Chesty Bond

There are only three of us on the tennis court because Gina and Scott are already in Dublin.

Chesty Bond watches us play from the tower across the road. He's winking but I don't think it's about the standard of play today. I try to concentrate on the basics: moving my feet and watching the ball. It's like those road signs: Police now targeting...speeding. Noonie now targeting...moving feet and watching the ball.

Noonie and I walked the south end of King Street, Scrags being the natural point to turn around. Allie tried to get everyone calling it SoNew (as in South Newtown) but we don't seem to have that kind of sensibility. It reminds me of "Stop trying to make fetch happen", from Mean Girls. Totally random.

At the expanded shop across from Scrags we buy $3 plastic stripey rings and they give us cup cakes with red and white icing to celebrate their opening weekend. I try to barter on a job lot at Dragstar but the sweet shop assistant says she's not allowed to deal. Fortuitously I only buy the skirt and then later Annie comes home with a totally fetch shirt that she bought with me in mind. Suddenly I have the wedding outfit.

Later we see Wedding Crashers. Trev says the only reason he's dragged himself out of the house post buck's night is because he wants to be alert and prepared to the possibility of crashers at their wedding. I say that I'd probably welcome them, but that's before seeing the film.