Thwarted

It was quite hot yesterday and Lindsey and I had thought we might take the 109 tram to Port Melbourne. This would have given me a part of the route 109 to add to my Tram Challenge. Plus Port Melbourne has a beach, so there might have been sea breezes. And there are pubs, cafes and other eating places for lunch.

Alas. We were thwarted in our ambition because the 109 was only running to Batman's Park and then you had to walk two or three stops to where the trams were running again.

And it was quite hot! 

So we abandoned that idea and went to the food hall in Collins Square, which Lindsey hadn't been to,  and had lunch there instead, in their air conditioned coolth.

In less thwarted news, the window cleaners came. I knew they were due around now and when I saw ropes dangling down past my windows yesterday morning, I thought it might be the window cleaners. So I pulled the blinds most of the way down and closed the windows.

Brandy and Whiskey were fascinated by the ropes

Until big boots appeared

And then Weird Beings with scary helmets swung into view on seats attached to the ropes. With water. And brushes. And SOAPY BUBBLES

Both cats ran under the dining table. Then the Dr Who Baddies appeared at the Sunset Strip window. And Brandy lay as flat as he possibly could on the floor and S L U N K slowly to the front door and melted under my Granny's Shopping Trolley. (Whiskey decided that I didn't seem to be worried, so he just stayed close around my legs)

The danger carried on down to Level 5 and out of sight. But the ropes remained and  it was quite some time before Brandy emerged from under my shopping trolley!

As a result of This Awful Trauma, Brandy was not best pleased when two strange men appeared inside the flat in the early evening.

They were not strangers to me. I've known Peter for close to 50 years. I haven't known Daniel for that long but I've met him from time to time and we are, I think, good friends. They were in Docklands for an event yesterday and we arranged to meet for dinner at my place. I think Daniel wanted to see if the view from my windows was really as good as my photos suggest (spoiler: it is!). 

It was a lovely evening. I haven't seen them for ever so long. They live in northern Tasmania and I used to be in Ballarat so it was very difficult to meet up. Strangely, it was easier when I lived in the UK and could organise pizza lunches when I happened to be in Melbourne. So a long overdue catch up, facilitated by Docklands being close to almost everything (except, perhaps, northern Tasmania 😂)