Our latest Pingaring bookclub night was, as usual, a lot of fun.
Regardless of the bottles of wine, etc, on the table, we do actually discuss the books we read (in among the gossip, as sometimes we don’t get to see each other until the next bookclub six weeks later).
It’s a great group of girls and we have a blast and get to read books we normally wouldn’t pick for ourselves.
Our next read is Dear Fatty by Dawn French – it should be a hoot!
On Saturday we went to Narrogin for Speedway to watch my Dad race. We arrived at Frankie’s shed to pick up Dad’s car and were very impressed with the new paint job.
My Uncle Alan is a signwriter so it comes in handy and with a few helpers they had put on new panels and spruced the Falcon up. (Most of them being Holden fans, of course, they’d added a few extra improvements by painting over all Ford badges and stuck on Holden ones)
On the top of the car a sticker reads “Pimp my speedway car performed by:” and a list of mates who’d helped with the makeover. (Dad thanks you all soooo much!)
It was a big night of racing, 30 junior cars had turned up and needed three separate heats.
Dad races in the Street Stock division and started each of his heats at the rear of the field as he’d just spent $$$$ doing up the motor and was running it in gently. (If your wondering why he’s at the back of the pack in the pic’s)
I’m into my new book called The Cleanest Cut and went to the Woolorama especially to watch the clean shears and gain some knowledge for the book.
Cheers to Julene and Jason for introducing me to Nigel Reid who gave me the lowdown on the clean shears and how the points work, etc.
It was greatly appreciated seeing as Nigel was soon off to shear in the Open.
He’s in the red singlet and was the first to bung out his starting sheep in around a minute and eight seconds.
I really enjoyed watching the shearing and came away happy and confident to continue with the book.
For all interested our winner in the Open was Mark Buscomb who did his 10 sheep in a time of 14.52 and an overall score of 64.80.
We recently went to Woolorama at Wagin, I needed information for the next book, and so we tramped around with the kids.
They had a few rides and ate plenty of stuff that sends them silly, but overall it was a great day.
I really liked the vehicles on parade and especially liked Kathleen’s recently finished ute.
Does this old girl still go…for sure!
This post hole digger belongs to my uncle and we borrowed it to do all our post holes for our fence around the house.
Beats doing them by hand. It’s a tow start job, and you need to put air in the tyres and fill it up with oil, but she still runs.
They don’t make them like that anymore.
They certainly are! I get beautiful deep yellow eggs full of goodness. I have five chooks and four young chicks, which have grown up so fast.
They live in the enclosure with our fruit trees and they ate all my grapes this year so I will have to be on the ball next year and get in first.
This is only the second year for all the fruit trees and they are going great guns (they should be – some of the tractor tyres they are growing in are worth thousands … one is near new but has a hole – what a waste of money!).
