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Not only is it the day after May Day, but it’s also... World Naked Gardening Day.
No hiding your attributes in the bushes today, people.
Actually, the thing which surprises us most about this is that today is the 10th annual WNGD and we’re wondering how the heck we managed to miss this for nine years.
Time to be creative.
Insert rude puns, jokes and double entendres
Here (a)
Here (b)
And here (c)
Good old knees-up
It is appropriate that WNGD immediately follows May Day.
While here in Australia it’s meant to commemorate workers of the world, in many older and European cultures it’s a celebration of spring.
It goes back to Roman times and was a festival of Flora, the goddess of flowers. There was lots of singing, dancing, wassailing (look it up) and falling about. Which then may be the actual precursor of today’s knees-up in the agapanthus.
Stay covered
The theme continues all weekend, it seems.
Tomorrow is World Wish Day, perhaps the day when you wish you hadn’t wassailed quite so much and ended up naked in the garden.
In Bendigo, we celebrate World Wish Day with a bare gathering in Rosalind Park. No, wait, that’s BEAR gathering.
There’s a Teddy Bears’ Picnic in the park with a treasure hunt, face painting and games all to raise funds for the Make A Wish Foundation.
So, just to make sure: it’s a Teddy BEAR’S Picnic.
Keeping Moovers fed
There might still be a few young people in strange animal “onesies” floating through the park after today’s Groovin The Moo extravaganza at the Showgrounds.
And a big shout out to the valiant Bendigo Sandhurst Rotarians who have made it a tradition to cook thousands upon thousands of sausages late into the night at the Bendigo Railway Station on GTM nights to help the Moovers get home safely on the Melbourne trains.
Show must go on
GTM has had some sticky moments so far this year.
At Oakbank in South Australia last Saturday there were some interesting images on Facebook of young folk trying to dance in ankle deep thick mud... to one of the top bands Sticky Fingers (heh heh).
Bunbury’s GTM on Sunday was held in scorching heat, and next Saturday it moves to Maitland, which is copping its second drenching in a week.
We groove in a land, as the song says, of floods and sweeping drains.
It's all above board
Some remarked last weekend on the marvellous tradition of the “gunfire breakfast” after the dawn Anzac service in Bendigo. Those of us who’ve taken part for the first time are sometimes surprised to find a rather tasty coffee and rum brew offered to help wash down the barbecued sausages.
But, it’s all ridgy didge, because a report to the Victorian Parliament in 2002 said: “there are instances where liquor trading is complementary to the conduct of an ANZAC morning ceremony.
“A particular instance of this is the holding of a gunfire breakfast (Victoria, Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee, Parliamentary Review of ANZAC Day Laws).”
Cheers to that, we say.
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