Meanderings: Market and Lunches

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Market and Lunches

So I did go and collect my picture frame from Kmart on Friday. I went to Daiso and the pharmacy while I was there. The picture frame is going to be more complicated to use than I was expecting and hanging it is going to be - erm - difficult. I shall ponder.

Saturday was cold, gloomy and slightly damp. I went to the supermarket and to the library to return a book and to collect another one.

Sunday was lovely and sunny. It was also the second of the most recent iteration of the monthly Docklands Farmers' Market. Lindsey, Freyja and Simon came over to inspect it. We went over at about 11 and it was very busy. It has much the same sort of thing as the Alphington market with a few extra things and more food trucks. They do need to sort out the queue control. Trying to get past very popular stalls to their neighbours was quite hard. I had to practically push out the way people who were queuing for the pie stall so I could get to the cheese stall. I came home with mandarins, apples, lemons, potatoes, lots of vegetables, flowers, dried apricots. My Granny trolley was full.

Then we took the train to Brunswick, where we met Ian and had lunch in the Cornish Arms. This is a good pub for us because it has full omnivore and vegan menus. It's also easily accessible to all of us by train, tram or bus. Freyja and Simon introduced us to an interesting little tofu shop in a back street near the pub. They make their own tofu and tofu derived products. I think we enjoyed the black sesame tofu donuts the most, although my slice of black sesame chiffon cake was also delicious.

And then we all went back to our respective homes.

I had a fairly quiet day yesterday. Wendy came around at lunch time and we went to Rana's bakery which is next to Dokutoku and sells Middle Eastern bread products. And I caught up with some Masterchef episodes in the afternoon. I started watching it when this season first started and then went away and got busy and life happened. I have lots of episodes to catch up with.

I have a Japanese class this afternoon. You may remember that I started going to classes on Wednesday evenings, from 5:30 to 7:40. I enjoyed the classes but I did not enjoy going out at 4:50 for an evening class. I definitely remember when I was a teenager being told that older people prefer not to go out in the evening if they can do whatever it is during the day. I scoffed at this. I was definitely always going to be an evening person. And I suppose I might well have stayed an evening person had I not married a builder and perforce turned into a morning person. I get up between 5:45 and 6 most mornings and I no longer fire on all cylinders in the evenings, especially when it comes to learning things.

The school has a class at 2pm on Tuesdays so I arranged to transfer to it. It does mean that I drop back two terms worth of learning but that doesn't particularly phase me. It absolutely doesn't hurt to do things several times. All the classes at this sort of level are at about the same level as my online classes anyway.