An outing with the lads

If you you are flying with Singapore Airlines from Chennai to Melbourne via Singapore, you will receive a lot of solicitous attention by airline staff if you are a nice looking dark skinned Indian lad with perfect white teeth and a wide smile, along with an outgoing personality and beautifully painted fingernails.

Yesterday's visit to Costco with Phyllis and Kosov was very interesting. It was a bad arthritis pain day for me, but they were patient with my need to sit on a chair with a back for as few minutes at times. 

Are these sculptures interesting? I didn't find them so. There was some external seating but gum trees at best offer dappled sunlight, not shade. 

We did travel on the wheel with Hippie Niece many years ago, we didn't find the view of train shunting yards or distant views out to sea very interesting, which is why I guess the wheel sits there unused and waiting for a buyer. 

 

While I knew Costco sold large quantities, I did not imagine the variety of what was available. Just the food was quite astonishing. I did note CK men's shirts at a bargain price of AU$40, probably two years old but generally, you have to buy a lot of things there to make decent savings. Fine if you have storage space and a large and hungry family. Even the cakes were impressive. There is a cafe within where you order your food on a screen and it is quickly delivered to you. The area was so busy and I knew not what to do, I insisted we go somewhere else where there was somewhere proper to eat, and we ended up at Urban Alley Brewery, where we shared some food. 

Phyllis linked his arm with mine on one side and Kosov's in the other as we walked. What will people think, I wondered, but I didn't care. While we were a bit separated on trams going to Cocklands Docklands, we boarded a tram at the Waterfront City terminus to return home and quickly nabbed a facing set of seats. The foreplay was on! They poked each other, they tried to bite each other, they punched each other, they hugged each other, they ruffled each others hair and they cuddled. I alternated between looking out the tram window at the passing scenery and seeing what other tram passengers were noticing. No one was noticing at all, as I could see, except for the man who's reflection I could see in the glass partition in front of me. He was of Chinese heritage and was watching their shenanigans intently.  

I kicked them off with running them a bath with Japanese salts a couple of days ago, and they chose to bathe early this evening, this time separately, which was much quieter and less splashy. The bath salts were a gift from Our Friend in Japan, who is currently in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 

My dinner was left overs in the fridge, mostly their food. They spent about three hours in the kitchen cooking puff pastry envelopes filled with...I know not what but they are very tasty. Phyliss' short hand recipe. 

This may be a place to place a video filmed by an acquaintance a few months ago, of two lads in love walking along Swanston Street. Gay men being affectionate in public is a bit alien to me, but I like it.