Saturday Day 21

Took the kids swimming and to the Mall when Jon had to go into work unexpectedly. The Americanisation of Australia is a profound and irreversible fact and is pretty depressing. One can see where the obesity epidemic originates. I got a lift to visit Geoff –a very old college mate who I have seen 3 times in 35 years, but we pick up as if there were no time between. He has a lovely spacious house in Balwyn but misses the Dandenongs where they lived for twenty odd years. His eldest daughter is at La Trobe , as it happens, and moving into town seemed the sensible thing. We see a ring-tailed possom in the garden that night, who gazes at us with huge eyes as if from the bottom of a pond.