Huttonian is running out of Oz time. Off to Melbourne on Thursday and on to Hutton via Singapore, Heathrow Edinburgh and Fife’s Taxi on Friday-arriving sometime on Saturday. The vagaries of time travel means that it takes two days to fly to Australia and only one day back. Friday will last 9 hours longer than usual as we will be flying with the clock. So although leaving Melbourne at 6 pm ish on Friday and arriving 6amish at Heathrow doesn’t sound too bad adding the 9 hours time difference makes it a hellish long trip. The only break in the monotony is an hour and a half at Singapore airport, 2 am body time and you could be in any airport in the world for all the difference in the scenery.
The wife follows a week later so it will only be a short period of self admin and the hazards of the 9 items only checkout once more. At least checking out will be a doddle compared to supermarkets here. Never less than twenty minutes on an average day. The only fortunate ones being the lightly ladden as they have a choice of 12 items or less or under 8. So there is that to look forward to. And lying in until 7-30 rather than struggling up at sparrowfart to help look after the grandson who rarely stays abed after 6-15. But it will be sad to say good bye to him and to KE who is all of three weeks today. A great reunion is planned for September in Hutton.
The wife's birthday was celebrated by a lunch in the revolving restaurant at the top of the Telstra Tower -680 metres above sea level. It was slightly disconcerting to find that it was the outer ring of the restaurant floor that revolved, not the whole room. Thus not only did the scenery move past at a stately pace but also amenities like the loos. Thus you were in danger of losing your table if you stayed in the lavatory too long and found a complete set of strangers at what you thought was the table you had recently left. The window sill also was on the move. A drink left carelessly there took 55 minutes to return to your side-if with so many thirsty customers it returned at all.
