A Game of Love
It was an urban wildlife week-end, f-list. On Saturday mornings, my mother comes in and we go for a walk along the beach. There is a particular, sheltered spot where there is a patch of scrub land to the north of the path, surrounded by trees, where we have often seen a wallaby. It sits up watching the world go by, hidden among the grasses. People coming from the eastern approach can't see it all. We haven't seen it for months, but there it was.
Feeling energetic, we extended our walk along the breakwater, where people go fishing. That had drawn quite a crowd for that time of morning, and we soon saw why. There are big metal tables provided for people to clean their fish and toss the bits in the water under the pier, and that had attracted some interest from within the water: two seals, one large and one slightly smaller (a mother and an almost grown pup?), and three stingrays. So that was all very nice.
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
What an oddly phrased topic for today. How do I know if I'm going to forget a memory or not, meme? Tell me that. Anyway, here are four memories.
1. Driving home from work one black, wet winter's night, I had to give way to a horse-drawn chariot, in which Zeus stood, holding an umbrella over the driver. He had a lightning bolt in the chariot with him, all the better for on-the-spot smiting.*
2. When I was little, I had a pair of white nylon socks with stiff lace ribbon around the cuff and a picture of a panda on the side. I loved those panda socks. One day I took the socks out of my drawer and sat on the side of my bed to admire them, then my mother came in and asked, 'Who's my best girl?' Then she took the socks and threw them in the bin, thus traumatising me for life. (She claims I never had a pair of panda socks and that this entire incident was a dream.)
3. My earliest memory is either standing on the garden path and looking at a lilac bush, or getting all the saucepans out of the cupboard and banging on them with a wooden spoon. I'm not sure which came first.
4. In Year 9 science, we had to draw the water cycle. I gussied mine up by drawing some sheep on the hills, and the teacher laughed at them. Which, to be fair, was because I'm a terrible drawer.
* It was the day the torch relay for the Sydney Olympics reached the City by the Sea, so they were probably performers on their way to or from some related event. Or maybe it really was Zeus. We will never know.
Feeling energetic, we extended our walk along the breakwater, where people go fishing. That had drawn quite a crowd for that time of morning, and we soon saw why. There are big metal tables provided for people to clean their fish and toss the bits in the water under the pier, and that had attracted some interest from within the water: two seals, one large and one slightly smaller (a mother and an almost grown pup?), and three stingrays. So that was all very nice.
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
What an oddly phrased topic for today. How do I know if I'm going to forget a memory or not, meme? Tell me that. Anyway, here are four memories.
1. Driving home from work one black, wet winter's night, I had to give way to a horse-drawn chariot, in which Zeus stood, holding an umbrella over the driver. He had a lightning bolt in the chariot with him, all the better for on-the-spot smiting.*
2. When I was little, I had a pair of white nylon socks with stiff lace ribbon around the cuff and a picture of a panda on the side. I loved those panda socks. One day I took the socks out of my drawer and sat on the side of my bed to admire them, then my mother came in and asked, 'Who's my best girl?' Then she took the socks and threw them in the bin, thus traumatising me for life. (She claims I never had a pair of panda socks and that this entire incident was a dream.)
3. My earliest memory is either standing on the garden path and looking at a lilac bush, or getting all the saucepans out of the cupboard and banging on them with a wooden spoon. I'm not sure which came first.
4. In Year 9 science, we had to draw the water cycle. I gussied mine up by drawing some sheep on the hills, and the teacher laughed at them. Which, to be fair, was because I'm a terrible drawer.
* It was the day the torch relay for the Sydney Olympics reached the City by the Sea, so they were probably performers on their way to or from some related event. Or maybe it really was Zeus. We will never know.