Do you mind if I fix it later?

Before we came we had heard a lot about the more relaxed Aussie pace of life, and we got our first taste of this yesterday morning.

We ordered a take away coffee the waitress (or should that be barrista) asked '"do you mind if I fix it later for you?".
This was at 7:50am on a weekday within walking distance of the city high-rise blocks...I can't imagine that happening back home in the city rush hour!

This conversation took place on the way to the Queen Victoria Market, which apparently is the largest open-air market in the southern hemisphere and fortunately for us is just around the corner. For the Londoners, it is a little like a much much larger Spitalfields with more of a bias on fresh food and of course plenty of fresh fish of all kinds.
As Little Miss was up so ridiculously early (see yesterday's post at 4:30am) we got down there for about 8am, where she promptly fell asleep in her buggy for the next 3 hours as we pushed her around! The luxury of being an 8 month old! Anyway the market trip was a success for me (Dom) as we managed to get bananas for $2.50 (1 pound) a kilo which is close to the UK price. I had become quite worried about the price of bananas after Cyclone Larry last year! Of course the Market caters to people without a banana obsession too with a huge range of fruit, veg, meat and fish and I can see us becoming regulars every morning, at least whilst we are in this apartment.

We're off shopping for baby things today, a task made much easier by the loan of a car from Barney and Carolyn - thank you, you are too generous - and we're also going to take Maddie swimming in her first outdoor pool! She will also get her first "big girl" forward-facing car seat too.

Right, better go or we'll never get anything done (need to move early if it's going to be as hot as yesterday when they stopped play at the Australian Open tennis due to it being 40.8C!).