Lamb on a spit

On the 11th of May we all celebrated a milestone on the project by going to a new hotel/resort outside of town for lamb on a spit.  This is a traditional spring.summer thing in these parts, last time we did it outdoors in a little farming village but this time the quality of the lamb was just as good.

I took this one because I have a strange fetish for Hi Panda t-shirts

The banquet room filling up ...

Then all piling back out into the coridoor when they wheel up the lamb

When seagulls attack !!  It's like that with anything on a spit ....

Gone.  

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Takin it to the streets

Going for an evening walk in town, up to the Little Sheep restaurant for a hot pot dinner. (10th May)

Everyone is out and about 

The street vendors large and small ;;;

The local Little Sheep franchise ...

I don't normally take pictures of food but 

a traditional Chinese hot pot meal is not something you see back home

and as it turned out this restaurant closed down shortly after, this may have been one of the last meals we had there ......

I love the VW taxi with the BMW sticker.  You see all type of Ling Longs and other locally made cars with the Fully Hektik Drift Set of stickers - HKS, Nismo, TRD, Brembo, etc all on the one car so this one is pretty tame by comparison.

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Springtime at the factory

Fields of daisies, and the sun is shining. A walk around the grounds of the factory Wednesday morning before work.  The temps are solidly in the positive each day now, birds chirping and the insects buzzing.

Some species survive the winter better than others I suppose

And back again

Om the road from Changchun airport to Liaoyuan.

Spring is here and the fields are plowed in every direction as far as the eye can see. Pretty soon all you will be able to see is corn.

...... 2, 4, 6, 8 .....

someones been busy 

a'plowin' and a'plowin'

That name again ?  Mr Plow 

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The Mighty Val

My brother Jason picked this up a few years ago in Queensland, the weekend of Alan Joyce's little hissy fit with Qantas, which was a story in itself as to how he got back home the next day. (I was staying in Beaudesert that week).  We went up to see it together and settled on a price with the owner, eventually she arrived in Sydney on a tilt tray.  The weekend after her first rego renewal in 20 years or so we took her out to celebrate a year of being back on the road. The old girl was running a lot better after replacing the vacuum hose between the (recently reconditioned) Holley single barrel and the distributor.  The sparks are still too weak and she struggles under load so a good look at the dizzy in the next job on the list.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you ......  The 1962 model S series Valiant by Chrysler !

His pride and joy, absolutely original and unrestored.

Although when time and money allows ..

She will eventually get the full treatment.

The 225 slant six in these is good for over 100 mph with a little work .....

Love the chromework.

La Perouse on a Sunday is a great place for car spotting, the next best thing we saw that day was this original XW GT.  I remember the first time I saw one of these as a boy in Cooma, the Super Roo logo blew me away.

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Cheer Cheer

Caught a Swans game while I was at home.  It was nice to see my name up on the list here at the back of the southern stand.  If you look carefully ...........

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R and R in Australia

Took my car out for a drive while home. I was hoping for better weather but it rained the whole time I was in Jindabyne except for about 2 hours on the Thursday.  I drove up to Charlotte's Pass and Guthega then down to Island Bend to see if I could get close to the Snowy River but all the old campsites were closed off with "Danger - Asbestos" signs up.

So I followed the old dirt road along the river and downhill, it was a bit hairy in the wet but I made it down the bottom of the dirt road.

And over the river.  From here the road is definitely 4 wheel drive only.  A lovely place for camping but better done in a vehicle with more than 100mm ground clearance.

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So now it's back to work for a few weeks then off to China again .

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