Tamworth

Anita and I spent the morning in Tamworth while our friends minded Tilly and Blue. This is a busy town with many recently built houses. During Country Music Festivals there are large crowds along Peel St. Today it was busy but I could see all of the shops and historic buildings behind modern facades.

Our shows this week will be in the Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall which dates back to 1934. The 1900 Lands Office building across the road has lots of timber in its verandahs.

As we walked back to our car I spotted this mural on a new block of toilets in Bicentenial Park. I'm not sure a public toilet is the ideal location for a mural depicting these stars of country music! Apparently the project was only completed in April this year so most of these entertainers won't have seen the mural.

The Facebook page for the Quirindi Royal Theatre added this photo which I downloaded.

Two other Roadie friends arrived this afternoon. We all went to Carmen's Italian restaurant for dinner. The food was very good and the servings very generous. The set menu options started from $40 for three courses. I had the salmon followed by lemon curd selected from the $45 menu for two courses. Everyone enjoyed their meal. The bill was cleverly divided into 8 accounts for the 8 people at the table, and there was no issue of only one bill per table.

Back at camp Blue heard us return and was excitedly crying. We had left him in his crate but he had escaped and jumped down from the bed to the seat to the step onto the floor. Last night one zippered door was partly open and we thought we hadn't closed it properly. He was still inside the crate. This evening he had opened the zip to the flap that allowed him to jump onto the seat, whereas last night we now know he undid the zip, but chose the flap that was at the edge of the table and it was too high for him to jump. Houdini has learned the safe exit strategy! Tomorrow night I will put clips on all of the zips in the hope he remains confined to his crate.