Where Gillian amuses tourists
I’ve been playing with cameras and have more food history photos. I have such a backlog of pretty pictures and just haven’t had time to upload them yet for your delectation. So you have joy in store.
The latest photos are more early Sydney colonial history.
Some friends met up for lunch today in the Sydney Botanic Gardens. Two of the friends are the wonderful ones I’m staying with, so I got to tag along. We had a fabulous time and friends from at least four cities caught up with each other and shared gourmet food, which really isn’t relevant to anyone except Laura who reads this blog. Hi, Laura – it was great seeing you!
Anyhow, on the way to the rose garden (where we met up) there was food history. I’m afraid I amused two Danish tourists. My friend pointed and said ‘Food history.’ ‘Food history!â€? said I and tried to find my camera. ‘Just let me find my camera,’ I pleaded. ‘My student need to see this, so very much!’ The young men thought I was being touristy and offered to take photos for me. I explained I wanted the food and nothing but the food. My camera magically unlost itself and I got my pictures.
The Botanic Gardens has a little horticultural patch showing some of the fruit and vegtables that were grown around there during those colonial days. Corn and bananas and fruit bats. OK, I guess the colonists didn’t eat the fruit bats, but they looked like very odd fruit, hanging upside down from every tree in sight and gossiping madly.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Good to see you, too! Margaret presents her compliments, and says to tell you her writing is going very well, thanks. And I bet if you ask the other science-fiction types, they’ll tell you that gourmet food is very relevant indeed!