Oh my Gawd.....what an awesome concert, what an inspirational man, performer and poet...it is a privilege to have seen him. Thanks Shell it should have been my treat since it was your birfday but it was her treat!...A few days a go I had to go and fetch my childhood friend from the airport, in her car, in her city...never having driven in Sydney.....don't tell her but I left at 7am to get there at 4pm....and I made it in time. Actually only got lost once and enjoyed that part, found out where I had been by train the previous day. She had been in South Africa, staying with some of my friends and going down the garden route with my cousin.....all very bizarre! Anyway it was her birthday weekend so I hung out in Bondi slept on the blow up matress and went for early morning swims...the things I imagine doing when you have a surfboard and wear "Bathers' as the Ozrites, call it! First night we ate at a lovely restaurant 'her local' and had pasta in a paper bag...saves cleaning the plates. Then the next day was a pre birthday picnic, in Nielsen Park with her buddies, some whom I had met when I was there in 1899 I mean 1989...whotever it was still a bloody long time ago! I had been to the park then and remember everyone speaking Greek...it was Hydra come SYdney, 4 generations and "efcharisto parakalo"....this time the lovely group that gathered were a mixture of SA, Ozrite, Italian, American.....the colonies. The highlight of the food was "CHOOK" if you don't know what it is....just repeat the word fifty times and flap your wings....GET IT.....that's what they call it and it was scrummy. We were there well passed sunset....a little tipsy and quite hysterical. Her friend that I met in India (who I now call VOW) sometimes cos I can't remember her name, and sometimes cos that is her...were telling them about the Oceana where we stayed in Varkala and the German inmates. Another friend then told his travel stories and we were literally falling about! VOW, SHell and I came back to her flat for a night cap...I was already in night nap mode.....polished off some liquorice chocolates....REALLY liquorice sweets chocolate coated..must be an Ozrite delicacy! and I had to go to sleep. Birthday morning presis....I have been with Shell for quite a few birthdays...it is the time of year, winter for me and summer for her...we try and meet every few years for an adventure and a reality check and Feb is a good time. We had a few hours of beach and then made our way down the south coast to the concert...stopping off at some wonderful craft places and a shop called '3 monkeys' which had wonderful jewellery and THINGS from all over the world....I recognized quite a few pieces, so ticked off the countries I had visited and ones I have to go to, Vladivostock is top of my list!!!! We both bought some designer "Industrial Jewels" but Shelley's was a self birthday gift by an Italian designer..gorgeous! and mine was a bit of cheapie chic.....The people we were meeting had baggsed a place so we could easily see the stage....the setting was a beautiful vineyard and the rest of the evening was total bliss....even emotional bliss.....we love you Leonard.....I thought of going backstage, as an excuse to say " Didn't I know family of yours...the Cohen's from Harare...he had quite a good voice?"
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