What I made, by Sharon

 The day after we got back from the hike was Yom Kippur, so I took the rest of the week off. Unpacking and cleaning hiking gar can be a lot! On Thursday Elise and I did our traditional, non-religious Yom Kippur hang, then Leon and I went to the theatre in the evening. Friday was for relaxing, and then we hosted my parents for dinner. On Saturday we planned a little trip Northside - it's funny, because it's one suburban bus and about 20 minutes away, but I just tend to stay in the city or south of the river. We went to a hot sauce shop and tried (and bought) hot sauce. We then went to Aunty Peg's, a fancy coffee shop that won't put milk in coffee. i got a nitro coffee, which was delicious, and funny, since generally i don't like nitro beer. Then we went to Molly Rose, to collect our beanies from going to every Pint of Origin  venue with year. Now I have two commercial beanies to celebrate drinking. On our way through we stopped at the Lululemon outlet. we haven't...

 Just before I left on my hike I finished  Restitution  by Tamar Shapiro , a very good, thoughtful NetGalley review book. I figured on the trip I would read my next book    The Worst Thing I've Ever Done  by Clare Stephens , another NetGalley review book.  what actually happened was, just before we left Leon got offered Murder on the Great Ocean Walk , by Isobel Balckthorn.  It wan't a particularly good book, but the characters walked the very same walk we were doing, and it was amusing. instead of eye reading my own book, Leon read my this one while I knit. i was glorious. The hike itself was fabulous - 6 days and 5 nights of walking on a track that wanders the cliffs, where the Great Ocean road goes inland. the campsites were lovely, 4 of them had ocean views.  we got our food and supplies just right, and even though it rained quite a lot one day, we stayed dry and happy.  We saw three echidna, two wallabies and one snake. it was a ver...