What I Did Do Yesterday, sort of
Jan. 27th, 2011 06:40 pmI got roped into helping with the Australia Day thingy at Evandale. It was my mother's fault.
"Can you get some pictures together to make a competition for me?"
"Oh, if you come out next week, you'll be here for the Australia Day event."
"And when you come on Wednesday, bring your camera and a notebook so you can send something to the Country Courier."
The Evandale Rotary Club organise the Aus Day event. I don't know what they had last year, but I believe it was much the same as the previous year where they had a little ceremony to give out their awards, races for kids and then every had a free sausage and went home. About as exciting as it sounds.
This year, Mother was in charge of organising it and she was a bit more ambitious. She arranged a display of old sporting equipment and another of old radios, a blacksmith and a spinner to do demonstrations, a couple of African women to braid hair, an Indian women to cook, face-painting and other activities for the kids, a gum boot throwing competition and another picture-based competitions, free afternoon tea, sausages and, I think, ice creams, and I believe there was also Scottish & Irish music, and African dancing, and a tug-of-war between the fire brigade and the football but but I missed all those because I was inside supervising the competition (and taking photos and, oh, can you spare me a few minutes to help bang in markers for the gum boot throwing?) I think she was hoping for about 30-40 people. Over 200 turned up.
Despite being busy, I did get some photos taken, but most of them I said was taking for the paper so I won't post them because I can't tell people I'm doing one thing when I take their photo and then do another.
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"Can you get some pictures together to make a competition for me?"
"Oh, if you come out next week, you'll be here for the Australia Day event."
"And when you come on Wednesday, bring your camera and a notebook so you can send something to the Country Courier."
The Evandale Rotary Club organise the Aus Day event. I don't know what they had last year, but I believe it was much the same as the previous year where they had a little ceremony to give out their awards, races for kids and then every had a free sausage and went home. About as exciting as it sounds.
This year, Mother was in charge of organising it and she was a bit more ambitious. She arranged a display of old sporting equipment and another of old radios, a blacksmith and a spinner to do demonstrations, a couple of African women to braid hair, an Indian women to cook, face-painting and other activities for the kids, a gum boot throwing competition and another picture-based competitions, free afternoon tea, sausages and, I think, ice creams, and I believe there was also Scottish & Irish music, and African dancing, and a tug-of-war between the fire brigade and the football but but I missed all those because I was inside supervising the competition (and taking photos and, oh, can you spare me a few minutes to help bang in markers for the gum boot throwing?) I think she was hoping for about 30-40 people. Over 200 turned up.
Despite being busy, I did get some photos taken, but most of them I said was taking for the paper so I won't post them because I can't tell people I'm doing one thing when I take their photo and then do another.
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