Once a year the residents of Perth go crazy for 'Showbags'. Like the lucky Dip bags they contain an assortment of some cheapo sweets, a crappy plastic toy that is guaranteed to break after five minutes inducing some high pitched shrieking from a small child and an oversized furry hat. There are thousands of different showbags to choose from and you see kids often carrying four or five at a time.
Apparently this is the highlight of the Perth Royal Show. It's an agricultural show (cue Daves excitement to go!!) mixed in with a fairground and informative stalls on how to breed chickens for eggs, running your own worm farm and mulching for beginners!
There I learnt:
- Chickens stink and the roosters will try and outcrow each other (men, huh)
- Alpacas are the cutest things as long as you don't annoy them enough to gob in your face.
- Sheeps wool is really soft (no, I was very surprised at this!!!) if you part its crusty stuff and cop a feel of that underneath.
- Goats are categorically not sheep (don't ask. The sign said sheep!!)
So we had a lovely day spending hours hunting down the dog show (for big wuss Dave) and avoiding going on the twisty vomit inducing rides (again big wuss Dave) so the only thing left to do after was to go to the pub, watch the sunset over the ocean and drink cold beers!
3 comments:
a truly fantastic romantic day then!! i will tell murrae and then next year dave can have a subsitute son!!!!
I knew that sheep were soft remember I originally was trading you for a lilac long curly sheepskin ? Did you see a lilac sheep there ? Love you miss you Sparkle x x x x x x x
Sparkle. We saw a pink sheep and a yellow one bt no lilac ones. But there were some curly haired ones that you liked.
Shaz. Not romantic. Murrae is welcome to dave and his sheeps!! No they were cute though!
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