Ok,
It was one of those Lou Reed perfect days today although as he was a heroin junky and his music too edgy, maybe more of a Mozartian rococo music style perfect day, you decide.
I think after various years of various varieties of hells, I'm well placed to enjoy happy days like today.
Kind of starting backwards, I swam from Red Herring just in my 🩲 underwear, a life jacket, a black pair of perfectly fitting flippers and my tight fitting plastic sandals as hand gloves, back to the sailing club where I had left my shirt, shirt, towel, keys, phone, three kids, etc.
I had just dropped the kids off at the sailing club, motoring from Newport. Near Flying Fox cafe, Mona Vale, Newport. Tying on at the club looked a little messy but turned out fine. Basically the back end of the boat was going perpendicular to the pontoon instead of parallel and the bow was too close to another boat. Anyway we sorted that out and organised a few things and I left the kids at the clubhouse, motored Red Herring to her mooring then put on my snorkel and goggles and flippers and hand gloves, with a tight life jacket on, all in my underwear after having packed up Red Herring and kind of accidentally crapping in the shower while standing up twelve hours earlier in zee crib (maisson Benji with a french Canadian accent). Slipped into the water and swam a hundred metres or so through the gentle waves and current to shore.
Grab this grab that and driving kids home for dinner in the comfortable SUV.
Prior to in Newport we found a perfect jetty to tie onto within easy walking distance of Mona Vale's excellent Flying Fox cafe and park. We easily sat at the jetty a few hours enjoying cards and hot boiled two minute noodles on Red Herring's cooker.
Prior to that it was another great morning of kids sailing at the sailing club. 'They're a bunch of wizards back there'* at the club on Sundays I can tell you. What a great day. I normally had been driving bus on Sunday afternoons for double pay but this was much better. Excellent.
Lou Reed perfect day
https://youtu.be/9wxI4KK9ZYo?si=MmpHmIUD7JkX5Auj
Or something more cheerful....
https://youtu.be/o_LdqKIQ5Uo?si=C9yEHQQ31xQBrrcT
* To quote Quentin Tarantino on Jimmy Kimmel late August 2005 with his little nascar
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