Thursday

Thursday, 30 September

Yesterday evening we joined Sue and Gary for dinner at a local Thai restaurant – an unpretentious place which served very nice food. Evidently, the place is frequented by Gary and Sue on a very regular basis.

Today was cool and cloudy, with the occasional bit of sunshine. First thing this morning we drove to the South Dandenong Cemetery and scattered my mother’s ashes on the grave of her mother, who died in 1934. We left some flowers for them both to share.

Then it was some retail therapy, first at Breakaway/Black Pepper (a first visit for Kathryn, who did seem rather excited) and then at Chadstone Shopping Centre. This centre now caters for two completely different elements, with establishments (definitely not “shops”) like Prada, Gucci, Burbery, Jimmy Choo and Tiffany on one level and shops like Priceline, Best & Less, Dotti, etc on another level. We spent a very pleasant few hours wandering around the more “normal” shops and dreaming as we walked slowly past the more exclusive!