Virg'n Mary slowly recovered from their anasthetic malaise over the week, till last night when they finally decided to sleep with each other again and cease their spitting and hissing. We had a relaxing round of sleeping late, going to bed late, eating breakfast and lunches out, scrapping around for tea and generally finding every decadent, time wasting or luxurious past time we could possibly conjure up.
We went to movies mid-morning on a work day, ate lunch at 3 p.m., went to the beach in the middle of the day and watched multiple episodes of TV dramas at any time of the day or night. We slopped around in our trakky daks and barely managed to have a shower and get dressed till much later in the day or evening. Books and magazines were read and scanned and every item of interest on the internet, email, newspapers online, Facebook etc were checked and mulled over. We watched the rain leak from the sky in the day and thunder down in shrieks during the night, all the while luxuriating in our sloth.
We did rouse ourselves to have a few little walks along the way, as well as getting downtown via multiple subway cars to celebrate Cassy's birthday at one of her favourite restaurants, Aubergine. We also lunched at Victoria in Jinshan, Sonnentor in Tienmu and breakfasted at Wendels. Shots of all the eating are above as well as a wine selection (all from Australia) at the supermarket....oh, how times have changed! I also included a shot of a white mouth-guarded, Thalidomide baby warning people not to smoke in the toilet of the restaurant.
David is reading the amazing book by Susan Cain on introversion, "Quiet". He has definitely confirmed he is one.....20/20 on the checklist! Cass is onto the evergreen Peter Corris with his latest Cliff Hardy adventure. (She got slightly fewer than 20 on the introversion checklist, but is still firmly in their number: my question is.....how on earth did we become teachers, who must rate amongst the world's greatest self promoters and extroverts?!)
