(Used to be) Springwood Colquhouns: Sizzlin' sausages

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Sizzlin' sausages

Yesterday Jamie, Rob and I helped out with the Valley Heights RFS BBQ stand at Springwood Public School's Twilight Fair.

We met at the station about 1:30pm, got the gear loaded up into the truck and the PC and headed up to the school to set up.

Bruce soon had the BBQ going and was busy making sure things were cooked in the right order while 15 kg of onions were peeled and chopped and heaven only knows how many slices of bread were put betwe

en serviettes ready for selling.

We started off slow but by 6 we had a queue going back a fair way and we'd run out of onions. Not long later we'd also sold all 1000 sausages and had to go and buy more. We were only able to get another 50 at the local supermarket so we were all done and washed up by the time the fireworks started about 8pm.

We all traipsed over to the Big Red Truck and had the best seats in the house for the fireworks.

Click here for some more photos of the afternoon.

We capped off the evening with tea and stuff at Janet and Steven's house where somewhere along the line I ended up with Kate's undies on over my yellows!!

I'm not even going to try to explain . . .

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