After an early-morning dip in the warm-water pool, we drove to Mollymook for my six-monthly check-up with the dermatologist. All he wanted to know how my leg operation - see here - had healed up which took him all of 5 minutes. It took his wife longer to write the receipt for $120. The miracles of modern medicine!
We had meant to have lunch at our favourite Chinese restaurant but for some inscrutable Chinese reason it was closed today. We tried the only other Chinese restaurant in town and that was closed as well. A Chinese conspiracy? We sought refuge in the Ulladulla Bowling Club which has new caterers with a great choice of several Western and Asian dishes.
who is still a regular reader of this blog, I ordered a large glass of COKE
They've scrapped the table service. Instead, a beeper goes off when the order is ready. What a great idea for my old age: I just wear it and when it flashes, vibrates or beeps, someone will come and take me home!
Of course, I couldn't leave Ulladulla without giving the book sections in my favourite op-shops the once-over. The good ladies at the Lions Club of Ulladulla Lions Preloved Bookshop - to give it its full name! - had a real treat for me: two long out-of-print classics about New Guinea - and how could I ignore a Folio Society edition in mint condition of "The Best After-Dinner Stories"? It was priced at $25 but it's all for a good cause.
Of course, you can read them online here and here, but you'd be missing
out on all that biblichor, the comforting, faint and musty smell of old books.
I leave you with this thought displayed at the bookshop's cash register:
