At the end of the Easter Holidays, a few days before the kids started school, we went to Ironfest with our friends Danielle and Joe and their 12-year old son Damien. Ian and Kate and their kids Bella, Ingrid and Davey were there too.
Ironfest is an annual festival in Lithgow, an old mining town not far west of the mountains. The festival is an odd mix of jousting, metal sculpture, smithying demonstrations and overpriced fast food, as well as folk music, mock hangings and reenactments of Napoleonic battles.
It was a great day out apart from the icy wind, which was just about as cold as anything that we ever felt in Ye Olde Country of Ye Drizzle and Ye Gloom.
Highlight for Zac was seeing The Spooky Men's Chorale, playing with singer-songwriter Fred Smith. We'd never heard of The Spooky Men's Chorale, but it turned out they were a local Lawson ensemble, and only a week or two into school, Zac had made friends with Hamish, whose father Dave is an actual Spooky Man. The Spooky Men will be touring England in the summer of 2009. All three hundred of them.
Joe took some great photos of Ironfest.
Ant & Zac.
I'm liking the porcupine : )
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