The Russells come to town

Puppy, Kay and the family dropped in for ten days or so. It was very windy from the moment they arrived and stopped the moment they left. Must have brought it with them.

It was great to see them and better to see the Cats destroyed by the Pies while they were in town.

Johnny got Anna to give the old hairdo a bit of a touch up which was brave, but Kay was able to tidy up afterwards.

Bye to Patricia

Our dear neighbour (who became our good friend) Patricia has left Broome to work in Kalgoorlie. The three months she spent here went very fast and we had alot of fun together, with a great Hawaiian party to send her off.

Bloody hell!

Well. After destroying the Cats last week it seemed the premiership really was a cake walk.

We travelled 200km North of Broome to Cape Leveque for the long weekend with friends. Tracey and I thought that seeing one of has to loose we may as well be somewhere nice to help cope with it.

First she thought she had lost, then I thought I had lost, then she thought she had lost, then I thought I had lost, then we both thought we had lost.

Then we had to drive back to Broome together.

Now we have to do it all again. I think this time I'll just go next door to the RSL.

Carn the Pies!

(Thank you all for your cruel text messages!)

We are NOT keeping a lid on it...

Certainly not.

Look out!!!! Here come the magpies. First it's the hapless doggies....

Shinju Matsuri Float Parade

Well Sammy the Dragon was a big hit in the float parade on Saturday. Once again he barely put a foot wrong all day (except after he went to the Roebuck bay Hotel - but I'll get to that). Little Sammy the dragon did well in warm conditions and proved very popular with the crowds.

Sammy lead the parade until we reached the infamous Roey and he was lured into the beer garden with the promise of free beer. What with the warm conditions and the general excitement of the day Sammy probably overindulged as the parade passed by. As he weaved off down the street (Chinese dragons are supposed to weave) at the end of the parade a lady tapped me on the shoulder and asked if we meant to leave the big chinese flag that leads the parade in the beer garden. I thanked her for her concern and assured her that we were a well drilled unit and everything was going according to plan. After she left I ran back to get the flag from the Roey beer garden only to pass little Sammy and an assortment of kids running out of the beer garden after realising they had been left behind.

Luckily we didn't lose anyone and the day finished at the Male Oval where various acts performed on the big stage. The best one was the Pearl Bay Dancing Academy which starred none other than Anna Thorn.

(P.S: the surfboard in the picture belongs to me. I'll let you know when I can stand up on it - don't hold your breath).

Dragon Boats

Tracey and I paddled in the Dragon Boat races at Town Beach. Tracey was in the Broome boat people boat (Broome Primary School) and I was in the Hospital Heroes boat.

We had 3 races each and I'm sad to say that the boat people performed much better than the Heroes. The boat people (in white) finished in the top 8 out of 16 teams and I didn't bother checking where the heroes finished. Sufice to say that our sweep fell out of the boat in one race and without him you tend to just go around in circles. If the winner was the boat that paddled the furthest, then we definately would have won.

As usual the surf club won (I suppose that is a good sign for all those that go to the beach), and the kids won their tug of wars.

Shinju Matsuri Festival

Theopening ceremony of the Shinju Matsuri Festival went off like clockwork. Sammy the Dragon performed all manouvres without getting tied in a knot (which is better than we ever did in practice). The kids made lots of noise banging drums and other instruments and did well in the baby dragons. Sammy was woken to start the festival with fire crackers with Doug Fong (good name eh?) removing his blind fold. Sammy then did a bit of a show and headed off to Matso's brewery where he went into the bar and did a circuit, only smashing one glass - not a bad effort for a dragon with a big head and 16 pairs of legs. He drank about 16 beers before going off home to bed (most of the legs went back to Matso's though) while staircase to the moon happened.

Broome Primary School Sports Day

A few weeks ago we had our school sports carnival.

We are in different factions and we compete against each other in tunnel ball, races, sack races egg and spoon races, leader ball, flag races and lots more.

I came 2nd in 75m sprint and 3rd in the relay.

Our team (Riddell) won the shield for the year.

Our factions are named after beaches.

The end of the road for the Bulls

After a great season Broome Bulls FC season have come to an

end. The final game was against the undefeated Cable Beach.

The Boys put up a good fight but Beaches got 6 goals to none in the first term.We outscored them 5 goals to 2 for the rest of the game.

For the best fairest Porkie[Jordan Bacon] came runner up and Barks won[Sam Barklow]

I would also like to thank Glesso for coaching us for the season.

Willie Creek excursion

Rex and Carol have been visiting for three weeks, so we treked up to visit the Willie Creek pearl farm. It was very interesting. Darcy got to fish a big pearl out of an oyster and Ruby swanned around the showroom with a $70,000 string of pearls on (I wasn't entirely happy with the clasp, so decided not to buy it).