Verandah Days in Bellingen

Just back from weekend in beautiful Bellingen, between 3-4 hours drive south of Byron Bay.

4.5 hours there and 3.5 hours back to be specific.
Reasons for variable times include renegade police officers on power-trips, Queenslanders and Learner drivers.

Can proudly say that am getting more and more confident behind wheel. No longer shaking, sweating and hyperventilating for extended periods of time. Parts of driving-experience, in fact, is becoming automated. As one would expect with the extra experience.

For instance, one dude was tailgating me (have defined tailgating in previous post) and proceeded to make illegal and hazardous overtake on the inside lane in between two roundabouts.
Immediately following this incident found self - without having made concious decision to that effect - pressing foot down hard on accelerator; coming within one metre of the offending vehicle (now in front of me), all the while laughing like madwoman and shouting "How do you like that, huh, how do you like it when I'm up your ......" etcetera.

Once again going to meditate on importance of remaining calm in the face of adversity.

Spent day and a half in Bellingen with auntie Mia, preparing and consuming banana-bread, pizza, pancakes, cinnamon rolls and so on. Behaved like what I have come to term a "junk-vegetarian." Is lovely to be one every once in a while.

Yet, important to recognise that vegetarians and vegans who promote high-carb diets (because this is the most healthy diet long-term) are surprisingly not referring to those particular foods (refined flour and sugar). Similarly, would not advise vegetarians to replace meat (an animal protein) with dairy (another animal protein). Could go on for hours, but will give it a rest for today.

Have loads of lovely Bellingen-pictures that have promised auntie Mia to upload, enjoy:

View from auntie Mia's residence

Pizza, the cornerstone of any high-carb diet

Bellingen River Festival

"Verandah Days" - poem heard at poetry reading, also Mia's description of life in Bellingen.