I donated a bag of books and a few magazines to a street library today, while on my way to see a play called 'The Last Ship', written by and starring Sting.
From the book 'Share'
One of the books I donated to the street library was a book called 'Share', which was mainly full of quotes and self-motivational tips.
I also donated my two C.S. Lewis books to the street library and noticed a C.S. Lewisquote in the 'Share'book when I was flicking through it for the last time:-)
I've read a lot of quotes ofC.S. Lewis lately, it seems.
I even took back a book titled 'Vernon God Little'from a street library at Mt. Cotton that I had donated months ago and placed it in the West Endstreet library with my other books last night, as nobody in Mt. Cottonseems to be interested in reading it ... maybe understandably?
I did write a post about reading it last November -
But boy, did I get my cheese quota for the month yesterday?! When I paid at the 'Pie Face'counter I saw that I had been charged for two Cheese and Spinach empanadas when I had only asked for one.
And when I told the guy at the counter, he refunded the price of one back to my card and said I could have the other one for free, as he had already put two into the oven.
I didn't really want to eat all that when I got home, so I thought I would offer it to my son if he wanted it, but he had already left for work by the time I got home, so I ate it.
When I was a teenager, I used to buy 'Grass Roots' magazines from my local newsagent and dream of owning a small farm over theNew South Walesborder putting into practice what I had read, but that never happened.
Recently someone donated two'Grass Roots' magazines to the Op Shop, and I bought them and had a read through them for old time's sake.
One was an August/September2001 edition and the other was a February/March2025 edition.
I remember thinking how good it would be to raise a family on a little farm like that and maybe even home school the children, but that might have turned out a disaster for them in hindsight:-)
It's given me a sense of nostalgia reading through these two magazines, but I'm going to pass them on to a street library to inspire somebody else to live the dream, while I have to be content with lemons from my backyard lemon tree, while I make future plans for re-landscaping my backyard and wait for my lime tree to start giving me fruit.
Raising chickens is definitely out with neighbours living so close by.
I would like to have aSanity Saving Secret Gardenonce more, like I used to have before I ripped out all of my palm trees from my backyard in order to have my old crumbling fence and retaining wall rebuilt.
But I want to be surrounded by trees that are more bird and butterfly friendly this time round.
