Day 21 - The cream, the bone, the white, the off-white, the ivory or the beige.

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Junee to Cootamundra 68km

To all of those following this blog from countries outside of the British Commonwealth, apologies in advance.  Many Cricket references will be made.  But before we rest here in the birth place of the late, great Sir Donald Bradman.  We had to get here first.  And the weather, she wasn't with us.  

When, I ask you people, does the wind ever come from the East?  Seriously, the last time we had weather from the East in South Australia, the storms took out the entire state's electricity grid, and everyone had an unscheduled camping holiday at home.  While they tried to figure out how to fix it, it took three days to get the lights back on and bloody Scomo blamed renewable energy.

So, as I was saying, wind from the east, it's just not cricket.  However, since we were heading east, of course that's where the wind came from.  The best I can say is at least it keeps the flies off.  Also, we added an extra 20km to the journey in an effort to stay off the Olympic Hwy.  This did bring us through some lovely country, and the first 35kms, done before it got hot, were lovely.  There was nobody out there but us and the birds.  We even did a stretch along the 'old Sydney road'.




After an excellent roadside lunch, the hills and the heat started to take their toll and the grumpy index started to rise.  I definitely heard Kerstin counting to ten after I criticised her choice of drinking stop.  She does it in German, with a big sigh at the end.  It was all happening, the tension, the drama, the buzz, the atmosphere.  It was all very dramatic.  Luckily a distraction arrived, in the form of an equally dramatic crop duster.  He flew over us multiple times, getting really low and tilting the plane to wave.



We finally pushed into Cootamundra, Kerstin which was excited to discover is the birthplace of Sir Donald Bradman.  Australian cricket legend.  So despite sore knees and tired bodies we took 'the Captains Walk' in Jubilee Park.  Which has a bronze bust of every (male) Australian Cricket Captain.  No matter that Australia has had an even more successful women's national team since 1935.  In 2021 the Australian Women's Cricket team, set a world record, winning 22 ODI in a row, beating Ricky Ponting's record.  Where are their bronzes?  

"Cricket a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity."  Benjamin Mancroft.



Comments

  1. FrancieFebruary 28, 2022 at 4:17 PM

    Be careful with the East weather which is ravaging Lismore and the coast. Though you are a fair way from there. Love the commentary - grumpiness index 'n all!
    We are out to tea tonight to farewell Elaine who we will drop off tomorrow to head for the city for her PCR test. That's the first leg now as part of her return flight to Dublin on Thursday. All being well.
    Josey got another cat from the Animal Aid Shelter - a black and white cutie called River. Harry was chuffed to say "we rescued the cat"

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  2. BrendaMarch 2, 2022 at 12:44 PM

    "Howat" here's to women's cricket. Our Tara played in an inaugural representative interleague game. It was played in great spirit and came down to the wire with Tara taking two wickets, lining up for a hat trick.... . This stopped their run making and they won by 8 runs.

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