FRIDAY 20 MARCH     QUEANBEYAN

A hot day – low 30’s.

Noticed today that there are lots of currawongs around here now. Their whistling and yacka-yacka calls are a constant background sound. I find it charming. Maybe a sign of autumn coming, though.

John wanted to go back to the War Memorial to do some more research on his dad’s battalion in France, in 1916-17. The available materials are such that really only one person can use them at a time, and he was more interested in this than I was.

I walked until I found a bakery and then on to food shops to get things for lunch. It took me two hours! I must have walked about 8kms! There are times when the layout of Canberra really frustrates  me.

When I got back to the Memorial, all hot and bothered, John was too engrossed to bother with lunch, anyway, which rather annoyed me, after all that effort. I ate mine outside, on the lawn, in a patch of shade.

I spent the rest of the afternoon browsing in the WW1 section of the Memorial, then sitting outside on the lawn, in the shade, reading.

John finished at 4.30pm, when the research section shut.

We shopped for foods for tomorrow night’s dinner with H and C. Cost me $60, plus more for alcohol, however, that was still only about $15 per person. As John pointed out, you couldn’t eat out for that. Especially around here!

Tea was bought fish and chips.