Big Days

Triabunna is proving a popular motor home destination this year.  The free-parking area at the back of The Springy pub is chockers, as is the one beside the former butcher's and the other pub.  I took this photo as I emerged from the hotel after a Friends of Triabunna Reserves Gathering and braced myself to wend through the campers to the path at the back of the field that leads home.  I do love living somewhere where other people come to holiday.  It feels like being on holiday every day.

At The Gathering we resolved to pick up rubbish on Esplanade East.  I won't bore / scandalise you with photos of what we collected but I thought I'd share this idyllic photo of a chap working on his boat at a private jetty.  I don't often treat you to scenes of 'the other side', mostly confining my stories to the West side.

Talking of which, I arrived a little early for a Tuesday Lunch at The Village to be greeted by this perfectly set table.  Usually we rush around finding placemats, coasters, cutlery, etc at the last minute.  Dorothy, the pottery teacher, had got there early and set up for us.  Definitely a class act.

The food was beautiful, as usual, and it turned out to be Ingrid's birthday so we had 2 bottles of bubbly...

Then there was the day I heard the gate open, glanced up and there was a vision carrying this cake.  I confided to a neighbour once that Steve loves sponge cakes, so sporadically she pops around with one.  Light as a feather and delicious.

Steve himself is growing fine tomatoes.  At the moment, so is just about everyone else and people try desperately to give them away.  How lucky we are.  Plentiful food and no bombs.

Friday night I drove boldly to Swansea for a 7.30pm concert start.  As the Van Diemen's Band blurb says: NikoTeini, a living testament to a shared cultural heritage, features Niko Papageorgiou on the lavta (long-necked fretted lute) and Foteini Kokkala on the kanonaki (qanun, zither). 

As you can see they played in a rather sparse space.  I sat in the front row  and was mesmerised by their fingerwork but I longed to be sitting on a waterfront eating char-grilled octopus and drinking a chilled white.

Other Big Days have included St Davids Day, Lady Jayne's Birthday, my Mum and Dad's Wedding Anniversary and International Women's Day.  I think I have shown you this before (and I should have closed the blinds against the sunlight) but it seemed apt as I tai chi'd at the Community Health Centre.

This was our Triabunna Tivoli film last night.  It went down a treat, with spontaneous applause from the audience at the end of the show.  That felt good!

Others prefer to stay home for their indulgence...