It was Foundation Day in Springwood on Saturday. The main street is blocked off and stalls go up on both sides of the street all the way down its length and there is a fun fair and a couple of stages with community groups giving performances - school choirs and bands, various dance troupes, etc. We Springwood Colquhouns were all involved one way or another.
It was a glorious day - it always seems to turn out nice for Foundation Day - I nearly wrote there were blue skies, but that's not entirely true, there'd been a hazard reduction (burn off) at Faulconbridge and Linden the day before so there was smoke coming from the west. In the east there were blue skies.
First out the door on Saturday morning were Heidi and the boys. We had to be at the fire station by 07:30. We were doing crowd control duty. It wasn't toooooo onerous. There was a fun run that came through mid morning and we had to run the tapes out and man the barricades for that but then we had several hours to kill, so we wandered around in little gangs getting cuppas, watching some of the dancers and singers and eating - Heidi with Marie and Bec, two of the VHRFS ladies, Rob with his mate Leigh (also VHRFS) and Jamie caught up with some of his school mates.
We were back on duty around 1pm for the big parade coming through. Keeping back the larger crowds then was not easy. I watched Marie as she marched up and down her patch telling people to get back and make way for the trucks - she'd get them moving back in front of her but they would surge back forward once she was past - it was like watching King Canute try to keep the tide from coming in!
Ian and Ishbel meanwhile were kitting themselves out in Scout gear. They were in the march and then helped out at the Scout BBQ for a while.
It was a glorious day - it always seems to turn out nice for Foundation Day - I nearly wrote there were blue skies, but that's not entirely true, there'd been a hazard reduction (burn off) at Faulconbridge and Linden the day before so there was smoke coming from the west. In the east there were blue skies.
First out the door on Saturday morning were Heidi and the boys. We had to be at the fire station by 07:30. We were doing crowd control duty. It wasn't toooooo onerous. There was a fun run that came through mid morning and we had to run the tapes out and man the barricades for that but then we had several hours to kill, so we wandered around in little gangs getting cuppas, watching some of the dancers and singers and eating - Heidi with Marie and Bec, two of the VHRFS ladies, Rob with his mate Leigh (also VHRFS) and Jamie caught up with some of his school mates.
We were back on duty around 1pm for the big parade coming through. Keeping back the larger crowds then was not easy. I watched Marie as she marched up and down her patch telling people to get back and make way for the trucks - she'd get them moving back in front of her but they would surge back forward once she was past - it was like watching King Canute try to keep the tide from coming in!
Ian and Ishbel meanwhile were kitting themselves out in Scout gear. They were in the march and then helped out at the Scout BBQ for a while.
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