Love Is A State Of Mind: Nobody's Life Is Perfect - Plot & Excerpts
I discover that liquor, as Aussies call booze, isn’t sold in supermarkets, but in ‘bottle shops’ so I go two shops down the road. I don’t really know what to do about wine – I buy some, not knowing if Jane will curse me or not, but it feels wrong not to. I try to choose local wine from the Adelaide Hills’ vineyards, which Jane says we’ll visit later. The guy serving offers me some ‘clean skins’ – bottles with no labels – and says what a good buy they are. I succumb and buy two.I watch Marcus like a hawk, now that I know the truth. He tries to be friendly, but I can see he’s distant and dismissive with Jane. He reaches for a glass, almost the moment he comes in from work and keeps it permanently topped up, during the evening. He does indeed fall asleep in front of the TV and I notice Jane leaves him snoring and slumped in a chair, most nights. I worry what to do, but think there’s little I can do. It’s got to be him who sees the light in the end.The following weekend, they are both the perfect hosts and take me on a road trip with one night in a B and B. We go down the Fleurieu Peninsular, visiting places with exotic Aboriginal names. We drive onto the beach at Aldinga, even though we’re not in a four by four and then we drive all the way down to Cape Jervis, where the ferry goes to Kangaroo island. The weather becomes positively English down there and we end up eating fish and chips in the steamed up car, as the rain pours down outside.We drive along the coast to Victor Harbour and gaze down at Horseshoe Bay; we go to Port Elliot and finally Goolwa, the mouth of the mighty Murray. We walk to the barrage and see pelicans, black swans and even seals, basking quietly in the sun. The light down there is stunning and I take some great photos on my new camera. A bird with an amazing warbling sound, which Jane tells me is a Murray magpie, sits and poses for me. He lets me go right up to him as he sits on a wooden post and stays long enough for me to practise taking close-ups.
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