19 November 2024 Brisbane: The Lord Mayor's Concert with the Inadequate Band

 

The Tuesday free concerts at the City Hall are in full swing.  We missed last week as we had been flying all night long.  This concert was well attended and was rather fun.  The Inadequate Band was everything but inadequate.  A trio playing accordion, acoustic guitar and mandolin or banjo, they played original songs as well as some country, some bluegrass and a Crowded House tune to top it all off.  Had they any CD's to sell, we would probably have one now. They are due to record their first album in a month or so.  We had sushi afterwards and then took the bus home in the rain. We took the 199 which let us off by Coles so we were able to stop in at a tiny tea store.  We talked about tea with Hanna and got to pet the store dog, Lupin.  Lots of fun!  We then headed back at the house for some more fun.  We cooked up the kangaroo meat in a stuffed peppers dish.

The tree is going up

We have made it to the City Hall

The dome is all lit up

We are early but the place is set up for a big crowd

The band was called the Inadequate Band

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We thought they were more than Adequate, they were great

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Accordion, guitar and either the mandolin or the banjo.  An odd mix but it worked just fine

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They brought out the MC who was also a friend to sing "Tennessee Girl"

The USS Blackfin was a submarine

An odd kind of plaque is this to hang up in City Hall.  It is from the Vendetta Veterans Association and is from veterans that served on the HMAS Vendetta

We loved this tea shop, this is Hanna that she, her sister and her Mom run

Lupin the dog

Mr. Curry is on fire!

   It has been 2 years and 167 days since we began our Migration

18 November 2024 Brisbane: New Farm Walkabout

 

We walked along the river and saw several pairs of joggers socializing more than exercising.  Both activities are healthy so there was no judgement from us.  We got to the New Farm park where there was a bring your baby picnic. The river water was splashing up on the sidewalk here even though it was not high tide.  The Power House is a repurposed building that has meeting spaces and a few theaters as well.  It is ringed by street art and some large art installations.  We went inside to check the schedule of events and to serendipitously soak up some AC.  We kept walking through the formerly lush rose gardens and  had to wonder what happened to them.  Many beds were almost bare with only a few spindly rose bushes in them.  Further afield we made it to the pharmacy to fill the prescriptions we received last week.  We stopped into a butchers shop because they advertised bush meat.  Some kangaroo mince looked good so we bought it.  They did not have any camel.  I asked because Australia has more camels that the mid-East does and they are the largest exporter of camel meat in the world.  the butcher said it was easier to export meat from Australia than it is to sell it internally.  So my long neglected carnivore list must wait for camel to be available somewhere else.

A very early wake up this morning as they started to remove the scaffolding next door at 7 AM

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So much construction

We reviewed the river ferries routes

Not bad for fifty cents a ride

More construction across the river

The tide seemed to be out but water still splashed up on the walkway

Nice riverside mansion

A welcome swallow

Zipping by our heads

Made it to the Power House Area

Great sign

Cool street art

It is a large re-purposed building with theaters and other spaces inside

Comedy show

Large fish sculpture

Swimming into the wall

Another one coming out of the wall on the side of the building

A truck made out of stone

A mural on the wall

Inclusive cow

At first this looked like an add for an art show but there was no show inside

I noticed this Ibis from a distance.  It was different from the others and sure enough ti was a new lifbird, Australian Straw Ibis

The rose garden have fewer roses than two years ago

Still some nice bllooms

The city off in the distance

Another brush turkey

Such beautiful birds

Thick Knees and all

Who lives in these boxes?

This thick knee looked like a sculpture

The beaks on the magpies are very pretty

A large tent with shopping carts lined up outside.  We actually saw a trash bin there the day earlier

A spectacular hibiscus

A very deep red in the center

We had never seen this monkey tail cactus in bloom before

At first we thought a mouse was visiting and eating our peach

So we bought a mouse trap

Upon further reflection we decided to get a bigger weapon to deal with the mouse.  It turned out the gouge in the fruit was from removing the sticker and not an actual mouse bite

Our explorations

   It has been 2 years and 166 days since we began our Migration