Woodford day 2 - when the rains came

Well, it started raining last night (after a day of on-again – off-again showers) and hasn’t stopped yet. Every hour or so, the sun will peep out, see what’s happening and then, decide it really doesn’t want to shine after all and down comes the rain.

The upside is that it’s nice and cool. The downside is the mud. EVERYWHERE! But Aussies are a hardy lot and there are people walking around throughout this enormous venue – even at this early hour – with gumboots and clear plastic rain ponchos and everyone is smiling! If this keeps up for 40 days and 40 nights, we might see a few disgruntled faces. But right now, everyone is just dealing with what is here and enjoying it greatly. Ken and I went for a wander yesterday when the stalls were just getting set up and it was great to see the huge number of organic food places. We pretty well finished off the food in our esky last night (we weren’t sure that anything would be open until today so we came prepared) but this morning, it will be hot organic coffee, organic croissants and hopefully, if we can find them, some organic or free range eggs too. Getting hungry yet? Today from 4:45 PM until 6:00 PM there will be a forum on Optimal Health Strategies. It is being coordinated by Dr Carole Hungerford, author of Good Health in the 21st Century. I have seen her speak before and she is fantastic. I will be taking part in this forum along with Kathryn Alexander who wrote Get a Life and who is a Gerson practitioner dealing with cancer issues, Catherine Mercer from the Art of Healing magazine, and others. It promises to be a very exciting and informative hour and fifteen minutes – I hope to see some of you there. This morning, venue permitting (some of these look like they may be outdoors so who knows if they will be moved or cancelled?), I am looking forward to checking out the Crystal Bowl Meditation with Raelene Byrne (I have heard a lot about this but never actually ‘heard’ it) and the Shakespeare shorts from Romeo and Juliet – must be like a Reader’s Digest version of the play? All the good bits without any of the fillers? And just before the forum, also at the Blue Lotus, Mukti is going to be presenting a Love Your Skin – Healthy Solutions seminar which I would love to go to. I love natural skincare and Mukti has been doing this for a long time and I’m sure she will have a lot to share. Maybe I can get her to condense some of this into an article for our January or March edition? I’ll let you know. In any case, my stomach is telling me it's time to stop typing and go and find food. I hope you all have a lovely, blessed day and don't forget, if you are at Woodford, please drop into the Blue Lotus and say hi!