~Melodrama at Mogo~

I'm currently in a Melodrama ... a Melodrama exaggerates the plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions......typically there is a Hero......Heroine.....and a Villain

This is currently playing at The Gold Rush Colony at Mogo to a sell out house

It's title is 'The Wake of Joseph Flanagan' and done in good ol' Irish style

along with lots of Singalongs!!!

Written by Jopeph Quigley and directed by Barb Gellatly

And I am having soooooo much fun as a Waitress......Singalongs with the Audience  Mourners and a little fun duet with Maddie and I singing 'Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow'

Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow Wow" is a song written in 1892 by prolific English songwriter 

Joseph Tabrar.  It was written for, and first performed in 1892 by, Vesta Victoria at the South London Palace, holding a kitten.

 In 1895 Toulouse-Lautrec painted May Belfort singing it. 

Some of the costumes of the Bushrangers above

Barb brought in some pics of dress at the time

The setting.......Diggers Rest Tavern at the Gold Rush Colony

Chris aka Bushranger singing "The Gypsy Rover'

Florence aka Flo played by Robbie

Me and Maddie rehearsing Bow Wow

We actually pretend to hold a kitten and pat it whilst singing

We play nervous, twitty, shy girls running up to the stage and only do the first verse speaking style and then lead the Audience Mourners into the main chorus

F U N   F U N   F U N

'The stage area known as 'The Snug'

And I couldn't resist a pic by the fire

Dressed all ready to serve......in green of course!!!

Colin aka Gular......

All the towns mentioned in the Melodrama are real places on the South Coast

Final scene of main cast at the end of the Melodrama

Jeremy aka Captain Foxlow (Villain.....hissssss)

and Steph aka Mrs Malone

Greg aka Smithy (hero!!!)

Brian (Cowboy) aka Dan Murphy......me and fellow Waitress Monica

All set in the Theme Park of The Gold Rush Colony which has buildings portraying life in Australia in the Gold Rush Days

Even the Chinese were involved

A Church also

And The Tavern just before the first show

I'm having an absolute ball doing this and 3 years ago would never dreamt of having so much fun doing something I had not done before!!!

~Dinner at Nundle......GDITC 2013~

On the way to dinner at Nundle we passed this cabin with the 'Girlfriends' (as JoJo calls the Nundle girls now) sitting outside we stopped to check out the quilts hanging over railing

They were all to be donated to a Cancer group...how lovely is that, all with hearts on them too!!!

One of the roads in Nundle......what a beautiful spot this was.......we just loved it!!!

On the Church itself was this 1882 sign...

Rustic looking bench on the way to dinner

I really love old furniture......have a look at the old table in the foreground especially it's top
looks like the legs might be different to the table top

The venue for our meal 'Mount Misery Gold Mine Cafe'
The cafe is located in the restored Coffin Makers Cottage built by George Davidson in the 1870’s and is featured on the cover of Slim Dusty’s Album Dinki-di-Aussie.

Most Rustic stuff on the inside

Our table with Dawnie, Deb, Susan

Looking outside from behind Deb

Above 2 shots......out the back and lots of tin

And finally the meals

Award winning Smoked Trout from the Arc-en-Ciel Trout Farm

and a Thai Beef Salad

Both very delicious.......but I fell in love with the atmosphere this place just oozed!!!

Dinner on Saturday evening was at the Peel Inn with the Hotel being 146 years old and still going strong!!!

~2012...the ones that got away~

For the start of 2013 I thought I would do a post on pics that just didn't 

make it to a post......but never say never, some of them still may!!!

We celebrated New Year's Day by having fish 'chips at the beach

The little shoes belong to my little Grand-daughter...

We took a trip up to visit my Mum...

'The Vale of Moura'

In February a local boat "The Vale of Moura' sunk in the Clyde River...

For a little history on this boat have a look here

In March we paid a visit to our dear Friends Geo and Lloyd and I fell in love with this doll

 

and blow-me-down Geo offered her to me!!!!!!

I have called her 'Gina' and here she is in her new home...

Thank you so very, very much Geo.......this is sooooo very generous of you!!!!!!!

I went to the 'Southeast Harvest Festival' and met Julie Goodwin, Australia's first Masterchef winner

and also met Costa from ABC TV

In April JoJo and I went to see a Wiggles concert

Lucky enough to meet Yellow Wiggle Greg Page

and Blue Wiggle Anthony Field

The 'Vale of Moura' was refloated

moved to the Marina

she sunk again...

and then chopped up......deemed beyond recovery

In May we headed off to some of Australia's High Country, the Snowy Mountains

Here a beautiful sunset

We left as snow began to fall

Came back and built a snowman

Iced over wire fence.

In June we headed off to the Good Food and Wine Show in Sydney

Here I am at the stall of  Maggi Beer......one of Australia's most loved Cooks

We paid a visit to The Queen Victoria Building and saw these magnificent tiles

In July Mr Armchair and I had a night out (with Respite Care for JoJo) and had some Mussels...

My DGD

 JoJo discovered a walking track with Danelle in August

In September we went on a cruise on the Merinda

They had an Assistant called JoJo who had 2 badges and one was given to our JoJo

The Captain...Matt even let JoJo steer the boat

The cruise is so peaceful you'd think you were miles from anywhere

In October we paid a visit to our Daughter and caught up with Lidija...
here is Lidija with me

In November we celebrated our Wedding Anniversary and bought ourselves this lantern...

and Mr Armchair came home with these pretty roses

On our Anniversary evening at Mogo Village celebrating a wrap up party for Pirates of Penzance

In December The Wiggles held a final performance and of course we had to go

Here JoJo laid out her Wiggles t-shirt the night before

and the concert in action...

Looking back what an action packed year......no wonder it went so fast!!!

I've got JoJo home with me for a few weeks and she is keeping me busy...

I've been doing blog hops to see what everyone is up to but haven't been able to comment everywhere

A big thank you to everyone who calls by......leaves a few words

I appreciate you taking the time to do this

Happy New Year......Peace, Love and Contentment for 2013 ~Dzintra~