The week that was

You know the little joke that goes "What is worse than finding a worm when you bite into your apple?" and you answer, "No, what?" and the person telling the joke says, "Finding half a worm".

Well, I came to think about that when I had lunch with my friend A in Glebe the other day. We had a great meal in a very small Thai place and afterwards we just wanted to use the bathroom before leaving. It meant going through the kitchen area and I felt happy that I had not seen it before eating. It was pretty grotty. While waiting for A, I stepped outside into the little alley way and this is what I found there just outside the kitchen.

Maybe being a vegetarian isn't such a
bad thing.

Anyway, other than that we have had the usual intensive house search going on every weekend and we have managed to narrow it down now both concerning the area that we both prefer and other criteria.

The weather has been very hot and sometimes very windy. Just this morning I heard that a friend of our son lost her property out in the bush in the bushfire. She had made it into a real little paradise far from civilisation, way out in the wilderness. I hope she has the courage to build it up again.

Australia Day is coming up and as always there is a bit of controversy about it. Indigenous people are not happy with celebrating the day that their country was invaded and their children taken from them and that is totally understandable. I am including a calendar of significant aboriginal events in the year.

My home country, Sweden, also has a fairly large group of indigenous people in the north. I am a little ashamed to admit that I know very little about them. However, I watched the Swedish annual film festival this year and there was a movie there that I would love to see called "Sameblod". It was nominated in eight categories and won the Guldbagge (the prize in the form of a large chafer) for best script.

Sweden is a relatively small country but very long, so for people like me from the south west it is a very different land up north and also not so common for people of my generation to have visited. However I would like to visit during the time of the Northern Lights.

Another thing I would like to visit is the big Sapmi market in Jokkmokk.

 

I have to leave you now and get some chores done. It doesn't look so good when hubby comes home from work in the evening and the bed isn't made and I am still in my night gown.

Have a good rest of the week!!!!