Jim & Lilly's Wedding

Jim and Lilly tied the knot on a beautiful Autumn day in April at the Lady of Rosary's Church in Fairfield?

Reception was at the Crystal Palace Reception centre in Hoxton Park? The wrong address was printed on the invites and using the GPS got us to a residential area with no reception centre in sight. Lucky for the old Street Directory which listed the function centre.
The food was a banquet of seafood dishes, oysters, crab, lobster, prawns, fish, scallops.
The entertainment was a plenty with a female asian Shakira lookalike and other singers, both male and female. The bride and groom danced their waltz as well as putting on a show with a dance number which could have been straight from SYTYCD

Thank you Jim & Lilly for including me in your day of Days.

Our Yabbies

 

Taken from the dam in Armidale, these yabbies managed to survive being caught and kept in a bucket overnight as well as an 8 hour car ride back to Sydney. Two have got names, Sebastian and Scarby, but the rest are nameless.

Easter Holidays with the Thams

Easter Holidays 2-4 April 2010

Casey invited us up to join him and his family for Easter at Armidale. They were staying at his Uncle Kev and Aunty Julie's property which is just outside of Armidale city.

So on Good Friday, Evan and Ken came by to pick me up around 7.30am so that we could get to Bindy's place by 8.00am, to have breakfast of hotdogs and switch cars as they would be driving Ange's new Rav "Bella". We left their place in Artarmon around 8.30am to get to Pymble and Aunty Lois' place around 9am. We were to meet up with Casey, Shirley and Matty, who would be travelling up with Nanna.

Left Pymble on the dot at 9.30am to drive to Armidale. Bindy drove the first leg. Following Casey's schedule, we got to Newcastle turnoff and continued until we got to turnoff to Stroud - Buckett's Way. Stopped at Stroud for brunch, I had scones with jam and cream, while others had toasted sandwiches or muffins with ice chocolate, lattes, mochas, hot chocolate, etc.

While on the farm, we learnt how to load, shoot and lock a rifle. This was in readiness for a Easter rabbit hunt. No Easter egg hunt for us, we were after the real thing. Uncle Kevin drove while we took turns riding in the cabin or back tray of the ute. Driving down gullys and over tree branches, Casey looked after us in the back, whilst U. Kev explained the ins and outs of rabbit hunting. Everyone managed to learn how to fire the rifle but only a few of us actually shot a rabbit.

 

We were spoilt every morning with a full on country breakfast of bacon, eggs, sausages, tomatoes, fruit and salad.

Besides meeting the cows, chasing the chooks and harvesting A. Julz's vegie patch, we also tried our hand at yabbie catching.