Outside!

At the risk of sounding agoraphobic, I was a bit worried about leaving the house today. Don’t get me wrong, being stuck in the house for a week has been quite lonely (at times) and restricting (at all times) but, obviously it had to be borne.

And so, this morning we headed into Farnham and I couldn’t help feeling a bit of trepidation. I mean what if my Starbucks family had forgotten my order?

Victoria at the bar

As if!

As I walked in, Sue, Victoria, Serina and Chantelle all chimed in with a “Hi Gary!” and they told me how much they’d missed me and eagerly asked how wonderful my trip was and…well all sorts of things.

Standing waiting for my coffee I told Chantelle about the Japanese toilets. She was quite taken with the heated seats because, she said, in the winter she’ll often sit on her hands first thing in the morning because of the cold seat.

I then sat happily drinking my first silky milk latte for almost two months. I was waiting for a text from Mirinda who was having her eyes tested. It’s my job to help her choose new frames…because she can’t see them without her glasses.

So the text came and I popped sort of next door where she had narrowed the choices down to three. To this total she then added one so it was four. There was a bit of back and forth negotiation between her and the glasses lady (who lived in Melbourne as a young girl many years ago) regarding the thickness of the glass and suitability of the frames.

There was also some discussion regarding the stupidity of people who believe in homeopathy, the cuteness of fairy penguins and Demodex mites which live on everyone’s eyelashes and exist because…well, no reason I can see.

Good job they’re small

Actually ‘frames’ isn’t exactly correct given they don’t have a frame. The new glasses are just lenses with arms attached. I’m not sure what she’s paying for because ‘frame’ there is none. I guess someone has figured out how to charge for designing nothing. Now that’s very clever. Still, they looked very good and her new sunnies are well cool.

After a shop we then returned home where I rested my foot for a bit.

Later in the prevening, given the rain held off for a short while, Mirinda took the girls to Frensham for a lovely stroll around the little pond.