Different Worlds

A thoroughly pleasant weekend but a bit of a jumble, so I'll just list what we did.

Friday: Drinks at Sydney Opera House with Lou followed by a so-so play (God of Carnage)

Saturday: Halloween! We had offered to organise the local kids to go round the close together. We ended up with 18 assorted ghosts, goblins, princesses and a SuperBarnaby trolling around the close in a big gang. Afterwards we hosted a sausage sizzle for children and grown-ups, and it was good to see everyone and meet some new neighbours.

That all felt very bourgeois, like one of those Australian films that nobody goes to see, so luckily our seldom seen mate Dale was on hand afterwards to lower the tone, work through some of the left-over beer and watch a very satisfying football match.

Sunday: To a local Posh School for their summer fete, which was very pleasant. I was amused when a couple of smiling older ladies asked whether I would sign their petition:

Me: "What are they for?"
She: "One if for banning pornography in petrol stations and the other is to stop same sex couples from adopting"
Me: "I don't agree with either of those"

Cue mutually baffled-by-warped-morality stares before I wandered off to put Beth in a teacup.