THIS is a very Bathurst story.
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One of Parade’s mates, who grows a few vegetables on a little plot near the Vale Creek at Gormans Hill, swears that he lost some pumpkins last week because of frost.
Yes, frost. In the second-last week of February. Just days after the end of the heatwave that had gripped the Central Tablelands for weeks.
Parade expressed some scepticism about this story and his mate said every word was true.
“They were black,” he said of the pumpkins. “It was a cold morning anyway, but the pumpkins were right down there near the creek, so it would have been worse. The frost must have crept up and got them.”
It’s a strange place, Bathurst, no matter which way you look at it. Queensland is beautiful one day, perfect the next. Bathurst is 35 degrees one day, a pumpkin-killer the next.
It’s a matter of taste in the yard
SPOOKED by the great pumpkin massacre, Parade has started pulling out the last remaining vegetables in his little backyard patch before the cold weather can get them.
And Parade is sure he’s said it before, but he’ll say it again: there is no comparison between a home-grown vegetable and a supermarket-bought vegetable.
In some cases, it’s not that the taste is amplified in the backyard version, it’s that the backyard version tastes completely different (in a good way).
It’s just a shame that there’s only so much backyard available.
Plenty to see at Seniors’ Morning
AND now for something completely different.
Parade is told the Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association will hold a Seniors’ Information Morning at the association’s meeting at the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre on Thursday as part of Seniors’ Week activities.
A number of groups will be attending and there will be blood pressure and hearing tests available.
The CPSA meetings are held between 9.30am and 11am.