit disconcerting. He seemed to be ok.

I summoned an Uber and off we went to the animal hospital. A couple of hours and over $300 later he was restored to health, none the worse for his fall from the dining chair. We came home in another Uber.

I did not go to my Japanese class on Wednesday evening.

Thursday cats, apparently in sound health:

This was the chair the cat carrier fell from.
He doesn't seem to hold a grudge against it :D

Lindsey contacted me on Thursday. She was doing a flu vaccine clinic. Did I fancy meeting in a pub somewhere  early in the evening for dinner?  I thought that could probably be arranged and suggested we try Henry and the Fox, which I had never been to but whose name I had noticed on a map at some stage.  Following last Thursday's visit to The Builder's Arms which was very busy, I took the precaution of booking a table.

Henry and the Fox is less than a 15 minute stroll from my place and it's rather nice. Also, rather busy

Drinks menu

Remarkably tasty steak and frites

Walking back home across the Bourke Street footbridge

Somewhere else to add to my Places to Eat list. Not everywhere that I go makes it onto that list. There are some places that I simply do not feel the need to go to ever again. And other places which were ok, but there are other, better places to go so they don't make the cut.  Henry and his fox are definitely on the list. I would put The Builder's Arms on it but Lindsey isn't as keen. It can go on the substitute list for now.