French Saloon

This is not the most obvious place to find. There is no real signage except for two small scratchy words on the door leading to a set of stairs.  We checked it out but ate some lunch downstairs at Max's.  Hardware Ln was a destination we always used during the bushwalk years. There are still outdoors shops nearby. As for wedding parties "Ce sera un bon endroit"

What's French for champagne?

Escaliers mystérieux 

Treasury Building

When this was built they didn't have weddings in mind. The banks couldn't handle the amount of gold coming into Melbourne so they built this to store the gold.  Eight gold vaults were placed in the basement.  This is now a freebie museum we only had a quick look inside. There are permanent displays and temporary shows like the Wild Colonial Boys.  Will have to go back to check that out. the wedding parlour has 58 seats and one desk.  So we should all fit.

Complete with aisle

Industrial beach

Port Melbourne has completed its industrial upgrade after transfer from the council to the Port Authority.  Watching robot like gantries unloading containers off trucks is entertaining for only a short period. The new playground has a nautical theme  but the gym section has a few puzzling sets of equipment.  The car park now seems to be filled with 9:00 to 5:00 workers as well.  Despite all this if you get a north wind day without  any dogs then it is pleasant enough.

But what does it do?

The Ancient Future - Gathering Vol 3

By the end of this third book most characters had three different names because they appeared once in each book in a different time. But also they had the ability to change their appearance to look like someone else.  So I was just glad to get to the end.  The Gods got more involved as well but I am not sure why they need spaceships to fly around if they are gods. It would have taken a lot of effort to get these books in order in the author's mind.

Big Wheel Ride

Thought we'ed take a Sunday amble to the Big Wheel.  The bike track was not a good option. First the Maribyrnong was awash with row boats because they were hosting a meet which generally blocks the track.  Over the road was the pet friends day which was huge. Many tents with all manner of animal related activities.  The track was choked with another event which lasted all the way to Footscray Park as it was a fun run cum walk called Walk West. They also had many tents and presentations. Just when we thought we were free, we ran head long into an organised bike event which came at us head first but fortunately veered off onto the road. We still managed 27 km.

Don't these people know this is our track!

Cards and Friday Footy

It has been a few months since the playing of some 500 has occurred but we managed to get through some games last night. There was much half joking stuff about alzheimer's and how we kept forgetting whose turn it was. Paul was back from his Singapore stint so we had a proper quorum of six players.  Bulldogs had an unconvincing win but they will take it.

Dental Hijack

I woke up this morning thinking I should try and get a dentist appointment, now I am missing a tooth. They had a cancellation so come in right now they say.  OK.  This tooth has an abscess on the gum below it  he says.  Some antibiotic will fix it, he says.  We'll take an Xray to be sure he says.  Sorry this tooth is fractured with much bone reduction, it has to come out.  There were five steps from that point.

• Anesthetic 
• flick out the old filling
• cut the tooth down the middle
• pull out both halves

The last three steps took about 10 seconds after I was comfortably numb.