Telegraph poles, tell him he’s dreaming and a whole heap of serenity
Most people who know me know I like my fair share of antics and this usually revolves around laughing at perfectly mundane things… it brings me a lot of joy and in my experience tends to brings others joy to. So this the story of me spending 4 weeks at wee (Scottish for small) Marks (my cousin) in New South Wales.
I’ll start off with the biggest surprise and that was not only did I watch football I played it… admittedly against a pack of 9 year olds but thats beside the point. It was nice to be involved in something which means so much to Mark and Jake and get to meet the people they spend so much time with. Everyone was super welcoming and chatted away to me which was lovely. Wether that be the enormous generosity of Peter and his wife Suzanne, Jo, who left Kirkcaldy for life in Aus or any of the other may people who spoke to me it was a pleasure to chat and I hope to see you all very soon.
Wee Marks place was tucked away at the end of road backing on to authentic Aussie bushland and let me tell you it was stunning. It was the definition of serenity - this word which we would come to use like a comma to describe a whole range of different things after watching the Australian movie ‘The Castle’. We’re talking power lines, Bunnings (hardware store) and of course Marks abode. The one thing that I really enjoyed sipping my morning coffee on the deck while the sun warmed me, it was truly special to enjoy this for a few weeks.
Also from the castle was the line ‘Tell him he’s dreaming’, which me and Mark adopted into our vocabulary to describe almost every minor inconvenience that either one of us had. This normally revolved around the local patrons of Batemans Bay and the surrounding communities as its completely chocka block with people who have retired and don’t have to do anything in a hurry or as Mark likes to put it ‘they’re running on south coast time’.
The locals gave us many a laugh, including one chap who was directing us to get out of somewhere and he had such a thick, Aussie, country accent, I thought he said ‘go down there’ when he in fact said ‘Telegraph pole’ - ask me to say like he said it the next time we speak.
Its rare to get to spend so much time with family, particularly when they live on the other side of the world so I feel hugely grateful to have been able to do so. To be able to spend time with Mark laughing about any old rubbish and get time with his son Jake will be something I remember for a very long time.
But for now thats more than enough football.
Time to enjoy Melbourne and everything it has to offer before heading to New Zealand, nuts I know.
Toddy
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