What I Did Do Yesterday, sort of
Jan. 27th, 2011 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithI 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.
The display of sports equipment included this fishing gear. I recruited a random stranger to pose for me.
The gum boot throwing (you might note the random stranger now running the competition). Behind that, there's a bunch of kids playing cricket in the nets, the blacksmith and the tents for the hair braiding & face painting. And in front is the ladder covering the drain so people wouldn't trip over the drain, but whoever put it down didn't see the bloody hole just to the right of it.
Once of the dancers just as she finished (bah).
The Rotary guys doing a mass sausage cook.
"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.
The display of sports equipment included this fishing gear. I recruited a random stranger to pose for me.
The gum boot throwing (you might note the random stranger now running the competition). Behind that, there's a bunch of kids playing cricket in the nets, the blacksmith and the tents for the hair braiding & face painting. And in front is the ladder covering the drain so people wouldn't trip over the drain, but whoever put it down didn't see the bloody hole just to the right of it.
Once of the dancers just as she finished (bah).
The Rotary guys doing a mass sausage cook.
