Woke up on Friday morning to find that 6 mushrooms had grown in our bedroom overnight! Turns out that the heavy rain that we have experienced in the past couple of weeks has been a bit too much for our balcony doors & so has seeped through & into the carpet….the damp, humid conditions have been perfect for mould & fungi to grow. It took me a lot of effort to stop Lucy eating them, but despite magic mushrooms been illegal in Oz we are hoping to at least sample some when we take a trip up to Byron for my birthday (if we manage to stay here that long - unlikely).
On Saturday we spent a bit of time at Freshwater Beach & for the first time I experienced waves coming at me from both the ocean & the beach…peculiar. Lucy wasn’t a big fan of the large waves, or the cold water (thought it was mild myself). Later, we headed into the CBD to see Gomez play a gig at the Metro Theatre. A really good, intimate venue with plenty of bars, staff to serve & toilets. The first act up was the Panda Band - pretty good apart from the poor 1st song - who reminded me of The Coral in their use of old-school instruments. Then came a huge, grizzly bear type Californian bloke called White Buffalo who treated us to a one-man show of upbeat country music. And finally, around 10.30pm Gomez hit the stage & they were much, much better than I thought they would be…..even though they didn’t play my favourite song of theirs – Whipping Piccadilly – the 2.5 hour set was superb….they do look like one of the geekiest bands alive though. My observation was that the front three (6 man band) looked like Vic Reeves, Chris Martin & Stato (from Fantasy Football)…. Whilst the bass player was the most laid back I have seen, hardly moving from his spot for the whole show….they probably have to nudge him from time to time to see if he’s still alive!
Sunday we headed to the Olympic Park for the Easter Show….basically a lot of ‘country folk’ coming to the city for a fortnight to show off their animals, arts & crafts….this too was a superb event, with everything very well organized – think the Aussies could teach the UK a thing or two about organizing events. The activities included, amongst others, a cattle market, dog & cat shows (made me miss Spot), variety of food stalls & a fair ground. However, the highlights of the day for me were the wood-chopping (not sure how they don’t have more serious injuries), the rodeo (one bloke was thrown off a bucking horse & you could see his arm snap, yet he still got up to celebrate) & the end of the show (motorbikes doing incredible tricks, Holden’s zooming around the ring, and a Lady Cannonball who managed to give the most unconvincing “That was really exciting” of all time). The electric storm in the distance also provided a wonderful backdrop to the show & the following firework display.Would definitely avoid the tepid sausage on a stick dipped in tomato ketchup though….made me want to puke.
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