Farewell to my darling dad

 Well after a long struggle of 2 and half years my darling dad took his last breath infront of me and a couple of other family members on the 30 th October 2020. I never knew the feelings that laid ahead of me up until this day. The day after his funeral. I just couldn’t attend his private family funeral as I just couldn’t go thru it..to see his coffin sitting there and nothing I could do about it just the pain of knowing what was going to happen was unbearable so instead I decided to come to Bondi for a few days and spend time reminiscing my darling dad.  I left home on an early morning train to the city. I got to Bondi around lunch and after checking into my apartment I went and did some exploring 








This was were I stayed at Bondi Meriton Apartments. Monday morning the 9th November I decided to walk to Bondi which was a fair walk but all down hill  I decided to have a mocha at MacDonald and had noticed a rather large aboriginal lady ahead of me walking and she also went into MacDonald but just sat waiting...I waited for the cafe staff to come over to me but in the mean time the lady came over and asked if I could buy her an egg and bacon muffin. I said yeah I can. Next thing she wanted a cafe latte so I said 10$ maximum.. so my coffee ending up costing me 15.55$. Oh well my good deed done for the day..I walked to the beach for a sit and drink my coffee I caught the bus back to the junction and decided to go to the Easts League club for a beer and play on the pokies. And this is what happened
I stuck it lucky and after 3 beers I left the place very quickly with 700$ in my pocket..I really don’t remember how much I put in..I didn’t really care but it paid for my three nights in the apartment..
  My trip to Manly with my dad in mind.. next

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