{"id":2171,"date":"2020-05-18T13:31:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suewoolfe.com.au\/pages\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2020-08-16T05:41:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T05:41:15","slug":"day-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suewoolfe.com.au\/pages\/day-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 61"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s easy to prise oysters off the rocks, though not always easy to pierce the shell when you must slurp them straight away, standing on the beach. But we managed to get about eighteen and roasted them for 5 minutes on PH S’s BBQ, What’s hard is prising them open. PH S showed me how to clamp the oyster in a newspaper glove, while digging at the hinge with a special two sided blade. We might have more luck with oysters than with fish.<\/p>\n

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I saved the remain of breakfast for our new neighbour T, \u00a0but his boat was gone. When I saw it stream into the bay, I put the spare oysters in a bag and began to row towards him, but he set out to \u00a0walk to me. We met at a jetty in between, me steadying my boat against the jetty with a bare and muddy foot. He was bringing me some rock lillies for my garden, because I’d admired his. (The pic up there is Rock Lillies- lovely, aren’t they! From their ugly stalks, you’d never guess). He accepted gladly, said he had an oyster knife, but said, with a sweet boyish shame, that he’d never shucked an oyster. I tried to demonstrate, but it was it’s a difficult thing to do in the air, particularly when you’re holding oars in each hand. I wished i’d done it better. Now writing this at 11.30 pm, I’m worrying he might still be trying to prise them open.<\/p>\n

Overnight, S from New York sends me this: I’m one of those very relieved, and very astonished.<\/p>\n

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Did the Coronavirus Kill Ideology in Australia?<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

How a government both sectarian and divisive learned (briefly) to become inclusive.<\/p>\n

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By Richard Flanagan<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr. Flanagan is a novelist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n