Tamworth, Saturday 6 July

I made a cake in my Sunbeam Nuvi Convection Oven yesterday morning. One of Margie's (my sister) recipes - Lemon and Yoghurt Cake - and I used one of Mike's lemons Bruce picked from his tree when we were there a week ago. It was a yummy cake and good to know the oven worked well. I should have taken a picture of it. I'll do that for the next thing I make, which will probably be muffins.

We went into town to do some grocery shopping after lunch and it was strange to see the main street with cars. When we have come for the Country Music Festival in the January, the main street is blocked off and it is for pedestrians. There are some shops closed down and some new ones opened since the last time we were here in 2012.

Luke O'Shea was on at the Services Club last night, a free concert, so we had dinner there to make sure we got a seat. We don't go to clubs very often so it was interesting to see all the different ways they have to take your money from you! But fun ways. Meat raffles, some other raffle that we didn't have tickets in (and didn't understand) and then a raffle to win Keno entries. One of the ladies at our table won that one. It was quite a good lead up to the concert.

Luke O'Shea won a Golden Guitar for his song, The Drover's Wife. I bought his CD in January 2012 when we were here and really like his songs, which he writes himself. It was the first time we had seen him live and it was a great show. He sang for 3 hours with only one break of 30 minutes. We didn't get back to the van till about midnight.

There is a guy in a van just down from us, travelling by himself. His van is his home and he wrote his car off coming into town about a week ago. He asked Bruce yesterday if he would cut his hair - give him a number 2 blade all over - so Bruce is down there now giving him a clip.

We are off to a lunchtime concert at The Longyard, a well know pub in Tamworth. Bob Corbett is playing and he won the Starmaker competition in 2012. This has been won by Lee Kernigan and Keith Urban in years gone by. Don't know his music so we'll see how it goes.

Just went to see how Bruce was going, cutting Les' hair and he has finished. He hasn't done a bad job so he can add that to his repertoire.