Of all the days to forget my camera...On an incredibly beautiful day (made more so by the preceding incroyablement blah days) Tom and I played petanque in the jardin du Luxembourg in the early afternoon and then I went to the canal St Martin to pick up the kids I'm baby-sitting at the moment. (Oh yeah - I forgot to say that I'm baby-sitting three kids at the moment for a friend of B's. They're lovely - super polite, super cute and no trouble at all.) Where their school is, there's also a lock, and as I got there early I was able to watch three boats (two canal cruisers and one normal motor boat) navigate the three stages. In the dappled sunlight, the cool-yet-comfortable temperatures and with the sound of water seemingly everywhere it was quite a magical twenty minutes. How I kicked myself afterwards for not having my camera, though!
It also gave me time to reflect that life is really quite lovely. Tomorrow I have an interview for a job that, if I can swing a semi-permanent contract position rather than a freelance one, means I'll have enough money to come back to Sydney for my birthday and Christmas at the end of the year. That's a goal and a half, let me tell you! Fingers crossed for tomorrow!!
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