Australiana Pioneer Village - Working Bee - Nov 28

With our opening day of Australia Day 2011 coming closer the pressure is on to have everything ready for the big day.

(Left) Our concentration was on the chapel, which will be the venue for a wedding in December - now it needs a bit of TLC

(Right) The entrance had a nasty vine entanglement, which needed some cutting and lots of tugging


(Left) One up, and one down!!



(Right) Meanwhile outside the weeding and gardening continued




(Left) Lots of implements - and discussion

(Right) Inside, work continued on the pews




(Left) Ride on mowers are very handy for large areas





(Right) Gardening and wood restoring



(Left) The good old rotary mower comes into its own


(Right) The Iron Chefs of APV cook up a storm





(Left) The hungry crowd gathers

(Right) Tucking in



(Left) The Village is looking great



(Right) The buildings are getting ready for the big re-opening



(Left) Being the 40th anniversary of the original opening, it was commemorated by the planting of 4 trees (plus one for inflation) - 4 red cedars and 1 Australian Christmas

(Right) Another tree another hole


(Left) Down to a tube this time




(Right) Can't say that we don't get down to work on these working bees

(Below) We finished the lunch with some good old fashioned melodies - click on the start arrow underneath the picture to share the music