Do you ever...?

Do you ever stride purposefully into a room of your house and then stop...because you realise you've forgotten the reason why you wanted to go to that room???
Do you ever open the fridge door and realise you can't remember what you wanted to get out of the refrigerator?
Do you ever go grocery shopping with a list and then not get the item first on the list? (ha ha! I now write that item again somewhere else in the list!)
Do you ever drop in prescriptions to the chemist and then do some shopping...and then drive off home without going back to collect and pay for the medicines???
Well I do, and have done, all of these things and more! But last Thursday was a first...
I had had a lovely day with 2 friends at the Queensland Art Gallery and after I had been home for a while, I realised that something was missing...I found this disc in my handbag...

Yep! I had not collected my bag from the cloak room. I had put an umbrella and a pair of sunglasses in my bilum to cover any eventuality in the weather and had checked the bag into the cloakroom when Cheryl and I had arrived at the gallery.
So on Friday, after a call to the gallery, I had another trip into the city to collect my bag and hand back the disc! Luckily, because I had rung, my bilum/bag had been put to one side and not sent to Lost property; that would have entailed a bit more work to get my property back. DH drove me into the city, dropped me off near the museum, and then drove around South Brisbane while I raced inside.

The bilum that DH bought me while he worked in PNG for AusAid...

Umbrella and sunnies back after spending the night in the QAG! lol

Dear DH then detoured a bit on the drive home...we had never been to the Police Barracks Redevelopment at Petrie Terrace, so DH suggested a stop there...it's very nice there with a mix of shops, cinemas and some very interesting looking cafes and restaurants, including a favourite of ours, The French Twist...I love their cafe at Chermside...so we went into the Barracks' one for coffee. This cafe is on the ground floor of the historical former police barracks and the building has been beautifully restored.

Here are some other photos from a website...

The old brick building sat unused and unloved for so many years...

So I guess if I had have remembered to pick up that bag from the cloakroom on Thursday, I would have missed out on spending a pleasant half hour or so at 'The Barracks' on Friday afternoon . :-)