Murrumbateman Field Days

This weekend (17th/18th October) Murrumbateman holds its biggest event of the year, the Murrumbateman Field Days. This is a huge open-air event, a combination of agricultural trade show (landwirtschaftliche Gewerbeschau), handicraft/machinery demonstrations, market and funfair (Volksfest). It was really very different and interesting to see.

They have lots of machinery, but also lots of farm animals -- various breed of cattle, sheep, alpacas, goats, chickens and the list goes on.

This thing here was an old steam engine vehicle, blowing steam and whistling.

We had great luck with the weather: after weeks of rain the sky finally brightened up and it became the first nice spring weekend of the year. Visitors come amass from Canberra and surroundings. The whole event took place, as the name suggests, on a field, and vistor parking was on the grass too -- but well organized and no mud thanks to the good weather.

The Eversons had a stand on the festival as well, in a tent, with brochures of Schonegg for advertisement and selling homemade gourmet jams. And our freebie were samples of a yummy apple slice (Apfelstreuselkuchen), with a copy of the recipe by Katja.

Maybe some of you in Germany would like to bake it too? The recipe is above.

Here are some cute sheep and lambs.








And these funny-looking fellows are freshly shorn alpacas. They have very soft, high quality wool -- and they can be eaten as well and taste like lamb, I have been told. They have interesting long necks and attracive faces with beautiful eyes.