Sunny Garden

    I'll be back soon, I think, I tell her. I'll probably have uni to get ready for. Are there any good movies coming on at the Schonell?
    I don't know. I haven't looked.
    It's been a while since I've seen anything so it would be good to go. Maybe we could go if there's anything good on when I get back (p. 145).

   

    In Noosa with my mother we don't stand out from the crowd. We take Hastings Street at a browsing pace and stop for coffee at Aromas. We sit under an umbrella in the heat of midday and nothing's moving quickly. We both drink more water than coffee (p. 146).

I still feel like the host, and that seems like a host's job, checking to see that long conversations don't involve at least one party being bored senseless. But they're firing. Len's talking about his parents' honeymoon for a week just near here, when the options for travelling from Brisbane were by boat up the coast to Military Jetty, or a long and arduous journey over unmade roads, with patches of sand that could take a winch to get you through (p. 157).

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