Community Service Announcement

I've just been having a tidy-up of the emails in my secondary account (the one I use for LJ) and I re-read tabouli's comment insinuating an impending visit to my fair home town - the "city by the sea", as tourism commercials proclaimed it in the 1980s (conveniently ignoring the many other sea-neighbouring cities that exist around the world).

So for any reader who may be heading to THE city by the sea, I offer a tourism suggestion: as you approach the city centre from, say, Deakin University (but closer to the city centre than to Deakin), driving on the highway, you will pass a motel with a plaster whale out the front. A large bright blue whale, which is a hideous eyesore of a fake beastie. There are also metal whales' tails poking out of the garden. If that's not exciting enough, if you wait long enough, the whale will spout water out its blowhole (and over you, if you happen to walk past, as I frequently do). Guaranteed to be the most exciting thing you will experience on your visit.*

Bon voyage!

*as long as the rest of the visit is very dull.