We had a slow start to the day today. We were both really tired and enjoyed
\nthe sleep in. I often walk each morning when I’m here but not today. We went
\ndown to the Surfing Albatross for coffee. The ‘Albatross has changed owners
\nsince last year and all the staff are new. The look new and inexperienced.
\nIt’s something about this place. They always seem to have inexperienced staff.
\nTbis has been a constant over three owners. The music was far too loud and
\nit took 20 minutes for us to get our coffees. We come here because it is the
\nonly cafe here with room to spread out and read the paper and write, and when
\nyou get it, the coffee is good.<\/p>\n
Later in the day, I went down to the beach. It was a hot day with a predicted
\nmaximum for Melbourne of 35 and it felt close to that. Judy decided to stay
\nback at the house and I had the choice of going to the closer main beach or
\ntravel a bit further and go to the more familiar family beach. I chose the
\nfamiliar.<\/p>\n
Even getting out of the car in the car park put me into a different space. I
\ntook a deep breath and immediately relaxed a little. Then with a sense of
\nanticipation I walked most of the length of the car park to the entry to the
\nbeach. As I got there I could see the tide was fully out. The beach looks
\nmagnificent when it’s like this. Then onto the beach itself and I experienced
\nan overwhelming feeling of relaxation. Just being here changed my whole outlook.
\nIt was a time when I was able to forget all the anxiety and apprehension that
\nhad built up over the year. I knew it would return later, but for the moment
\nI was free.<\/p>\n
After having a swim, I decided to walk over to the main beach and back anyway.
\nIt took two and a half hours. Although I did have a couple of short swims
\nbecause it was so hot. It was a fantastic day and I returned to the house
\nfeeling quite different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Written Tuesday 27th December 2005 We had a slow start to the day today. We were both really tired and enjoyed the sleep in. I often walk each morning when I’m here but not today. We went down to the Surfing Albatross for coffee. The ‘Albatross has changed owners since last year and all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}