Australia Day Festivities

Well Hello there Twenty Thirteen!

After old and new years celebrations were over January - known as "The Birthday Month" in my immediate family because my Mother's, mine and a dear friends' are - whose special day falls on the 26th - Australia Day!

I was reading the Clarence City council News and came across the - 'What's on in Clarence' and was ecstatic to discover 2 activities of interest. The first being Saturday 26 January - Australia Day Breakfast On The Bellerive Boardwalk including one of the many Australian Citizenship ceremonies (link) around the country and community awards, and the second Vote for your favourite Aussie song and hear it live!



 

Paul queing for our coffee

We arrived at 9.30 approximately and my husband Paul gladly joined the others for their morning caffeine fix...meanwhile I located the Big Breakfast stall to grab ours that included the freshest bread roll which was naughty as I am gluten intolerant...ssh don't tell.



We were then entertained with the song nominations - the top 5 included the ones I nominated online...YAY! That really made my day! I had in years gone by worked in the retail music industry (it was nice to know I hadn't lost my touch), during which we had worked up an appetite vigorously singing along with our song choices and decided to share a decadent Nutella crepe during the Australian Citizenship proceeding...mmm so good.



The musical proceedings were hosted by MC Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes whose songs such as Blister in the Sun (link) featured on various albums over the decades and sold like hotcakes when I sold music for the music chain Brashs in the 90's and probably still do! I wanted to thank him for livening up that part of ceremony and whilst doing so shared with he and his wife Verinda that I was the daughter of an immigrant accepted the offer to come to Australia on a work exchange program to address a skills shortage at the time as he is a Coppersmith.

 

After the proceedings were over we decided to drive to a beach we had never visited and walk off our little food fest' on Cremorne Beach and having lived and been overseas agreed that no matter how far we roam...

 

 

 We still gladly call Australia home! We are so Blessed!



New Years Eve Events

Hello Everyone!

Thought I'd start at the end of the exhausting, nomadic whirlwind of a year that 2012 was eg. moving etc, and the unexpected fun and fantastic beginning of excitement of 2013.

Let's start with New years Eve, Mon 31st Dec wasn't particularly eventlful just the ususal Calisthenics, BLD, a trip to the local Bunnings store, keyboard practise and a brilliant descision on my behalf as it turned out for my husband Paul and I to attend the NYE Festivities!

Naughts & Crosses?

The evening began with desperately tying to find parking close to the Mecure...which we didn't but passed the Moscow Circus before it opened in January for school holidays (iphone shot of it taken out of car window), - but after several laps managed to find one on the Domain to experience both the 9:30pm family fireworks from the Domain (I loved to imagine that the Pirotechnicians had purposefully created naughts & crosses especially for me LOL), & the beautiful cruise ship as a backdrop (read this) and make our way to the Hobart Mecure, have a NYE drink and maybe a bowl of hot chips and Aoili and then stroll across to the Midnight fireworks in Hobart from Kings Pier Marina; where we earlier that week encountered the Hobart winner of the 68th Rolex Sydney Hobart Wild Oats XI.


As it happened the kitchen staff of the Mecure unbeknown to the wait staff had closed after we placed and paid for our order, he then reappeared to announce that the kitchen had CLOSED!

...Surprisingly & thankfully we were offered a $22 cheese platter in lieu of the $7 bowl of hot chips and Aoili which we had already paid for WooHoo!

...By the way Paul is Beer & I am Red wine - which we seldomly do  :-D ...Small isn't it? Ba Ha Ha!

The Midnight fireworks were special too as was the whole night.

Welcome 2013 - "May your latter days be better than your former ones" Amen!