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Plates of books
Monday 4 Apr 05
Canberra, the foyer of the National Library of Australia. I’m waiting here for Felicia-Fairy and Peggysmum for a farewell lunch before I set off. Hungry for lunch, hungry for Bookcrosser company, hungry for travel.
[later] We had a fine time, though perhaps I am carrying around a few too many journals for people to write in! Once again those bright yellow totebags prove invaluable in Bookcrosser recognition – Felicia-Fairy had never met me before, but she spotted me from across the carpark! F-F is a travel monkey herself, taking several months off to go around Australia with her partner in a van. She’s been all over, and this isn’t her first trip to Canberra. I was in New Zealand when she came through last, so she may have made a special trip to see me. It’s good to see her. She’s off to Cooma in the winter snowfields tomorrow, though she’ll see precious little snow there at this time of year!
And Peggysmum is good value any time. She’s a manager in the library system here, and I am a big fan of Canberra’s excellent library system.
We had fun, and the tucker was good in the library’s “Bookplates” café. Bookplates, get it? Books piled up and were swapped, and we all knew each other and the latest gossip.
And then off home. My daughter had the car and had dropped me here, so Peggysmum was doing me a huge favour by giving me a lift home. Saved me a good half an hour I badly needed to finish packing and stuff. She had a bit of time before a medical appointment, so it was no skin off her nose apparently. I gave her the book I got from Jill about a madam – “No Bed of Roses” was the title, apparently because the author had had a lot of pricks in her bed. Peggysmum started reading it at the acupuncturists.
Canberra, the foyer of the National Library of Australia. I’m waiting here for Felicia-Fairy and Peggysmum for a farewell lunch before I set off. Hungry for lunch, hungry for Bookcrosser company, hungry for travel.
[later] We had a fine time, though perhaps I am carrying around a few too many journals for people to write in! Once again those bright yellow totebags prove invaluable in Bookcrosser recognition – Felicia-Fairy had never met me before, but she spotted me from across the carpark! F-F is a travel monkey herself, taking several months off to go around Australia with her partner in a van. She’s been all over, and this isn’t her first trip to Canberra. I was in New Zealand when she came through last, so she may have made a special trip to see me. It’s good to see her. She’s off to Cooma in the winter snowfields tomorrow, though she’ll see precious little snow there at this time of year!
And Peggysmum is good value any time. She’s a manager in the library system here, and I am a big fan of Canberra’s excellent library system.
We had fun, and the tucker was good in the library’s “Bookplates” café. Bookplates, get it? Books piled up and were swapped, and we all knew each other and the latest gossip.
And then off home. My daughter had the car and had dropped me here, so Peggysmum was doing me a huge favour by giving me a lift home. Saved me a good half an hour I badly needed to finish packing and stuff. She had a bit of time before a medical appointment, so it was no skin off her nose apparently. I gave her the book I got from Jill about a madam – “No Bed of Roses” was the title, apparently because the author had had a lot of pricks in her bed. Peggysmum started reading it at the acupuncturists.
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lol Sounds like you had a good time!