Meagan the Barber

My hairdresser Leanne is unavailable this week. She usually cuts my hair in her house but her father was entering palliative care when I called her and has since died. Today I tripped down to Pakenham to do some shopping and thought I'd get a cut whilst there. I grabbed a late lunch at a sushi bar in the new mall complex before finding the barber I had used once before when Leanne was unavailable.

He had a queue lined up so I went to an express cut ladies place that had a sign up for men too. Again there was a queue, mostly kids lined up before school goes back. So I walked planning to go to Todd and Sweeney in the main street where I used to go years ago. He kept putting the price up so I found Leanne. I found another shop at the back end of an arcade off the main street, near Retravision, there was no one in the shop but no sooner was I in there than a lady's voice came from behind me saying "Here I am I'll look after you."

I recognized her straight away, she used to work in 'Sweeney and Todd' and sometimes cut my hair there. She's been in her shop cutting men's hair now for four years and a good job she did too today. I remembered she was a Sydney Swans supporter and we had a good chat about the footy. Good sort too. It cost me $19 which isn't bad considering she would have rent and overheads. Leanne does me for $15 but she works from home and would have less costs, so she does alright. Todd Sweeney was $22 when Gord went there a while back he told me, and it's probably $24 now.

For many years Lib cut my hair, but she got sick of it, and I can understand that.

I stocked up on red wine at Dan Murphy and the usual items at Aldi I like to get every few weeks eg soda water toilet paper canned food tea bags, a lot of the staples that you can save quite a bit by stocking up on. I bought a new phone and answering machine for the farm too, which was another motivation for the trip, the old machine stopped functioning.

I finished my Nigel article tonight, after sending it in this morning, I revised it down tonight to 820 words after some discussion with Nigel to get his OK and suggestions. I have just now resent the revision to the editor and hope it comes out with the changes as the final version reads better.

Not much else to say. I hope I'm not boring the pants off you with this mundane prattle but I'm tying to be disciplined and post each day, in the hope something good will come sometime. I feel one brewing. I'm sick of the Olympics before they have started, at least the adds on TV. And the swimmers are complaining that the government doesn't pay them enough while they swim, so they can swim without financial worry. Poor buggers.