What a glorious day Saturday was for the 2nd Inglewood Alive Festival. Justin & I arrived around 10.30am and couldn't even get a car spot at the front of our place so had to drive around the back and parked in the back garden.
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| no available parking outside our place |
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| Inglewood Alive program |
There were events on at the Town Hall :- a Magic show and a photography exhibition. There were also pony rides outside the Town Hall as well as face painting and horse & cart rides.
Further along there were the now familiar mystery steam engines
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| outside the steam engine display |
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| steam engine light |
On to the main street, and there were various stalls and the other side of Verdon Street was blocked off with a brass band, vintage motor bikes, CFA open house and the very popular wood chop
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| Blocked off Verdon Street with horse and cart in the background |
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| vintage motor bikes |
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| Inglewood Fire station (photo from the internet) |
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| brass band |
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| in preparation for the wood chop |
At the Melbourne end of Brooke Street there were vintage cars and a rock and roll dancing display
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| vintage cars |
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| rock and roll dancing |
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| Inglewood fire station |
But my favourite has got to be the wood chop. I guess I first saw it at the Royal Melbourne Show 4 or 5 years ago and was immediately taken. Now I've seen it at the Rheola Show a couple of times and also at the Blue Eucy Festival. Maybe this now qualifies me as a wood chop groupie although I don't play favorites with the actual wood choppers.
The had different sorts of events - the classic 3 man time trial with handicaps. Which the same bloke seemed to keep winning even though they lengthened his handicap. It was obviously very strenuous, also as although it only took a few minutes they were certainly puffing at the end of it.
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| wood chop #1 |
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| wood chop #2 |
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| wood chop #3 |
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| wood chop #4 |
There was a new type of chop (for me) where they had to scale the pole with a couple of planks and then chop the top off. He accomplished this by cutting in a small notch about 1m off the ground and then putting one of the planks in it as a platform, climbing up onto it and hauling the other one up after him. He then cut another notch in the pole a bit higher up and so he climbed...
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| notch for the 1st level |
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| on the 1st level and preparing the 2nd level |
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| on the 2nd level now |
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| on the top level and looking a little precarious #1 |
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| on the top level and looking a little precarious #2 |
The choppers also had an 11 year old son/nephew with them (they're all related). He did a chop by himself but under his Dad's supervision. It's amazing how these guys all just wear Dunlop volley shoes and their axes are incredibly sharp. No accidents though.
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| 11 year old chopping #1 |
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| 11 year old chopping #2 |
To mix things up a bit they also did a chain saw carving. Turned out to be a little chair
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| chain saw carving |
And the last event was the 11 year old in a time trial against his uncle. The Uncle had a huge handicap of 50 (seconds?) further lengthened by the commentator initially counting rather slowly and then stopping the count at the end and just chatting a bit. Suffice to say the 11 year old won.
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| 11 year old vs his uncle |
We wandered around in the morning went home for some lunch and I went back primarily for the wood chop and also to have another chat with Denise and Steven.
Did a bit of watering in the late afternoon as it was quite warm had a quick dinner and then off to Kingower for a Fire talk followed by the film Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
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| one of the brochures we received |
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| Fried Green Tomatoes poster (from the Internet) |
The Fire talk was very interesting, and reminds you how important it is to have a proper plan in place in case there is a Code Red day, and the decision has to be made whether to stay or leave.
On Sunday, the overalls were donned again, Justin gave the upstairs red room window frame another coat of paint
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| caught in the act |
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| from the outside looking in |
And I pulled out dead pea plants and calendula, and fed them into the mulcher - killing 2 birds with one stone.
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| a small pile of mulch that I created |
But I presumably wasn't using it correctly, as it kept blocking up, so I had to open it, clear it and start again, made it slow and dusty work!
I was also pleased to see that some tiny lemons had formed on the lemon tree that Cheryl had given me from her garden in Glen Iris. Maybe just maybe they'll mature to ripeness
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| some hopeful lemons |
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