It's been another full day in retirement: an early-morning swim in the indoor warm-water swimming pool heated to a constant thirty-four degrees - just add palmtrees and you think you're back in the tropics! - after which we had our weekly roast at the Moruya Bowling Club. This week I tried my new upper chompers on roast pork with apple sauce. Having a mouthful of pearly-whites again seems to have done the trick because I was greeted with smiles all round; not just friendly smiles but genuine, spontaneous Duchenne smiles.
On the way back we first stopped at our favourite retailer, BETTA Electrics, to place an order for my next WINDOWS 11 computer, and then at our favourite op-shop, VINNIES, where I picked up fifty-three hours of listening pleasure in the form of twenty-two CDs of the audiobook "The Timeless Land" by Eleanor Dark. I did, of course, many years ago read the trilogy, but just imagine closing your eyes and listening for fifty-three hours to the dulcet voice of James Condon (although there's no-one that comes close to Leonard Teale but he's been gone since 1994 as has so much of the Australia I used to love).
