Ladies Who Lunch!

One of the hardest things when you move to a new country is re-establishing a circle of friends, when you've left all the old ones behind. I was thinking about this yesterday, as I had a lunch date with some more girlfriends, and I was reflecting on how one friend leads to another, then another and so on! I met Debbie first when she moved out here from the UK and her kids were at the same school as mine, through her I met another Debbie, whose daughters were friends with the first Debbie's, then we met Donna, who's a friend of Aussie Debbie, then another English friend Louise started coming along on our lunch meet-ups, so we now make quite a respectable group! Well, respectable in terms of group-size if nothing else!!

Usually we meet at either Cafe Primo in Tea Tree Plaza or Caffe Buongiorno in Tea Tree Plus. Yesterday we thought we'd try out the newly opened Cafe Verde in the new Fairview Park shopping centre! It's a tough life but someone has to do it.....

First two negative points about the centre - there's no ATM there yet so the only way to get cash out is by buying something at Foodland there, and the loos are a bit of a treck from the Cafe, so go before you're really desperate just in case when you get there they're temporarily closed for cleaning (isn't that right, Louise!?!) Ok, that's my pommie whinging out of the way.

The cafe itself was very nice - similar in a lot of ways to Caffe Buongiorno - all the usuals such as Chilli Prawns, Salt and Pepper Squid, Pizzas (I liked the sound of the Tandoori Chicken one - I'm trying that next time!) and a tasty chicken with asparagus, broccoli and blue cheese sauce. Only downside was all five meals didn't come at once, but they did give us some free chips to nibble on and apologise with free coffees all round, so can't really moan! Good wine selection too. Apparently they're open 8:30am to 10pm 7 days a week, so next time I might check out their breakfast menu!

Back to real work today over at the Management Consultants in Port Adelaide. Oh, and the good news is that OH now has a four week contract job after being made redundant at the end of February. Only a short term thing, but Adelaide is all about getting your face and name known, so fingers crossed for this one - at least it will hopefully stop him from nagging me about hanging up my clothes: when he's at work during the day he doesn't keep tripping over the pile!