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She Bought A Bakery Pt 2 - The Adelaide Report.

She Bought A Bakery Pt 2 - The Adelaide Report.

Mar 01, 2024
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The driver asked me if he could take a call.

I said of course.

“Inshallah,” he said. Was it to me, to his caller, who knows?

Wait, if he was about to take a call now, then who has he been talking to the whole time?

The morning chill feels different when you’re heading to the airport to catch a 6.30am, when you’re not delivering bread.

After chatting with Diem electronically in Fukuoka last month, I jokingly said ‘hey, one of these days, if Chika and Hana are going away to scout camp, I could go and shoot the bakery for you’.

She cocked her head sideways and said, yea, I don’t mind flying you over, pay you a day rate to document Butter.

Inshallah.

Little did I know Chika and Hana had scout camp four weeks later, in February.

I texted Diem, saying ‘How about that job?’

She came back within hours, ‘yup discussed with Paul, all good to go’.

Inshallah.


I landed around 7.45am, Diem picked me up in her Jimny, and we headed straight to Butter.

So, in case you’re wondering, the photos in the last post were mine.
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