stone the crows

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mar 27 flight day freezing cold nite. turned to cold bright day. cold still. entered high court five members sitting on matters including tax. most enjoyable after chill lakeside wait for nine fortyfive opening. barby and pack. what would i need? or forget. pre flight angst. parking em's front yard and walk to fourfifty aged ride to airport. first stoped in pine park heard the chortle of some birds, call of the crow. canbra time. cries of pink galah. cyclers and walkers. traffic in the backdrop.
mar 28 time with kate. dinner at sati's mother india restaurant.
mar 29 breakfast with kate. sailing at rpyc. long chat with dennis.
mar 30 visiting friends. family dinner for kate's birthday.
mar 31 rain. all day. lunch with kate. got will form. library read. finally cleared at five.
april 1 fresh clean air clear sky parkedup coombe reserve mosman park. i'm feeling so conflicted by being here where i lived so long. near kate and that wonderful bond. river still now. bright sun. writing about it seems to make it worse. shine a light on it, focus on the pain. better to avoid it, get on with 'things', see my accountant, read a book or the paper. so i've at least don the minimum and documented it. check safety deposit box. visit pennant house stewart who got ten large ten burgee and ten handwaver. ta mate.
april 2 coombe quiet. williewagtails and ducks with green patches on sides. paddlers and 'eights' from various schools practising. jets overhead and the dull throb of the city on its way to work. perth growing at incredible rate 2.4% resource riches. meads mosman park just kate and i on the river and split $24 brekky for 'good deal'. spruiked some handwavers then sailing rpyc totally excellent me old mates around the river holding off 'black smoke' with constant attnetion. we flew sc&b off the backstay. made mistake of only coming west for nine days. should have been month! several people saying knew of flag from stickers. cumulative effect working in w.a.!!!!
april 3 i'm 63. howling easterly the coombe. brief spruik freo for large and five handwavers. arvo swim cott main to pylon with kate. brisk. having such a great time i'm seriously bummed out at not staying longer. weather perfect. evening with brisbouts discussed planting foreshore.
april 4 freo t-shirt bloke copied sticker, printed shirt and hung for display! be still my soul sitting cott hotel beerside blue grey cloud cover over our w.a. sunset shining thru in awesome still shimmer oh i love this space. tears wet my eyes, my optometrist said they needed lubrication. lorikeet chatter. stickering in carpark the dream still lives!!! blond diva belting out emotion. majesty of the west. dinner with friends.
april 5 rain, incredible rain again for perth this time of year under a heavy grey blanket of cloud. bright but. nite flight after yu byut day w/kate lyn's party mt lawly and shilo(now mother), jade, belle w/tatoo
april 6 canbra got car. at yc - a race! spruiked and got ride. we flew burgee. beer, hot shower.
april 7 stone the crows. package delay? barby parkup old spot, bloke needed oil, pepper, salt and scraped clean. he gave me chops, beer, juice, dried fish, bread, tomato!!!!!!!!! subdivided in merimbula. she'll be roit moit, she'll be right! regatta batemans bay anzac days. thoughts of stewart and charly. on this cloudy slice of haven lakeside. frost in canbra three days ago. dodged a bullet. coast warmer if necessary! pair of wattlebirds in dead gum. must plant here.com. crimson rosella. kicked in ankle outside national library by bloke with strong english accent. i bled. in the evening when leaving encountered sedate librarians from around the world in the lobby. shared a 'bird cage' red with chinese bloke broken english.

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