The rest of the Roadies arrived today and were squeezed onto sites in this small park. The owners are very helpful and produced our first group dinner – lasagne with vegetables.
This morning we drove into town for coffees. I was busy admiring the plentiful flow of water in the Darling River, thinking Anita would be a while getting the coffees, but she was waiting for me in the car. We went to Cooee on Coffee which is a training enterprise run by the Catholic Church. Locals are taught how to make coffee, serve food and drinks etc to give them employment skills and knowledge.
It was a lovely sunny day so Anita did multiple loads of washing. Tilly decided the clean towels made a comfy bed.
Beccy put this newspaper article on her Facebook page. We still are shocked Libby left their relationship with no warning there was any problem, and made no attempt to deal with issues, or explain why she was leaving. We should have been suspicious as Libby is not keen on cats or dogs!! Beccy has brought her very old dog on tour with her, fully expecting Stevie will not be making the return trip home with her.
Blue needed to have his annual vaccinations so we took him to the local vet. I liked the vet’s friendly and professional manner. She gave him two injections, vaccine up his nose for immediate protection from kennel cough, checked his heart and ears, did a quick clean of a couple of his back teeth, trimmed his claws, and finally expressed his anal glands. Blue trembled through his entire 15 minute visit to the vet, even though I held him the whole time.
This evening while the sunset lingered in the sky, Beccy and her team welcomed all of the Roadies, and jokingly warned of the consequences of bad behaviour – a fine which will be contributed to the fund-raising effort for this tour. The money raised will go towards helping the Hussy Hicks replace some of their musical equipment lost in the floods.
Each of our artists performed two songs this evening. New Roadies may not have seen or heard of some these other talented musicians, but they will get to know them over the next two weeks.
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