Cotton on

Every Monday our mindset has for years always been Isabel’s druthers for embroidery—stitch and bitch—being the family’s colloquial terminology for Mum’s preferred hobby.
Staying in Toowoomba with Dorothy O’Connor we get to discuss with her son Rodney (Qld DPI) the various types of crops grown in this region; with cotton a hot-ticket item here abouts.
Today, being a Monday, found us making our way through the fertile black soils of Cecil Plains on our way to a lunch in Dalby with our caravanning friends Maureen and Buddy Statham.

What a find! 24 giant cotton reels loaded and ready to go to the local gin.

Lunch at the Coffee Club was a menu of mirth with every mouthful; Dot’s sheep station years spent at Mt Magnet versus Buddy’s mobs of Angus cattle, Maureen’s recent visit to the Melbourne flower festival and her advice of touristy things we need to get done on this holiday. (We first met the Stathams caravanning at 80 Mile Beach last year and caught up later on our journey at the Condamine pub, which is their local)

Tomorrow we trio head for Brisbane and a chance to spend four days exploring the Queensland capital from our 2 bed apartment on the river. We’ll be needing another chair on the verandah!