This morning my wife suggested we go to a food and wine festival, which was being held at a suburb about 25 minutes drive away. Different parts of Sydney have various local festivals throughout the year, and spring is a favourite time for them. We got there early, just as it opened at 10:00, and it wasn’t too busy, which was good. It would have been crowded at lunch time.
There were food trucks and a couple of dozen stalls from different wineries showing off their wines and selling glasses and bottles, and several stalls with small businesses selling things like jars of jam, chilli sauces, sweets, nuts, etc. There were also some general market stalls selling handicrafts, clothes, plants, and so on. It wasn’t huge, and we walked around all the stalls in maybe half an hour. My wife got an açai bowl with fruit and grains. I considered getting some dumplings but the serving size was too large for a snack, and I didn’t feel like a full meal an hour before lunch time.
We came home via The Flour Shop, a bakery nearby which we’ve been to once before and it was awesome. It was again so today. I got a pastrami, jalapeño, and cheese pastry, which was delicious, and a coconut puff to take home for dessert tonight.
After getting home, I cleaned the garage. This is part of the overall ongoing spring cleaning leading up to the grand repainting of our home in October. We’ve been rearranging stuff and throwing things out and now we are moving some things into storage in the garage, so instead of just chucking it down there I thought we needed to clean it properly. I swept and vacuumed the garage floor, removing a layer of grimy black dust, then wiped down any horizontal surfaces on top of storage boxes and the steel cabinets we have in there, before throwing out some stuff and rearranging things to be neater and more compact.
It took about four hours of work overall, but now the garage is clean, as in not dusty, and also tidy. A tough job, well done. It was really dirty though, as I hadn’t given it a dusting for a few years. Real grime-under-the-fingernails dirty, requiring several hand-washings. And a lot of moisturiser afterwards to smooth the dried skin.