SUNDAY
I am sooo tired. camping takes soo much out of you cos your constantly getting wood. if you want a cup of tea-thats one hour. my friend drove out and joined me on the saturday nite which was good for the company but...she didnt understand roughing it at all.she bought a mattress and a cleo magazine..lol.. so we had to cook practically a 3 course dinner(baked potato's done in the coals, fish and potato mash with roasted garlic, lentil soup)....which was a lot of effort. and she got scared at night and cold etc. but i knew once we reached the morning she would see the beauty of it and understand. i got up at 5.30 and cranked a massive fire for warmth and cooked bacon and eggs. seriously, i dont know whether its because she bought an expensive pan or what but that was the BEST b&e i have ever eaten. and she agreed. and then she was happy. its hard keeping ppl happy sometimes...hence why i like to be alone down there.(plus i got pissed at her cos she made a quick video on her phone and said "look this is suzi's swamp".
Later we decided to drive into town and go to church. it was this really little church with wooden benches and the man i spoke to afterward said it was 109 years old. we sang hymns, which was fun and i was allowed to keep a hymn book cos the poetry is so beautiful. its like taking a valium, reading those hymns. My friend loved them as her mum sang them to her as a child. We were sitting up the back and this lady comes up and goes "i can smell smoke, like someones burning a fire" and then she realized the smell was coming from me..haha...they had to leave the doors open cos the smell was so strong LOL!
We then went and had coffee and read the tragedies in the newspapers and talked about how much we hated the taliban and how sad the situation in north Korea is etc...then we talked about our own small sagas.
everyone's life, if you compacted it, and made a few tweaks, is a really good book. Each person is like a city in themselves, which is why you should always be careful what you tell people because you never know what they are going to build out of it.
I always think about the first line in "the catcher in the rye". he says "you should never tell anybody anything cos you'll always end up missing them" but i think i would have changed that line. you don't always miss them. you shouldn't tell people things because people change, the person you are telling your secret to now, is not the same person in twenty years. They are older, and different but still have your secret.
We then visited my friend Franzi who owns a hippy shop appropriately called "the earth circle". She's from Switzerland and is very down to earth. I sell a lot of my hand bound books and art and jewellery there. Liz bought a pair of earrings which i had made and a bar of soap. We had used it down at the camp and it is the best in the world. I've never come across a better hand made soap. it really lathers. most soaps dont lather. i hate that. Franzi then explained to me how to make a tee pee and told me that i was crazy to try to be living down by the river. Her of all people i would have expected to understand. I told her i bet that she'd done it and she said she had, and that was that.She has had some incredible life experiences and hers indeed would make a good book i would love to read.
we went walking and i found a gold top!!!!!!!!!!!(a very good magic mushroom) why hadn't i thought to look for them before cos they always come out after the rain. anyway i wrapped it up in tissue paper and put it in my pack and when i got home i remembered it and couldn't find it anywhere. bummed. my friend could possibly have taken it and thrown it away as she wouldn't want me to have it for fear of me losing my brain cells forever. at least i know where they are now anyway.It was a gold top! i have never found one before! was so pleased.
I saw a bong up stream to, and i looked down at it and then jumped back in fright cos there was a huge dead cows head near it with the body disintegrated. didn't smell though. but imagine smoking a cone and u look up stoned to see a big dead cows head up the hill a metre away hahaha..
