Lamb Cutlets

 Thursday 25 March

Awoke to s drizzly, coolish day this morning. However, Melbourne’s famous weather has been pretty good for the entire trip and we have not needed the thermal underwear, scarfs and gloves we packed in anticipation of an early winter. In fact, we carried our coats today as it was too warm to wear them. Joanne finished work yesterday and will start her new job in a few weeks, so on her first day of leisure, she accompanied Lady P and Flashy to Collingwood to look at funky eye glass frames. Flashy decided that he didn’t want to look like Clark Kent, as all the men’s frames were 1950’s throw backs, so he sat in the big lounge chair (probably reserved for bored husbands) and waited until Lady P had secured her watermelon and black funky frames. On the way back, we stopped off at Victoria Gardens shopping centre to get some lamb for tonight’s dinner. ‘I’d like 15 cutlets, please,’ was greeted with, ‘the butcher is on a 15 min break, come back later.’ Good on you Woolworths, you bunch of wankers! Luckily Flashy has a sharp knife, so he snaffled the three remaining racks of lamb and took them home and ‘Frenched’ them himself. Turned out cheaper by weight, so a win to us. We had a glass of Pol Roger Reserve with Christopher and Sam while Nanny P helped with the baths, then back to our flat for those delicious lamb cutlets and a little Wirra Wirra Church Block.