Heritage Festival

A very hectic three days involvement here with the Jondaryan Heritage Festival is now over, Loved every minute of it!

Had a great time with all the other volunteers (well over one hundred of us) Lucille spent all her time helping the camp cook Audrey feed us all, she was in the kitchen by 5.30am and not back to the van till after washing up the tea dishes, some very long days and all the cooking done on two very old wood fired ovens in a bough shed, only traditional stuff here!

My time was divided between helping run the camp oven stew stand and working in the whip plaiters demonstration shed, it was great to meet some of the other members of the whip plaiters association that I am a member off, only a couple of us in Tasmania but this area has many members and they meet on a regular basis to run workshops etc.

On Saturday night we had a BBQ followed by a bush dance in the wool shed, the place was packed to the rafters and a great night, everyone joining in with the dancing and all the kids had a great time as did the adults, in fact the whole weekend has been a wonderful family event, we can highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.

On Monday Jan and Ron arrived, good to see some friends from home, today we had happy hour and tea together compliments of left over catering food that was given to Lucille.

Looking forward to a day off tomorrow, the Storays and us are going for a drive to Nobby and will have lunch at the pub there that is famous for being the pub where Steele Rudd used to frequent and write most of his material for the Dad and Dave serials and his books.

The weather has been mostly very good, sunny days and not to hot, in fact we have had a couple of frosty mornings, quite chilly, making us feel right at home!