Judging by the long queue in front of the cash register at the Moruya Bowling Club's restaurant, it was! At eleven dollars a meal (twelve dollars for non-members), it beats cooking and washing up - in fact, as one regular suggested (a lady from the former Yugoslavia near Trieste who, as she told me in very accented English, comes every day), you couldn't even buy the ingredients for that price.
I ordered bangers and mash - which, incongruously, came with a helping of sauerkraut - and Padma her usual battered fish'n'chips and we settled in for the wait, for which I had come prepared with "Innocent Reader - Reflections on Reading and Writing". I knew I already had a copy which I had read many years ago and which was in my library at home, and so I had picked up this spare copy for a couple of dollar at my favourite Vinnies shop, together with Martin Wolf's "The Shifts and the Shocks - What we've learned - and have still to learn - from the financial crisis".
Debra Adelaide's book went well with the bangers and mash, but Martin Wolf's book will have to wait until I find the time to plough through its five hundred pages. So many books yet to read and so little time left!
