In Brisbane or BrisVegas as my friend Carly calls it. We are paying a flying visit up here until Sunday. Staying with Lu’s mum and brother in Newmarket. We flew up Wednesday night and I was zonked. Still very tired from last week and overly irritable probably too. Yesterday we hired a car and drove up north to Lu’s friend Belinda’s place at Pomona (sort of near Noosa). We cruised around there for a while – went for a long drive to Baroon and Noosa Heads. Had a drink in Noosa Heads at a place called Cato’s and then watched the sunset on Noosa Beach. Got a call whilst doing that from my friend Carly who can’t make it down to Brisbane this weekend because her significant other is going up to visit her. Which is a real shit because I’d have liked to catch up with her. Ah well another time. Queensland is still slightly scary though. Had dinner last night in the only pub in Pomona – and it was g-string night – where one very cold barmaid was dressed in a skimpy outfit and looked like she was freezing to death. I bloody well hope she got paid extra for that – a lot extra too given the ocker yobbos drinking there too. Lots of mullet cuts and skanky looking chicks. But food was good in the bistro. Small pubs in small towns – very weird places. Now back in Brisbane and heading into town to drop off our hire car and then meadering around with Lu’s family for the rest of the day. Not sure when I’ll have a chance to write more so until then adios all…
Reading: We were soldiers once and young by Hal Moore and Joe Galloway on which the movie We Were Soldiers was based. Really gritty stuff. Not very well written but the material has a life of its own.
Listening to: The Simpson’s and Lu’s brother Richard eating breakfast.
