Georgiezine

We had our friend T visit, 2 years and 11 months since I'd seen him-Christmas Eve. Then I was living interstate, and he was briefly in Adelaide.  I can remember thinking I wouldn't benefit from his relocation, as he wouldn't be in the same state... woosh, 4 months later, engaged, pregnant and back. What a year... So, he's in London. Found out he'd been having a good life there, in the days of the boom, in the financial industry, living it large with restaurants and bars and wordly work associates and misses those days. I wonder how many of these associates were women, with children at home.. yes, when he told me that story, I thought all about myself and the pressure to do the childcare pick up every day after work.. The day that he left, would have been the greatest example of contrasts between our lives. I was driving through the wheat fields and rolling hills, where Yorke Peninsula meets Southern Flinders Ranges-a yellow landscape, listening to The Triffids. ...