Photo-a-Day 8th September - Saturday

[byslantedlight]

I got my energy back! I was able to go to the fair! Hooray! *g*

It started with a parade (these guys are from my nephew's primary school, although he was marching with his soccer team instead). They're all bees! How cute is that! *g*

Then there was fair food. Mini pancakes, with butter and lemon and maple syrup! Fairy floss was never blue in my day - but it seemed like the only fresh fairy floss around, so we tried it. It actually tasted of something (though not fairy floss like I remember) and it melted in your mouth, and it turned you entirely blue. Okay, it might just have felt like entirely, but I kept wanting to check my face for blue-ness for hours after. *g*

Traditional fair events - the woodchopping competition, and pole-vaulting!! The Australian champion wood chopper was there later in the day, and having given the others a 28 second lead, he still beat everyone!

We had a break for a few hours (well, I took mum out for a drive into the hills, cos it was a gorgeous day), and then we went for an Indian and came back in time to see the torchlight parade (the emergency services) and then the fireworks!



So all in all, it was rather a nice day to make up for Friday's rough one!

Comments

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

So glad you felt better and didn't have to miss all this! Looks like it was a really fun day!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was a fun day - I don't often get to go to the fair! *g*

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Great you were able to go and had so much fun!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay for getting my energy back and going to the fair! *g*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

That sounds like the most brilliant day! Just my idea of an outing :-))) Glad you were well enough in time to enjoy it!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was a very fun day indeed - and yeay for getting energy back in time! *g*

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[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hello - sorry to take forever to reply. As you can see I've been off travelling, and because it was to Australia to start with, family stuff sort of took over my life. I've just got to New Zealand now, and actually have some time to think - pretty much on the day that palelyloitering has just gone down.

Well, I knew it would happen one day, but actually I've not had web software since I had to change my laptop last time, and that was back in 2013 or so, so although I've used it to find info, I've not been able to update it anyway... I was thinking about moving it to lj as some kind of comm, so maybe this'll be a prompt. Thanks for hosting it for all those years!

Hope your world is going okay.

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Looks like an absolutely wonderful day! Is there any difference between fairy floss and cotton candy? If so, maybe that's what it tasted like, because I remember cotton candy coming in all sorts of colors.

And fireworks! What a great way to end the day.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

It looks like candy floss to me, but that was pink or white.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, fairy floss and candy floss are the same thing as far as I know. When I was little it was either pink or yellow when you got it at the "show" (fair) - definitely not gaudy blue! *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Fairy floss and cotton candy are the same thing, as far as I know. We always called it fairy floss when I was a kid, so... *g* It used to come in either pink or yellow, when we went to the local "shows" (fairs), and it tasted like candy - sweet and sugar-y, with a delicate flavour of some kind to it. You could taste the flavour in this blue stuff though - definitely something added!

And yeay fireworks, it was indeed an excellent end to the day! *g*

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Great pics - it looks like a wonderful day. Glad you were able to enjoy it.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was a lovely day, thanks. And thank goodness for getting my energy back! *g*

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Great pictures and I love the kids as bees. But when I look at the picture with the wood choppers standing on the wood runs a shiver down my spin. What when they miss and hit their leg instead. Scary.

Oh, and fireworks. I love fireworks but this year they had to cancel our fairy firework because it was to dry after the hot summer.

[cyanne]

The fair looks like it was lots of fun, thanks for sharing it. Glad you got to go. My sister and I are a lot more uncouth, in the US it's cotton candy but we just call it dye because it's pretty much just sugar and colored dye. We still eat it though.