Raining in Sydney

We were relieved to find a more familiar Coogee this weekend, much more sweet and mellow than the desperate partying throughout January. There was Shakespeare's As You Like It at twilight on the grassy Grant Reserve (near the Ladies Baths) on Saturday evening, gentle family picnics in the breezy twilight and then hundreds of little Coogee Minnows and their mums and dads filling the beach and the surf early Sunday morning (with a matching crowd of Nippers at Clovelly Beach).

It rained (hard) all Sunday so our plans to chill out at the Rozelle Markets and then Elkington Park, Balmain didn't work out. This is a picture of our car parked behind a Porsche Boxer and a silver Audi in Short St, Balmain. we still enjoyed a few hours strolling around Darling St, at Bertoni's Cafe and buying more goodies at Adriano Zumbo.

It was a great afternoon to go to the Randwick Ritz - this time to see the Kite Runner, especially enthralling for me because of my experience with Afghan refugee families at school.

A lot of Canberra kids started school today - with the remainder all starting tomorrow. I felt especially carefree waking up at Coogee and making a late start back to Canberra on a school Monday morning (after our scheduled 7.10am fire door inspection). It was still a work day (although a shortened one) for R.