Sunny Garden

   

    Near my car, coincidentally, I realised a couple of hundred metres later as the path dipped at the end of the street and I hit the concrete ramp and saw her car again, stopping, behind mine. And I can remember seeing the water flowing out from under the ramp as I ran over it, and seeing that it actually looked like a creek today rather than an empty open drain. Somehow I couldn't tell her she'd rented a place near an open drain. That doesn't seem like a fair introduction to the neighbourhood. (p. 7)

After work I go to Coles. At the start of the day I was carrying a list of things to buy, but it's elsewhere now. And when I lose my list I usually buy toilet paper, just to be sure. Sometimes I end up with an awful lot of toilet paper that way, but I never run out.
    But I usually buy Designer Collection grey, which seems to be absent today. So I stand there, thinking about the cupboard under the bathroom sink. Trying to visualise it, to put a picture in my mind of its stock levels. Meanwhile, singing along to 10CC's The Things We Do For Love on the muzak, and only becoming aware of it a couple of verses in. (p. 18)

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