There are a number of changes that have occurred along my beat that I'll record soon but not today, I don't have much time. Next Sunday is Mother's Day and I have a large order to fill for David Healey of Girrawheen Flowers, who picks up tomorrow morning. I worked on it on Saturday and again yesterday knowing I'd never do it all today. Just for the record he's asked for 50 bunches of camellia foliage, 20 lillypilly, 20 Jap. maple, 20 ivy berries, 30 mixed foliage bunches, 10 flax, 10 magnolia grandiflora, and 30 laurel.
You may recall that early this year I decided to wear my 'authentic Greek fisherman's hat' every morning on my walk. I'm a creature of routine. People, including Janice from Quinn Rd., whom I sometimes meet as she walks down to tend her horses, or walking her dog 'Hannah', have told me the hat suits me. Last week, Janice said my horizontally striped red and blue Melbourne Football Club 'rugby jersey', which I've started wearing now the mornings are cold, worked very well with the hat, adding I looked like I was straight off a Greek fishing boat.
Whatever I look like doesn't matter, but I like wearing the same distinctive gear in the morning and being recognized immediately by my early morning friends. A lot of drivers wave or give their horns a frienly pip and other walkers wave from a distance.
Geoff Howard waved to me from his car as he went passed me in the town this morning and then as I walked past his house on my way back, he was returning, about to pull into his driveway. I was on the other side of the road to where I normally walk, having crossed to look for for pine mushrooms under the pine trees. Alas, there are none to be found as yet, April was very dry and the rain early this month can't have been enough. Geoff slowed his car right down and waved again, then wound his window down.
"You look like 'Where's Wally'," he called out, with a big grin on his face.
I threw my head back and joined him in a deep belly laugh.
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