Garden Festival

Eric joined the walkers for a lap of McRitchie Reservoir on Monday, quite a stretch for him as he hasn't walked a lot lately while he has been throwing off a cold. And he is missing his buddy who is a bit lame at the moment. Lucky I am not a horse, you know what they say. Some nice wildlife shots of crimson flowerpecker, high ropes monkeys and not sure which banded snake that is but very pretty from a safe distance. They were lucky to escape the rain as it has been consistent lately. Didn't worry me in the pool.

Robert, Steve and Neil have all asked Eric at different times to take them to Colbar in Wessex Estate so on Tuesday they arranged to go. We woke to inclement skies and it was actually pouring when he left on his 'boys only' outing but fortunately by the time they all assembled at One North the worst was over and they had a cool stroll through the black and white homes and lunch at Colbar. There he had sausages and mash washed down with Tommy Taylor, a Yorkshire beer and a favourite of Nell's dad followed by a Hobgoblin, another English beer from the big selection.

We caught the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow last week. It was thankfully held on a Tuesday night in a small theatre tucked away in Robertson Walk so we had dinner first at Wine Connection with our buddies who are joining us in Kuching. This year the line-up included Phil Wang (UK), Ivan Aristeguieta, Bob Franklin, Sam Taunton and Singapore’s Sharul Channa as the host. Their backgrounds stretched through Chinese, Venezualan, Indian and Australian so their material had some interesting insights. Hearing ACDC's 'Back in Black' sung to a salsa beat closed the show. My favourite was probably the laconic presentation by Bob Franklin but they all had their moments in the sun and had us laughing out loud. On the way home we were mesmerized by the lights reflecting in the river so i took a snap. This is the result in B&W thanks to Google's editors.

This year's Garden Festival is on again at Garden's By The Bay so we went along on Thursday morning. We were very impressed by the magnitude of it, with something for everyone; terrariums, community garden projects, espaliered fruit trees, indoor gardens, children's gardens, fantasy gardens, landscape design and of course the floral displays. We walked much further than I had set out to do but it was well worth it. All of this was set up right beside the MRT access, adjacent to the GBTB zone. Gee they do that sort of thing well here, access for everyone. 

On Friday we went to Mustafas then Eric walked home while I took the MRT. We cleaned the house and got started organizing for the weekend away in Kuching.