Fish 'n Chips?  From the past, a Cafe where real burgers are served. An array of pale yellow pre-cooked things in batter fill the display case waiting to be fried in deep boiling oil. Plastic strips hang across the doorway.

Look what happens when a car gets out of control. Joy ride? At West Wallsend.

 
Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore,
Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore.
Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip,
Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip.

Newcastle Kart Club. Youngsters start with assistance. Others don't need assistance.

One of the young women competitors. Lastly, taking a 'short cut' on the grass.

The Muster Point memorial to the steel industry is created in heavy duty metal work. 

Just now lemons are plentiful and for a change have inspired some cookery. There's old fashioned Lemon Delicious pudding as well as Lemon Meringue pie where the egg yolks go into the lemon filling, heated while stirring endlessly, and egg whites go into the meringue on top.

Fresh vegies are liked best but frozen are always kept on hand. In Woolworths supermarket a lot of frozen vegies are from China and these products meet with my resistance even while knowing this is unreasonable as it can probably be assumed that quality control is operative. As well, it is very strange to transport vegies all those miles.

Every cent counts in the mega food commodity industry. Basic foods are sidelined when there's bucks to be made in the processed, the ready made, the imported bargains. 

ABC Radio investigated local food and fruit picking and the role of illegal immigrants and backpackers who meet all sorts of problems working on Australian farms.

Steel making, food crops, you name it and it's gone off shore.

De-skilled but not defeated!

Metal barrier with cut-out letters instead of ubiquitous bright plastic. (See previous post for another example of this industrial strength feature at the Convict Lumberyard).
Why pick on that perverse feature and fail to show this coffee outlet to advantage? Had I known how this business dominates the search engine I could have given it more attention - maybe.
The location is close to Newcastle Beach where a take-away coffee is an idea. Shame the view is blocked by the fence! Perversity rules.

Convict prisoner symbol near the archaeological remains of convict era, Lumber Yard, Newcastle.
In 1819 the town gang of 256 convicts worked on construction projects around the settlement of Newcastle using the Lumber Yard as their base. Later the site housed convicts. Afterwards  it was leased to a store keeper but eventually burned down.

Coffee

Nobbys Beach Newcastle

Jessica, aged 16 years, returned to Sydney Harbour yesterday after sailing solo around the world.
People have mixed reactions to this feat. I can imagine what grumpy old men might say.

Site of Convict Lumber Yard in Newcastle from when Convicts were held in the colony   Lumberyard could be a  timber yard.

Men need a crane no matter what the job is these days. City Hall clock tower required attention.

Mothers Day, Sunday and all of us mothers were not doing sterotypical things in a romantic white room with a breakfast tray and a scented rose. No, we were free spirits taking in the morning sunshine at Newcastle Beach.

Christmas tree...empty crib....Newcastle Private Maternity Hospital and symbolism....I came across an old photo...tomorrow is Mothers Day.

Coffee at Newcastle Ocean Baths.

Hangul text tells a story with a cow theme.

New fence. It's all or nothing!
Regardlessly, images are posted here every few days while, in counterpoint, day to day life continues with highs and lows, joys and sorrows, birth and death, sickness and health and personal space is usually held private from public persona in the blog. Much more is probably revealed by others via social networking.

All day the marshalls waited for this moment. High drama on the rally track? Finally an excuse to start up the tow truck.

'Yellow' had been going like a blur before a mechanical failure meant it was towed back to the 'pits'.

All wheel drive supercharged are hard to beat. This could be one of them. West Lakes Auto Club, Awaba.

Rally event yesterday.

Classic figures, cast in iron, were truly a curiosity at a country pub (pictured yesterday on this site). The explanation was the hotel manager had a foundry in the city. The hotel held a collection of memorabilia. And served large tender steaks!
See statues from around the world - click the link. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
 

Royal Hotel in a country town. Built of sandstone c 1870. Quiet morning in Cassilis except for occasional barking dogs. Cassilis has a population around one hundred people.

 c smart 
From a Swatch Watch idea, a long story evolved about the car. Swatch Mercedes Art or Smart has variations and has been know to form leaning towers. But then, this was Canberra!

In 1938, glass tiles made an appearance here and a milk bottle took shape. Dairy Farmers Corner was a landmark in Hunter Street West, Newcastle.  A car dealership is found there now probably for Mazda and Peugeot. While Klosters BMW occupies the adjacent corner.

Why look at a ray of light backstage when the Volatinsky Trio, trained in Odessa, Minsk and Kiev, was on stage? The showwoman who played the cimbalom was a sparkling entertainer.

 

I bet one of those instruments is a.... hurdy-gurdy!
Mega-fauna roamed the festival
Instruments: Try before you buy!
Any excuse for a song by the red shirted songsters

At the National Folk fest in Canberra this troupe were preparing to dance. What national dance? Could be Macedonian.

Back with Thomas Hardy at the National Folk Fest in Canberra. Visitors from Auckland NZ were among the Morris Dancers.

Das Auto. Some distance is seen between two cars after a collision, in Canberra.

Still but not still in Canberra.where the water was very active. Then at 4 pm the magic ceased, the pump was turned off and the last drops were caught falling into Lake Burley Griffin.
All water - no ash or steam.