hot as a pot

[loolahbelle]

Cor luvaduck, blimey O’Riley, streuth and egads - it’s hot. So hot the birds sound drunk. So hot the ground blisters your feet. So hot the bread for your sandwich is dried like an old crust in thirty seconds flat. So hot the world has melted slightly, like a Dali painting. Dry hot, because I’m in the Green Kingdom (the slightly-browned-around-

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[quatrefoil]

This sounds like the most completely perfect way to spend a hot day. I shall imagine you in your swimming attire (which is not unlike mine in its coverage) in your Green Kingdom.

[loolahbelle]

It was a most completely perfect way to spend a hot day. What I didn't know, cocooned up there, was what was raging through Victoria.

It does strike me to mention the house by the beach again - it's not taken for a while and it may be that a couple of days or a week with the sea to look at or walk by might be a Good Thing in your coming weeks. I spent a couple of weeks there at a low ebb last year and it did me so much good. I say all this with diffidence because the last thing I want is for you to feel pressured by it, but if you'd like to borrow it, then just say.

[quatrefoil]

Thank you - that's really generous, and yes, it sounds wonderful and I would like to accept. I'm not sure of my schedule yet - it's starting to look like the first two weeks of my month off will be away - going to Canberra and learning to drive manual (which is not going to be relaxing, but is too good an opportunity to miss) and then the trek to Port Fairy, which should be. I'm really feeling the need to spend some time at home dealing with the mounds of paper, but I think that time spent looking at the sea is what I need. Strangely, I went to a Kristina Olsen concert a little while ago, and what has stayed with me was her final encore - a song she didn't write, which has the lines 'Think I'll go down to the ocean, think I'll go and lie beside the sea ...'.

[loolahbelle]

I've been walking by the sea (in Sydney) every day for a while now and it's invariably been the best part of the day. I think the word 'healing' is massively over-used but I can't think of a better one. Anyway, the house is sitting there, going to be empty for stretches of time. You're most welcome to use it if you have time. Just say and we can arrange the practicalities.