Sunny Sat'dy with Leonard Cohen

Hi Everyone! Dunno about you guys, but I had such a nice weekend enjoying the lovely sunshine on both days! On Saturday I started off at Josh's place and he wanted to show me his garden! He is from here on to be known as "the courtyard farmer". He is showing me his desiree potatoes... that is not a euphemism...

Then after hanging out at his place, we went to Hanging Rock with a picnic to see a concert. His mum got tickets for him for his birthday - and i got to go along! If you haven't heard about 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'... it's this creepy movie. I haven't actually seen it... but i assume it is creepy... 

It was a really nice day! We were running late and missed Clare Bowditch and Dan Sultan, but we saw Paul Kelly and Leonard Cohen. Very chilled out day! We had a little picnic and listened to the tunes....

Biatch in the pink Akubra hat wouldn't stop dancing. And i'm talking inappropriate sexy bedroom dancing. And she was about... 50 years old and not the slimmest of creatures, her husband seemed rather indifferent to her behaviour. Everyone was yelling "sit down" at her but she kept on dancing, red wine in hand. At the end of the night there was some of that red wine all down the front of her white shirt too. Josh's grandpa was with us and his claws came out and he called her a 'fat bitch' OUCCHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was pretty funny though!! Here's Josh...

I bet you don't know what that says :P Maybe Shiho will know ^_^ Let's just say that it's the title of a song by Air and it plays in my head every time I look at Josh hehe

That was our delicious picnic of wine, dips, cheese, fruit paste, bruscetta, and vietnamese rice paper rolls. Was great! Leonard Cohen read this poem aloud, and it was the best spoken poem I have ever heard. He is a genius.

It was just a shame how the night ended sort of. We were told not to drive there, but instead to get a V-line train and then get a free shuttle bus from Woodend Station. Well, it all seemed like too much hassle so I drove to woodend and parked at the train station and got the free shuttle from there. The driver said that at the end of the night he didn't think we should meet the buses at the drop off point, but instead at the other side of the venue. When the concert was finishing, we asked a staff member who told us definately to go back where we were dropped off. So we did, and we waited about 45 mins with a bunch of about 30 people. Then we found out that in fact we WERE meant to be at the other side of the arena so we circled it on unlit dirt tracks, stumbling through the freezing night air. I thought we really were going to get lost. The most disconcerting thing was that for every one of us walking towards gate 6, there were about the same number walking back from there.... but they were looking for a different bus. 

So we got to Gate 6 and saw a SWARM of drunk and angry people. Leonard Cohen soothed us with his peaceful words and then public transport dissipated whatever happiness there was. I should have taken photos. Anyway we waited in that crowd for a while and eventually at about 11pm or so we got pushed onto a bus. On the hour drive from Woodend back to Josh's I was sleepy so we stopped at Maccas to get a coffee. But then i couldnt sleep when i got home hehe! Oh what a night!!