Lunch with Carmel

We were going to have lunch with Carmel and Suzanne today, but Suzanne didn't make it. Louka and I were late, as we just missed a train, so Carmel had been waiting about 10 minutes for us. We met at Basement Books again (so at least she had something to look at) and looked for a nearby eatery. Today, they were almost all closed down! Carmel suggested the renovations of her former office building at Central had significantly reduced the number of workers requiring lunch in the area. Of the three remaining options, the chicken shop seemed the most promising, so Louka and I shared a tub of chicken breasts and some chips while Carmel and I got up to date with what we'd each been doing. Carmel had come all the way from North Sydney, so she couldn't stay all that long, and Louka started demanding a burger (which I thought she deserved since she'd been very patient while Carmel and I talked) so we weren't able to walk with her back to the station.