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Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Protection

I'm not against protecting small children from an untimely end, but our pool fencing laws are now progressive to the point of draconian. One wonders if the pool fence at the wading pool in Tewantin is to stop swimmers stumbling into the river, or is it to stop boaters falling into the pool?

View From the Bakery

Tired out from the show? Well why not stop at the Bakery at Noosaville for a quiet coffee and a spot of watching the world go by.

One more thing..

It occurred to me that we've spent a whole month at the show and haven't had anything to eat.

How about some chips smothered in barbecue sauce and swamped with salt?

That ought to keep us alive till next year!

Farewell from Nambour for a time.

Nambour Eye

London has one, and now so has Nambour.

The main difference is that from the top of this ferris wheel, one can see the budgie pavillion.

One can't do that in London.

With that, let's call it quits from the Nambour Show for a few weeks eh? I've had enough!

Sideshow Fun

I want to be eaten by the sabre toothed tiger mummy.

Can I?

Pleeeeeaaaase?

I really have trouble understanding this new generation.

Nambour Show

Agriculture

Dairy cows get an evil glint in their eye just seconds before they attempt to swallow your camera whole.

Dairy cattle at the Nambour Show

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While the Cattleman's away.

While the cattleman is tucked up safely in his bar, the lady folk are making good use of the cow wash. What evil mind would allow smoking in the middle of an area where people are spraying hoses?

The Cattlemans Bar

The Cattlemans Bar looks strangely like a public toilet to me, but the sign seems convinced.

Sadly there are apostrophes missing all over the country these days, having been officially removed from all place names, they now seem to be fading from other situation as well.

And then there's the literal translation, which infers that the bar is indeed very tiny. Perhaps large enough for a solitary cattleman.

Cornflake Biscuits with Raisins

My mum used to make these, and I reckon hers would have won first prize!

The "Agriculture Show" isn't just about agriculture of course, there's art and handiwork and crafts, but you'll have to believe me as far as the rest is concerned.

Meanwhile in the Photography Pavillion

I thought it had been too long since I'd posted a pic that looked a bit "building", it's not good enough to win a ribbon though.

Perhaps I should enter something from this blog next year?

Budgies

They are native to our outback skies, these little fellows, although in the wild they are green and nowhere near as fat as these monster show budgies.

If they were any bigger they'll be showing them as poultry and eating their eggs!

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Chooks

In America they're called chickens, but that's what we call little chooks!

"Show hens" on show, winter 2010!

Wanna cuddle a snake?

Garry the snake man had an amazing affinity with people as well, calmly talking and caressing them through the whole "nurse my snake he won't bite, he's a python" affair.

Dont pythons crush their meals before swallowing them whole?

Sideshow Alley

There are quite a few bits of Nambour that are just really pleasant, with the topography providing a green hilly background at every turn. The showgrounds is one of those places.

I couldn't have provided a better montage of the goings on if I'd layered it in photoshop, (which I haven't.)

Shoot 'em up.

I must be getting old.

I know boys will be boys, and I know we all played cowboys and indians when we were kids. But we didn't point laser powered assault weapons at one another.

Shooting at a sideshow was a tin ducks moving along a conveyor, not at other kids who were shooting back. Somehow this is all too real for me, except for the lack of maimed and dying for those on the receiving end!