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On Saturday we ventured to the Gawler Show. We loaded Maesie and Elsie into our big pram/bike carriage and walked round to the show. It was much as I remembered it. A few rides, a few showbags, chickens, sheep, cattle, horses, restored machinery chugging away, the rec centre displaying handicrafts. Ferrets. Crazies.

We all enjoyed looking at the ducks, chickens, roosters etc. There were some very big birds in there and some weird looking ones too. We checked out the champion birds - they looked pretty good to me. Fine specimens.

I require 'Hot American donuts... making, baking all the while' as part of my show experience so I lined up to get a couple of hot beverages and 4 donuts. Many minutes later I discovered that the 'Zoom' brand of the outlet was a misnomer and they were in fact less than zoomy and would have been better with 'We take our sweet arse time' plastered on their van. That's probably too long though and not very catchy.

Once we had aged about a year and had finally received our beverages and donuts, we headed over to check out what was happening in the 'arena'. Horses jumping over stuff. Maesie was fairly impressed but I'm not overly keen about horses. We enjoyed our donuts, Elsie wiped her hands a million times with a wet-one and then we moved on.

The ferris wheel beckoned and Dave and Maesie enjoyed the longest ride in history as the operator/carnie tuned out and lost track of who needed to get off. I very nearly thought of wandering over, tapping him on the shoulder and asking him to let them off. It wasn't necessary though. They were released and we went back to the other side of the show to get a showbag.

About three hours later we left and walked home again. Overall it wasn't a bad Gawler Show experience. The girls enjoyed themselves and we had a good afternoon out together.

We snapped some pictures of the carnie caravans out the back. What a weird life - driving around the country with a ride or sideshow on a truck and your caravan home hooked onto that. It's definitely not high on my list of things to try.

This photo is for anyone who knows Andy. This carnie's van sticks out over the drainage ditch. The back legs of the caravan are resting on milk crates, you can just see the red crates!