I went back to visit my old house in Melbourne today. The one I lived in 15 years ago. The one I lived in whilst pregnant with my firstborn child. The one I sat up all night in breast feeding and rocking my son back to sleep night after night after night. The one that still holds many many happy memories.
I was a little concerned that I would be miserable. You know, going back. Remembering happier times. Looking at that house again. But it was fine. Things are just different now. Very different.
If somebody had told me that one day I would be back in Melbourne, having my picture taken outside my old house by a very good friend that I know from London who now lives here - without my firstborn child and my husband, but with my two other children and that incidentally, I would be the smallest person in the photograph, well, I wouldn’t have believed them, would I.
Funny old world.
From there we walked around the corner and sat having coffee in an old haunt “Cafe Domain” which does one of the best lattes in town and we bought flowers from “Domain Flowers” where I used to work and that whole area of South Yarra is still very, very cool.
Then we strolled around the Botanical Gardens – one of my favourite places in the world and the weather was perfect.
Just a lovely day.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:02 am
So glad you’re having a good time and hope the vomiting has stopped.
Might well be meeting up with your HK friend this weekend – and her mum’s who’s visiting. It is a small world isn’t it!
x
March 31st, 2010 at 11:48 am
Oh that’s great Mud…..yes, what a small world it is….Lx
March 31st, 2010 at 10:06 am
There’s nothing more lovely than nostalgia… as long as it sticks to the lovely side, faaaaar away from the melancholic one xx
March 31st, 2010 at 1:54 pm
So you are having a great time in Australia then? My turn to be travel sick……
Occasionally (quite rarely) I go and have a look at the old houses I have lived in but I just feel ever so flat. The places have changed, mainly for the worse and so have I, probably for the worse too.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:56 pm
We are always rushing so fast onto the next thing that it sometimes seems weird to be ‘going back’ and revisiting the past stuff – be it houses, people (via Face book etc) – but it needn’t be bad or especially brilliant – it was what it was, and it brought you to where you are today – having a lovely time with your lovely ‘big’ children and friends in Oz…oh I am so jealous, it is cold and rainy here …so your ‘past’ there is much more appealing!
Can’t wait to hear more, and i love the photos of the art work – amazing.
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:10 am
V G points re going back thanks ILRP – hope you’re all coping with the horrid weather back home Lx