Fifty for Fifi

When Fi and I had been becoming closer online for a while, I came over to Australia for a brief visit.

Fi picked me up from the airport and we headed up the coast towards Montville. On the way we realise we’d deprived ourselves of good choices for dinner in a rural area and so we stopped off in Landsborough to see what the pickings were in a corner store there.

I did something I occasionally do, and burst into song. I can’t tell you what the song was but I can tell you Fi was not there for it and I was quickly shushed.

She’s since told me that she regretted that moment, and decided in the instant that she was wrong for doing so and my spontaneity was something about me she valued and needed.

We had another such moment when we went out for breakfast the next morning. We’d both ordered some version of the big breakfast and near the end of mine I cut the rinds off the bacon and rather than eating the bacon I ate the rinds, something I’d loved doing since I was a kid.

It was a funny weekend overall. It had started to storm on the way up and we repeatedly checked in with the owners of the place we were staying to at make sure they knew we were still on the way. We got there and the owner came out pointedly wearing a dressing gown despite the fact that we were, in fact, still twenty minutes before the final checkin time.

It really was a magical few days together. We came up with many of the silly pet names we still call each other and I can still remember the agony of having to leave and go through security at the airport because another storm was coming in and Fi needed to get home safe.

Today’s song is a nice groove by Boney M, the band created by German Producer Frank Farian who was later famous for being the brains behind MIlli Vanilli. Like Milli Vanilli, Boney M. were largely lipsync performer’s for Farian’s stable of session performers, but unlike Milli Vanilli they kept quiet about it.

The video features the amazing and expressive dancing of Bobby Farrell, which is how I imagine Fi saw me when I started up my antics in that corner store in Landsborough.