I had a day off Thursday and am starting at mid-day today (Friday)… I’m weirdly missing work. After finishing my book, extended breakfasting, doing a load of washing, I’ve come to a stand still, what the heck does one do with themselves in small towns!?
I haven’t got so desperate to take Grandma up on her offer to see the lady down the roads doll collection. She apparently has thousands. All sitting there. Staring. Rooms of them. A garage of them. Truth is I’ve got images of Chuckie in my head and I’m petrified, ha.

Yesterday, I borrowed one of the farm Utes (I love them, I want one for Christmas please!) I swanned into Swan Hill for a little errands run with grandma. Swan Hill’s about 30minutes away and is where my Grandma used to live before moving out to the farm and it also hasn’t change in the 10 years since I was last here.

Grandma and Grandpa’s house, hasn’t been touched in 10 years..

We started with coffee at Maddy’s my grandmas favourite cafe. I’ll start with the positives they have amazing cakes!! Can you eat pansies? I’m team everything on a plate should be edible, but I wasn’t convinced on this one.

Cake and grandma eagerly divvying it up.

This however was followed by the worst soy flat white ever!! They’re hard to make but this one was very, very flat. Heck I’m still in civilisation and I’m complaining about coffee… Wonder what the soy flat whites will be like it Laos… Back to a positive note they did give grandma her coffee for free after forgetting about her, which was nice.

I know it’s hard to look at, it broke my heart too. A dead white.

After this we parted ways. I ventured to two banks trying to sort out why I haven’t been paid. FYI you need swift codes, BICs and different formatted bank account numbers over here to transfer to an NZ account.
Following this drama I ventured to Aldi, a heavenly cheap supermarket that I’d heard heaps about from the other travellers and it didn’t disappoint. Whale point eat your heart out. Naturally I bought a bottle of each… for market research. I’ve heard they’re not bad if you don’t drink a glass of $8 wine after and compare.

Whale Point has nothing on this – Wine time!

In this time Grandma did Grandma things. So as a treat I took her to the nursery on the way home, ‘to look’. She bought 3 plants. Whoops. I was told she wasn’t allowed to buy anymore just that morning.. I think grandma has an addiction. But at least it isn’t drugs?

I’m off to kill time elsewhere and hold my breath for my uni results that come out tonight, eek.*

*The internet here is suitably crap so I couldn’t post this post when I wrote it. But, I passed my exams, good-bye uni!