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Tuesday 26^th March 2019 (day 49).

I woke up this morning with the happy ending of Ranji having reconnected with his family and finally found a new use for That wretched unsalable Tyre as a potter’s wheel in our bedtime group book The Tyre. And the peaceful image of the turquoise tree-house enveloped in sweet, cool dew and a hint of salt in the navy blue night air originating from the nearby sea amongst the towering redwoods with their silk soft yet almost crocodilian bark in every direction as far as the eye can see from the Headspace tree-house sleepcast. Alas that was all last night, so I must move on to…    

Today was the day when we were to settle into our deluxe (although I know and respect that Mother doesn’t agree with that description) apartment in Battambang.

We, thankfully, started off the day with a cosy, cuddly lie-in (it was just so nice to have a proper bed after that rock-solid mattress on the floor in Kbal Damrei) until it got too hot to just sit around. So, after a few domestic chores including some of this very blog, we began our breakfast dispute; I wanted to go to the café that Juan had previously recommended but Mother and Father refused so we PassApped (Cambodian Tuk tuk booking) to Café Eden Where Father had a gargantuan breakfast and I had an even bigger one!!

After that adventure we went on the biggest and longest pair of shopping trips that I’ve ever experienced before (a truly emotional milestone), we bought;

A mop, 10 Tupperware’s, a giant (bucket)-shower bowl, A colander, a smaller bowl, 20 coat- hangers, 2 waist paper baskets, a giant block of cheddar, some feta, a cabbage, a 4 dollar goose egg, a gallon of milk with 5 days left before its sell-by date, vinegar + oil, and so, so, so, much more.

All in all, however, we only ended up spending an odd $145?

It still remains a mystery to me how as little as one large egg can cost $4, and so much as we bought all in all can only cost $145 within the same shop.

We ended the day with the founding of a new bedtime group book; Wonder.

P.S. From now on every one of my blogs is going to include a mystery photograph; which, if you wish to, you may try to guess/figure out where it came from and what it is in a comment (I will then dissolve the puzzle in my next blog)…

Today’s mystery photograph is: