there's nowhere good to have breakfast at queen victoria market

QVM feels a little work-in-progress at the moment with ugly new buildings being put up to its south and the above kind of nonsense going on which I think is described on a sign as 'essential renewal'. The bummer is, there is really nowhere to have a good breakfast, by which I mean, not a fucking egg and bacon fryup. There is one cafe which I went to for donkey's years run by I think an Indian family (sorry if that's wrong) who did a very superior scrambled tofu. I'm not going to name or shame the new management but that cafe is now much more normy than it was (popular though) and it certainly doesn't cater to the likes of me, which I understand (though obviously don't approve) but looking around at all the empty shopfronts etc you have to think surely there is room enough for a whole lot of new places that could cater to people who didn't even necessarily want their shopping at QVM to be an experience, just somewhere to glean an interesting toasted bagel with idontknowwhat on it, I'm not a chef or an innovator. Someone should do it though. 

market this morning

Yeah I did go to the market this morning it was pretty empty and closed. It didn't open till 9 am and even then, it opened in a closed kind of way. I bought some spring onions, broccoli (such a staple of my diet that I feel fine about dinner if I have some in the fridge) a cauliflower and some oranges, in case of scurvy. Nothing happened and nothing was interesting about the experience overall. Oh, this wasn't interesting but I bought some rice, really expensive rice that was expensive for no reason. I'll probably go to Woolworths later so there was doubly no reason for me to buy that fucking rice.*

Update 24h later: worse. I went to Cheaper Buy Miles where they were selling the same quantity of rice, grown locally (which is of course a conundrum in environmental terms, but/and I don't know what the origin of the market rice was) for a dollar a bag. Lesson: always go to CBM first, fill in the gaps elsewhere thereafter.  

flexible tuesday

It is the evening of a day I boasted to some colleagues was a 'flexible Tuesday' in case there was anything they needed me to do on a particular project that's been hanging around like a really nice constant smell for some years now and which might actually be submitted for funding sometime before the end of everyone's life. Well, I did manage to make this the fourth day in a row when I exceeded 10 000 steps - it's harder than you'd think and time consuming. This time I walked to the chef supplies shop in Elizabeth st, the (QVM) market, and an asian supermarket, each time I went in I put a mask on, Laura was nice enough to make me some great masks and they work really well but yes, how do you stop them misting up your glasses?! Either hold your breath or don't wear your glasses all the time - obvs. Still, it's a drag. That walk accounted for 6000 steps, a little more. Then in the evening my brother Michael came by and we traversed the 'Royal' Park a little bit and I got up to 12000, it is really wearing me out but I assume that's a hump you get over. 

Now, I'm about to go driving to Richmond to drop off some tapes to Al. I'll tell you about the tapes later OK, I have to do this now. 

Playlist for today: Godley and Creme Freeze Frame; Pere Ubu Song of the Bailing Man; Snowy Band Audio Commentary; Summer Flake Whatever the Second Album's Called - I think it might be Hello Friends? Also, finally started listening to the most recent Philip Pullman novel as audio book.