Yes alright alright I was stupid enough to try and get down Stirling Highway on my way home from UWA last night and the normally 10-15 minute journey took me three hours. THREE HOURS! It was so conjested I couldn’t believe it. But it was an experience.
For once I had no books in the car and of course the drive time show finishes early on a Friday for Footy – yawn – how I wished for an internet connection. Three hours. I went from amusement to frustration, annoyance, humour, frustration, resignation and finally hope and relief. How lucky we are normally that there is no traffic to speak of in Perth. This is what happened. This is what happened next.
Do you think this is what DFAT was warning us about?? 🙂
Anyway we were heading out to a quiz night with the Schultz’s and Boyles and Evan was about half an hour behind me in the queue! We eventually got there and joined in after the second round. Luckily for us the questions seemed to get a bit easier when we arrived which made us feel useful. I found them all very hard apart from the two I answered both incidentally on Perth general knowledge… one was when was the Perth Swan River Colony settled? And the other was which suburb is surrounded by Lansdale, Marangaroo, Ballajura and Koondoola (I think)? Highlight between the brackets to get the answers: [1829, Alexander Heights] The second answer was an inspired guess I have to admit.
It was great fun and we came away with loot! We won a table prize of some wine and hats and then volunteered for a couple of spot prizes and won some more stuff. I’m sure that football shaped water bottle will be very useful.
Earlier in the day I caught up with a friend from St George’s days – DV. D will hate me for remembering his nickname in public but for those of you with dim memories – remember Barry Beaver? He now runs a section at the Department of Community Development, has honourary professor duties at UWA and thus we met at the Uni Club for coffee. Now married with two little girls he seems to be doing very well. We had a good laugh and it was great to see him again. The buy viagra in spain herbal erectile dysfunction treatment is now available. Because of impotency, when a man cannot keep his erection for long, it is erectile dysfunction and this generic medicine has several benefits like the branded pill viagra properien all the benefits of this generic sildenafil pill has helped millions of ED patients a lot. The men who are tadalafil levitra above the age of 50 or 55 and are facing some liver or kidney issues have numerous myeloma, leukemia, sickle cell paleness, or some other sort of platelet issue have NAION (non-arteritic front ischemic optic neuropathy) have as of late had a stroke or heart assault . Don’t store order discount viagra them in the restroom. [Hi D]
What was amazing was how important all our reprobate friends at Uni have become. Fancy lawyers, corporate highflyers, captains of industry. Remember Doey? He’s now running the underground tunnel project through the centre of Perth. How did that happen?? 🙂 Dammit – knew I should have done law or engineering…
Anyway we’re off today. I can’t sleep. Got up at 5am and went for a long walk along Cottesloe Beach – well the path above it anyway. So much is running through my head. Things I haven’t done. People I haven’t talked to and should have. Will the house survive? Can I get my orchid to M so that someone gets to see the flowers – yes isn’t that typical – I have an orchid for two years – well lots of leaves anyway- and the week I leave town it sends up not one, but two flower spikes. Huh.
Dippity is awake early too. Very excited. This is her first trip north of the equator – properly north. Singapore at 1 degree north doesn’t really count. But first we have minkey to go to! And I must organise some cash…