The Goldmine.
  • Spy vs Spy
    • At Fox River
    • Patty and the Tet Offensive
    • Pale and Interesting >
      • More pale and interesting
      • Older, still pale, possibly only interesting to a couple of people
    • The Heckler and Koch Affair
    • Spy vs Spy
  • Peeling the Onion
  • Old unhappy far-off things
    • Wipers and the Ypres League
    • Fanny and Cobber.
    • In Memoriam
  • Slightly Saltirical
    • A Dexter Hand
    • The Boar-Worshippers
  • Taken by the Hand
    • Geranium Days
    • The Lockhart Papers
    • A Martial Aspect
    • O Perfect Love >
      • Sonnets Unplugged
      • Stout Cortez
    • Tea and an Ascot
  • Childe Harold
    • Monikers >
      • The Sandman and Sleipnir
    • Bos Indicus
    • Three things in a field >
      • Dance With A Bull
  • Eureka (Stockade)
    • Two for Joy
    • At the Bottom of the Garden >
      • Coins of the Realm
  • Superstitious Nonsense
    • Leaves of Tea
  • The Best of Times
    • The Space Race >
      • C.P.Snow
  • Sorry luv, I missed that.
  • Valley Girls
    • Britten, B et al >
      • Gammon and Spinach
      • The Blue Flowers >
        • The Beautiful People
        • The girls from 9DY Rangi Ruru >
          • The Fires of Hell and other Works of Art
        • The Cat's Paw and other Feline Fables
        • Flowers in Bloom
      • The Moon and Daisies
      • Snowmaiden Revelry
  • Sitting on Custard
  • The Long White Grass
    • Somewhere...
  • I have pictures
  • The Queen's Cake
  • A Portrait by Hoppner
  • The Iron Fist.
    • Slow twitching gams.
  • Whips and Whatnot
  • Showering with Friends

Show time

Picture
At Glen Oak after the Lockhart Show (1980 possibly).
Here we see a modest repast being taken after another (presumably successful) day at the Lockhart Show, which has always been very much a family do. I am only sorry that I don't have a photograph of one of my great aunt Daisy's homemade-butter sculptures. (Is that clear? Both the butter and the sculptures were homemade). They were always the piece de resistance of the show, topping such treats as the merry-go-round, the camel rides, the show bags and the sweet peas in the floral section. In 1981 ( and I think I have this right) the sculpture was of the royal wedding carriage and horses. It was truly a marvel. Some wag did suggest that it would have been easier to sculpt Ho Chi Minh in his coffin.
The Lockhart Show was very much an Alexander affair. They were variously the Show President, the committee, the judges and the competitors, as well as enthusiastic participants at all the sideshows. They also had a wonderful picnic lunch with lashings of everything including my favourite indigestible hard-boiled eggs. The usually chilly September wind did little to detract from the delights. I'm sorry to report that I haven't been to the show for over 30 years.
On the other side of the clan I find that my great-grandfather William Barwick (the one who met Ned Kelly) was, along with one John Heckendorf, an original office bearer of the inaugural Lockhart Show. It's what you do in the bush.
(Lockhart, 'the Verandah town', is the place of my birth one autumn day sometime in the 20th Century.)

The Lockhart Papers

These are something entirely different. Something to do with Scotland. I'm looking in to it.  
 ( http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Lockhart_papers.html?id=OFsJAAAAIAAJ )