Indian Summer

On Saturday evening we headed down to Wodonga city centre for the annual festival, Carnivale Wild.

I say city centre as that's strictly what it is, but it's more like a small town centre - just like Rhyl really.

One thing we love about Australia in general, and this region in particular, are the amount of community based events organised by local towns and cities. In this region alone we have the Tallangata Fifties Festival, the Country Muster, Rutherglen Wine Festival and the Beechworth Celtic Festival to name but a few. This weekend was Wodonga's turn and it didn't disappoint.

The High Street and surronding roads were closed and the whole town centre was full of people, stalls, beer tents, food outlets and performing artistes.

The girls did the usual stuff, got their faces painted, made masks and got temporarily tattooed. There were some great bands on and we sat out, on a beautiful night, until about eleven o'clock.

We really are enjoying an extended summer over here. It's been in the twenties for the last few weeks, but this week it's risen to the mid thirties again like it was in December and January. And they reckon it's gonna get hotter, culminating in weekend temperatures of 38 degrees, which is bad news for me as I'll be spending the next two days on someone's baking hot roof installing solar heating for their pool.

It ain't 'alf hot mum.