It was a dark and stormy night ...
Lastnight I went over to the city after work and joined the frenzy at the MYER stocktake sale. I was actually just wanting to look at the mattresses, because my Mum is quite insistent that I get a new one, so I had to fight my way right up to level 6, feeling a little out of patience with people who just stand there on escalators, and wanting to get out of there as soon as possible before the temptation to find another few hundred bargains took over me. Did you know, that you can spend $2899 on a single bed mattress? And that is just the mattress! And just a single mattress! I was simply staggered at what has happened to the price of beds since last time I looked. So, anyway, then I caught the bus home from the city, and it was dark and raining and the bus just seemed to take forever to get to my suburb. From where I got off I had to walk past Camperdown Cemetery to get home. It's incredibly old (by Australian standards) and just a little spooky. There are many large, old, upright gravestones that anything could hide behind, and it's dark on that stretch of the street. That and it was later than usual and a little deserted owing to the rain. I had just walked past the old wrought-iron gates leading into the cemetery when the night was shattered by a sudden dreadful snarling, lunging growl from right on the other side of the fence, followed by a piercing shriek and that died away. I stopped dead on the footpath and willed myself to turn around. Then I heard "oh I knew you were going to do that".It turns out the whole thing was some kind of lark set up for the guy who was walking down the footpath behind me. Eventually I laughed too. But they took years off the life of poor, unsuspecting me!
On a brighter note, amongst the tombstones of the many famous people buried in this cemetery, including the tomb of Bathsheba Ghost (rather disappointing that that was just her name - if I believed in ghosts, tortured souls wandering through the night looking for loves lost and children taken before their time I'd think Bathsheba, as we know her story in the bible, would be a likely possibility!) you'll find this plaque.