Even as we picked our mostly valueless property up, I marvelled at the fact that in Canberra, unlike in Dublin, you get storage as standard. Lots of it
presents. That’s as good a prompt for reflection as any at the close of one year and the opening of another. I didn’t tell anyone at the time. It would really be far too much of a festive conversation killer on the video call home to
I had to try not to chuckle myself, to be honest, having woken up on Christmas morning to find my husband in the kitchen, visibly upset that someone had stolen thehe bought for me to assemble during my week off. “I stored the gifts I got you downstairs so you wouldn’t find them,” he said. “Somebody broke in and took them.
For the most part, you don’t walk about with the sense that someone might imminently chloroform you and harvest your kidneys. Although you will frequently come across people with addiction issues, many of whom are clearly not mentally well, and who are sort of ignored by the city as though rendering them invisible constitutes a form of compassion.
I was delighted to find the discarded voucher, if a bit sad at the thief’s evident contempt for a nice aspidistra.
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