Just one quick bitch ...

["couldbecousin"]

My bitch is that a food and wine event that used to be free and fantastic is now a ticketed event...and freaking expensive.

No more free and ... sorry to hear that. Who used to sponsor it?

Really can't remember, but when it started, I think about 5 years ago, it was a free event at the Convention Centre....you could float around, taste wines, condiments, cheese, food, at every stand. I got to take my daughter to see cooking sessions with well known Australian chefs, and up and coming chefs. I don't even think the website was more than a couple of pages, not much info and it was very unknown.

It's a money making machine now.

Now it's like presale tickets are now online just for entry, plus on top of entry fee any sessions (only 30mins) with celebrity chefs are around $30 each. That's presale visa price, so they will be actually more than that when the whole lot of tickets are released.

I think it would be hard for any of the genuinely small, boutique food and wine suppliers that used to be there to be able to afford a stand there nowadays.

That's too bad. Looks as if greed has spoiled another cool thing. 

[Queen Victoria]

Agreed about greed.  About the only thing us poor folks can do is window shop.  I'm expecting them to start putting up a curtain in the windows and charge passers-by for a peek.  I definitely will NOT be a Peeping Tom(mette) if I have to pay for it.  Free is okay.

[Eclair]

Agreed about greed.  About the only thing us poor folks can do is window shop.  I'm expecting them to start putting up a curtain in the windows and charge passers-by for a peek.  I definitely will NOT be a Peeping Tom(mette) if I have to pay for it.  Free is okay.

It just happens all the time and it's annoying. We used to have a great music festival up in the mountains, where, yes...the smell of marijuana was in the air, but there were great little stalls, handicrafts, food, just really lovely. Then it became too big for the little town it was held in. So we had this beautiful little folk festival, and now this is what it has turned into;

http://www.woodfordfolkfestival.com/main/index.php?cID=1925&menuID=168&apply=&webpage=default

There's nothing that resembles what it was or the spirit of what it started as.

Same with our Greek Festival. When I went in 1998, it was this beautiful Autumn day, we went for a peek and ended up drunk on too many fee samples of greek wine, eating marinated octupus on a rug....being ferried home by our friends boyfriend and his friend because we were all too drunk to drive. (We had originally gone to West End for a brunch coffee, then thought we might wander over and check it out). Brilliant little festival. Again, now it is a machine....and the experience you would have there now is quite different to the spirit in which it started.

It's nice when things are popular and successful. It's just when the hordes discover it and it morphs into something which resembles nothing of the original intent annoys me.

Maybe I'm just getting old!

[P7PSP]

Agreed about greed.  About the only thing us poor folks can do is window shop.  I'm expecting them to start putting up a curtain in the windows and charge passers-by for a peek.  I definitely will NOT be a Peeping Tom(mette) if I have to pay for it.  Free is okay.

It just happens all the time and it's annoying. We used to have a great music festival up in the mountains, where, yes...the smell of marijuana was in the air, but there were great little stalls, handicrafts, food, just really lovely. Then it became too big for the little town it was held in. So we had this beautiful little folk festival, and now this is what it has turned into;

http://www.woodfordfolkfestival.com/main/index.php?cID=1925&menuID=168&apply=&webpage=default

There's nothing that resembles what it was or the spirit of what it started as.

Same with our Greek Festival. When I went in 1998, it was this beautiful Autumn day, we went for a peek and ended up drunk on too many fee samples of greek wine, eating marinated octupus on a rug....being ferried home by our friends boyfriend and his friend because we were all too drunk to drive. (We had originally gone to West End for a brunch coffee, then thought we might wander over and check it out). Brilliant little festival. Again, now it is a machine....and the experience you would have there now is quite different to the spirit in which it started.

It's nice when things are popular and successful. It's just when the hordes discover it and it morphs into something which resembles nothing of the original intent annoys me.

Maybe I'm just getting old!

No, you are right, Chesterton's Reflections On A Rotten Apple discusses the mentality . There is a Greek Orthodox Church in town that does a Greek celebration weekend once a year with Greek music and food and drink available for nominal prices. I hope that stays the same.

[Eclair]

Agreed about greed.  About the only thing us poor folks can do is window shop.  I'm expecting them to start putting up a curtain in the windows and charge passers-by for a peek.  I definitely will NOT be a Peeping Tom(mette) if I have to pay for it.  Free is okay.

It just happens all the time and it's annoying. We used to have a great music festival up in the mountains, where, yes...the smell of marijuana was in the air, but there were great little stalls, handicrafts, food, just really lovely. Then it became too big for the little town it was held in. So we had this beautiful little folk festival, and now this is what it has turned into;

http://www.woodfordfolkfestival.com/main/index.php?cID=1925&menuID=168&apply=&webpage=default

There's nothing that resembles what it was or the spirit of what it started as.

Same with our Greek Festival. When I went in 1998, it was this beautiful Autumn day, we went for a peek and ended up drunk on too many fee samples of greek wine, eating marinated octupus on a rug....being ferried home by our friends boyfriend and his friend because we were all too drunk to drive. (We had originally gone to West End for a brunch coffee, then thought we might wander over and check it out). Brilliant little festival. Again, now it is a machine....and the experience you would have there now is quite different to the spirit in which it started.

It's nice when things are popular and successful. It's just when the hordes discover it and it morphs into something which resembles nothing of the original intent annoys me.

Maybe I'm just getting old!

No, you are right, Chesterton's Reflections On A Rotten Apple discusses the mentality . There is a Greek Orthodox Church in town that does a Greek celebration weekend once a year with Greek music and food and drink available for nominal prices. I hope that stays the same.

Yes, I had a quick look....but will read through it properly later. Thanks.

[Adam]

Dropped one of my tablets on the floor and can't find the fucker. wonder where it went. better find it before the dog comes up. don't want her on my ocd meds 

[Adam]

found my tablet btw.

Kind of annoyed as I wanted to take some photos of another couple of books today but there's no point as my computer is still fucked 

I might try and post it with my mum's computer

[Peter]

Dropped one of my tablets on the floor and can't find the fucker. wonder where it went. better find it before the dog comes up. don't want her on my ocd meds 

My dog got hold of one of my pills a couple of years ago.  I was able to get her to drop it, but not before half of it had dissolved in her mouth.  She was very agitated for a few hours afterwards and didn't seem to enjoy the experience.

['andersom']

Hot fingers, no matter how many times I washed them.

Sauce tasted great, but when I touch my face with the fingers of my left hand, it kind of burns. 

[P7PSP]

Hot fingers, no matter how many times I washed them.

Sauce tasted great, but when I touch my face with the fingers of my left hand, it kind of burns. 

That sucks. I had that happen before. 

['andersom']

Hot fingers, no matter how many times I washed them.

Sauce tasted great, but when I touch my face with the fingers of my left hand, it kind of burns. 

That sucks. I had that happen before. 

Had it before this summer. 
Need to get myself some decent gloves I think.

 

[odeon]

Don't have anything to bitch about. Doesn't seem like the right thing to do, after a great holiday.

['andersom']

Broke my favourite mug.

["couldbecousin"]

Broke my favourite mug.

Awwww, here's a new one. -----> 

['andersom']

Broke my favourite mug.

Awwww, here's a new one. -----> 

Mine was blue, and painted by me. Last year the kids and I decorated our mugs. And I got told to make mine with hearts on it. 

The hearts did not break, but the cup did. My youngest was very sad because of my mug breaking.