Ihave a fortnightly tradition.

I get in the car, usually on a Thursday, drive across the Story Bridge and then onto the M3, south out of the city. It’s after peak hour and it’s dark, and the traffic is thinning.

Indooroopilly Shopping Centre in Brisbane’s south-west.

It’s not a long journey, just to Exit 14, onto Logan Road. Then into the imposing multi-level carpark at the southeastern end of Garden City (yeah, technically it’s Westfield Mount Gravatt these days, but to me – and heaps of you, I’m sure – it’s forever Garden City).

There’s a destination – 1919 Lanzhou Noodle for some hand-pulled noodles in brisket soup – but in some ways, it’s incidental. A 1919 Lanzhou opened not too long ago in the CBD a block from my office, after all.

Really, I’m here to be around people. Thursday

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