Thursday dawned to what was undoubtedly the wettest, bleakest and most miserable weather we’d had for the week, and I counted my lucky stars as I contemplated the luxuries of reverse cycle air-conditioning.
Similar considerations must have been going on elsewhere, since I gather there was a ring around and Thursday’s Volunteer roster was abandoned. Not that anyone would have blamed them, except for one small technical detail.
Thursday was the Mackay Show holiday and, apparently, there were plenty of people who decided that a couple of hours in a warm vehicle was preferable to a day traipsing around a country show, even if it was going to necessitate a walk around Bowen in less-than-ideal conditions....
Many of us are familiar with the workings of Murphy’s Law...
If something can go wrong, it will. And when it does, it will go wrong at the worst possible moment...
Sums it up rather well doesn’t it? The one day that the Volunteer program is scrapped turns out to be one of the busiest for the whole six weeks.
One volunteer, however, decided that regardless of the conditions she was going to turn up....
She deserves a medal as big as a frying pan....
A short visit to the area on Friday provided further blog feedback, and an offer of further photographs to add to the gallery. They arrived on a USB chip on Saturday morning. as is usual with these things there was one minor technical detail.
There are more than five hundred of them, including shots of Wednesday night’s fireworks display. They form a substantial chunk of the various photo galleries hereabouts.....