Saturday 22nd April, BlazeAid camp, Rotary Park, ECHUCA. 9°-23°C.
I have had a week off duties here with a trip home and on to Bairnsdale for a family event. It’s gratifying to be warmly welcomed back on Wednesday. One cook has left so the other has been managing single-handedly in my absence. She is not a dessert cook or baker. Ice creams in cones and supermarket biscuits have been the standard so my first job back is baking!
A vanilla cake and another eight dozen Anzac biscuits…
Then a heavy cold/man flu begins working its way through the group and the kitchen staff is down to one. Me…
Covid tests all round are negative and I pin my hopes on my great immunity history, having dodged Covid three times.
Today is the annual Echuca Moama car club swap meet. Set up began yesterday, requiring us to move our vans away from the toilet block. Action begins this morning at 5.00am with quad bikes zipping around the park. Not my favourite time of day. I doze and am next woken at 8.00am by AC-DC working their long way to the top on the local TMFM radio station, broadcasting from a marquee opposite.
People stream in with shopping trolleys. There is a preponderance of big, bushy beards. The stalls have predominantly car junk - undoubtedly precious to some - but I’m done looking very quickly and retreat to our kitchen to work on Mexican pulled beef for enchiladas tonight and the sticky date pudding I have previously promised…
The former turns out to be a real winner…
2025-02-11