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 Well, yesterday was good. Most good, in fact.

I consumed:
  • Three cheese-on-a-sticks (or cheeses-on-a-stick)
  • Three lemonades (what's cheese sans lemonade?)
  • Three chocolate covered strawberries (they were on a skewer, so I don't count them individually, really)
  • Chips coated in cheese sauce (oddly disappointing, actually)
  • Two cokes
There might have been other things, but I don't remember. Oh, and toast before we left, lol.

We saw:
  • Dogs doing fly ball (I wish my dog was patient enough to be trained)
  • Crappy wannabe singers/dancers
  • The produce/district pavilion, which I hated. As usual.
  • The dog pavilion (loved the Viszlas and the Great Danes...One of which was an odd grey/blue colour)
  • A couple of entrants in the dog show (Bull Mastiffs and Cattle Dogs)
  • The arts and crafts pavilion...Which I was tricked into entering.
  • The Woodchopping!! 
I bought:
  • The Wonka Bag (many sweet things and, inexplicably, a straw trilby hat which I wore all day and adore)
  • The Pepsi-Cola bag (full of retro gear and a T-shirt. And Pepsi.)
  • The Marvel Heroes bag (which I got only for the backpack. And Marvel watch.)
  • A bowler hat. Ha! I did it and it looks dashed good.
  • A T-shirt that says, "and Buffy staked Edward. The end." 
  • The Spongebob bag for Ben. Which he loved.
At the end of the night they did some stupid as hell True Blue thingo (about a dog. God), which was in NO WAY better than the customary Man From Snow River show. Although, it did have stampeding horses, so that was pretty cool. What's his name? That singing bloke...Oh, John Williamson (wrote/sang True Blue) sang True Blue, Waltzing Matilda and A Home Among The Gumtrees, which I thoroughly enjoyed...Especially the last two - very Aussie. Especially Waltzing Matilda, which people have wanted to become our national anthem. I believe that's inappropriate, but it's a fantastic song in itself...

For those who don't know, Waltzing Matilda about a swaggie (swagman/traveller/hobo) who steals a jumbuck (sheep, no one calls them jumbucks) and is chased by troopers who are enquiring as to who's sheep he's got in his tucker bag. Instead of turning himself in or giving the sheep back, the swagman does the Aussie thing and defies authority...But jumping into a billabong (large body of water like a lake/lagoon) and drowing himself.

I don't know why people wanted it to be our anthem, lol, but it's a great song, as I said.

I have eaten way too much. Way, far, way too much. I feel ill. But I shall soldier on because, if nothing else, Easter is about gluttony!!! And Zombie Jesus' birthday. And now I'm going to hell...I'm awaiting a lightning bolt.

  

Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong 
Under the shade of a Coolabah tree 
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled 
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda 
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me? 
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled 
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Down come a jumbuck to drink at the water hole 
Up jumped a swagman and grabbed him in glee 
And he sang as he stowed him away in his tucker bag 
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me'".

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda 
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me? 
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled 
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Up rode the Squatter a riding his thoroughbred 
Up rode the Trooper - one, two, three 
"Where's that jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?", 
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me".

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda 
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me? 
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled 
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

But the swagman he up and jumped in the water hole 
Drowning himself by the Coolabah tree, 
And his ghost may be heard as it sings in the Billabong, 
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda 
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me? 
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled 

"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"     

 



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