I picked up a book in a street library, which was titled 'Happy Endings' written by Bella Green, which is a memoir of a sex worker turned stand-up comedian, who I'd never heard of until finding this book and Googling her, only to find out she committed suicide in 2023.
So, I listened to some old podcasts featuring Bella Green before I was going to start reading her book, to try and understand why she killed herself so soon after this 2021book of hers was released.
Sounds like the book is going to be more of a Greek tragedy than a comedy to me.
I wrote about the day I picked this book out of a street library, because of all the banana syncs I was having at the time, and had planned on reading it in September, but I'm still reading Peter Carey'sNed Kelly bookand it looks like I won't start reading Bella's book until October now.
It was fairly quiet when I was having lunch here today, with just me and a couple of students in the store, and about 3 drive-through orders while I was there.
But as I looked across the road to the Brisbane Lions ClubI couldn't help thinking about my purple Fremantle mermaid hanging from my computer desk at home;-)
And I had a final beer in Melbourne at the airport late this afternoon after getting off the SkyBus from Docklands and checking my luggage in.
But I had a Big Mac at the airport before checking my luggage in and waiting for my 9 o'clock flight back to Brisbane(UPDATE: our flight was delayed and took off closer to midnight and landing in Brisbane at about 2am Tuesday) and was surprised to see a sparrow was in the Mc Donaldslooking for food:-)
Which reminded me for an old post I wrote in 2013 -
I thought I had seen that it was'Self-Reliance Day' today when I looked at 'The Days of the Week' sitethis morning, but when I looked up the site in Mc Donalds, I found out it was'Self-Awareness Day' instead:-)
My last beer at the airport was a Carlton Draught, but I didn't get a photo of it before I drank it.
Ironically, I did take a picture of my six-inch chicken Sub to show my brother when I heard my flight was delayed and I had to buy something, knowing how bad and expensive Virgin's in-flightmenu was.
Although, I did buy a $14 Balter Beeron the flight, because it was still 'National Drink Beer Day' when I bought it ... just.
While I never got to watch the AFL Grand Final from inside the stadium on Saturday, I did get to be in the MCG for the Captain's Run on Friday, the presentation on Saturday, after the final siren when Freo lost in dramatic fashion to the Lions, and I got to see the stadium once more on a paid tour of the grounds today before me and my son fly back to Brisbanetonight.
It's always been a goal of mine to watch an AFL Grand Final at the MCG, which I guess it still is, but it doesn't come much closer than this weekend for me, and I'll die a happy football fan coming as close as I did this weekend.
I did get to see the 2020 GF in Brisbane, at least, although the Lions didn't make it to the GF that year.
We even got to walk down the Freo tunnel today, but not up the Lions tunnel ... Doh!
The Lionstunnel at the MCG Monday
At least we got to go into both dressing rooms on Monday.
We got to look out of the MCG towards the Melbourne CBD and to theEureka Tower that we were at the top of on Fridaynight, which I wrote about in this post -
Looking from the Eureka Tower at the MCG Friday night
We certainly got some different views of the MCG on Monday:-)
They even had the tractors in putting in the cricket pitches, which makes me realize just how boring the summer is when there is no footy to watch, because it's cricket season until next autumn ... yawn!
It was a sad sight seeing the beer tent we watched the Grand Final from on Saturday being taken down today:-(
