melbourne royal show

This morning I paid a brief visit to this year's Melbourne Royal Show (yes, this didn't properly hit me for a while, it's going to be hard for me to think of it as anything but the Royal Melbourne Show, but whatever). I did my own research via a wikipedia link to a short interview by Raf Epstein about the change, the explanation for which didn't quite make sense but it happened in 2022 and they're sticking with it because it gives them an 'opportunity to grow' lol). 

I went on my own, so, I could do what I wanted, and I did. I looked at quite a bit of craft. 

There is a bit of a general overall obsession with these kinds of cows, I can see it's a thing rn. 

So what you are about to see is one of the most truly amazing pictures you have ever seen, and it will haunt you for the rest of your life, so if you don't want to be haunted by a picture... oops too late

I would buy that if I could. I wonder if that is possible. 

And that's that. Will I go again next year? Not alone, I suspect, so possibly not. 

it was twenty years ago today

Not this picture. This was about a week ago. Ferdinand and Perry. 

I don't know why but I was moved for a second to examine my blog from twenty years ago, in the year I began it. I was writing a lot in that first year and I was really convinced I was very interesting and leading a fascinating life (so in that regard not much has changed). I was also writing a lot like everything I was into or had just read/watched/listened to was completely coherently obvious and natural, in a way that at the time probably made sense to me but now when I look at it, not remembering the ins and outs of various stupid films I borrowed from Video Ezy or whatever, or tv shows (I seemed to watch massive amounts of tv back then), I can't make head or tail of what I was talking about. Isn't that mad!

So I guess when I started my blog I had just turned 40, and all was possibility in a manner of speaking. I was surprised to see that we went to the Royal Show in 2005 only because I am pretty sure that I have been to the Show every year since I started going as an adult, which would mean I've been at least twenty times in twenty years (actually not, now I think of it, because firstly pandemic lockdown, also there was at least one time relatively recently when I was overseas and couldn't go). You have already seen the nice pictures of my visit to the Show yesterday morning. 

Also I note Donald Horne has now been dead for twenty years, a little more than. I still see that as a bit of a shame, but I don't suppose he'd be having much fun if he was alive.* Also that twenty years ago we saw Electrelane live, though I was a bit down on them for some reason, but I bet they were actually great. I would like to get (I suppose I mean, re-get) some of their records.* I wonder what happened to that band.*** 

* He'd be 104 

* Wow I just saw the prices on discogs and no, I wouldn't. 

* They went on hiatus a couple of years after they played in Australia - around 2007 - then threatened to return in the early 2020s then didn't. 

the show yesterday - ii

 

Maker's Pavilion. Or maybe just 'Makers', I don't know. Or Makers', look I really don't know.

at the show yesterday - i

Papillons

Lowchens

Papillons

So as mentioned I went to the Show yesterday with my mother - she was primarily interested in the papillons and we saw all the papillons in competition, going through their paces. They did well. 

Below = not papillons.