This weekend was the Murrumbateman Field Day(s). Murrumbateman is just down the road from Yass (15kms) and it was the weekend of the annual Field Day. These days are all about machinery, animals and more machinery, but it seems that more and more people just selling everything has crept in. Thou the only two dollar style places are some of the stalls selling cheap tools.

So on Saturday morning Lee-Ann, Alyssa and I headed off early, Lynsey thought it would be boring and none of her friends were going, so she stayed at home. It was good day, tiring as it is quite spread out. One of the good things they do is give each child a card to get stamped at certain stalls so it means that we had to visit every corner of the place to collect all the stamps, which meant backtracking as we missed stalls.

While there we managed to speak to some producers of products we buy or intend buying in the future. Like Brinadabella bee keeping supplies we spoke about our small hive in our gum tree and how and when we can start our own hive. We spoke to Tony who makes the Le Barre olive oil that we buy from our local butcher and found that he can supply a large 4 litre tin of olive oil and since we buy a lot of olive oil seems to be a good idea for the future.  No-one in yass wishes to stock it due to space issues whcih sems strange as it is a nice size tin.  We spoke to the owners of  Minto Galloway who rear their beef and we can also order direct from them, local beef, organically produced, so will save time going to the canberra farmers market – If only our freezer was bigger.  So in all going to the field day was worthwhile for us even if I did get a bit sun bunt

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