Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Saga

After a long, but good flight on Air Canada from Vancouver to Brisbane I landed back in Australia. I rode the tilt train for another 4 hours and got to Bundaberg where Georgia has been sleeping for the last few months. I got a room in the Lighthouse Motel. This is one of those places that is clean enough, but they don’t take any online reservations that I can find and certainly don’t push for any high star count.

While staying in the motel I got to enjoy the best of Australian TV. The news was all atwitter over the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle controversy. Bunnings is the local hardware store chain, much like a Home Depot or a Lowes. They like to regularly sell have a sausage sizzle on temporary tables setup out front of the doors. Its usually a charity doing the actual selling. In North American that means they are selling hotdogs on a slice of Wonderbread. For safety reasons they have decided to move the cooked onions to underneath the hotdog instead of on top. This reduces the chance of a rouge onion slice falling on the floor and causing someone to slip and fall. Very controversial, even the Prime Minister has piped in when he was in Singapore for a world leader meeting: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/pm-weighs-in-on-bunnings-sausage-sizzle-debate

While back in the US for so long the constant news cycle of the next less than honorable thing that Trump did was getting really old. There's just so many times you can listen to yet another bold face lie and bother to keep listening. We need a hotdog saga to ease the pain.
After a few days got Georgia back in the water. It takes a long time to strip a boat for a long storage. Unfortunately it takes even longer to put her back together. Most things seem to be still working. The Yanmar engine fired right up. Pumps are working. Failures include the gas-struts in the boom vang and the remote radio microphone. Next up is to get the sails back on, get Chris back here from Nepal and start to head south. Plan is to do a quick haulout with a bottom paint and miscellaneous in the Boat Works yard up the Coomera River south of Brisbane. Should take 3-5 days to get there, weather depending.

 (politico.com)