munch munch

the kitchen was a scary prospect at lunchtime, so i ventured out for a sandwhich. i had plans to come home afterwards and nut out my majors for next year, but it was just too darn sunny, so i decided to walk a little. i've only been in the neighbourhood perhaps four, five months (heidelberg/rosanna-ish) and hadn't really wandered around at all. i wasn't expecting a lot, to be honest, and just thought i'd spend an hour or so soaking up that sun vitamin. you know, vitamin... um... s. s for sun.


what i found, though, was pretty interesting. on a typically suburban residential street, squeezed between a couple of very ordinary looking houses, was heidelbergs oldest cemetary, perhaps a dozen stone markers in place on what seemed like just a vacant block of land, albeit a very overgrown one. i could see why i'd never noticed it while driving. there's something surreal about finding things like this in the middle of what really could have been any street in melbourne. i've seen something similar before, on seperation street in northcote, but this one really had the sense of being forgotten. i'm going to go back and take some photos. i also wondered what it was like to live right next to a graveyard. some of them were born before the first fleet even made it here.


then i pretended i was an old man and spent the rest of my walk looking into the windows of op-shops that were closed.