This truly is the lucky country, we have started winning meat now! Club Lemon Tree, opposite our house, holds a free raffle for members every Friday so we trot over, collect our free tickets and settle down with a beer to see if we win anything. Meat raffles are common in Australia, not like in the UK where they only happen in Shameless or Yiewsley, they are everywhere. So we won some this week then scuttled off home quickly as Norm Bakker the Elvis impersonator was warming up to begin his set. Norm performs there quite often, I think they phone him whenever they have a gap in the schedule, some of the bands are quite good but Norm is rather more of an acquired taste.
The house renovations have hit a crucial point, the bath is out and we went down to Sydney to buy the new kitchen units on Thursday, IKEA again but this time we found one with a decent car park and didn't take the caravan, so not nearly as exciting as our last visit. We are trying to get these big, messy jobs done before all our goods and chattels arrive from the UK, having lived with very little for nearly five months, I can't think why we need all the stuff that is coming. We will have it delivered here then plan to build a big shed in the garden of our other house to store it all in while we travel about, why we didn't just sell most of it before we left I don't know.
The New South Wales State Elections are happening this week (more about that soon, the voting system is so complicated here it needs a separate blog post) and the candidate posters were up everywhere as we drove through the Sydney suburbs, I can't help thinking this guy might have considered a name change to help his chances of getting votes.