June 2020, Nambucca Heads, NSW
Dinner at the RSL
At 6pm we are picked up out front by the RSL courtesy bus (just us) and ferried to the club. Our temperature is checked, our hands are sanitised and we are shown to our well distanced table. Being in a very large building they are allowed 250 patrons and yet it seems much quieter than it has in the past. Or should I say pre Covid. We have the local specialty Black Fish or Luderick in a macadamia crust followed by walnut crepes. I can’t remember the last time I had a dessert but it is delicious. Patrick the bus driver drops us off just as the rain starts falling. It is a novelty to be behaving almost normal again but we are impressed by how well the club is handling ‘the new normal’.
Back home, the army has been called in to help quash the latest Melbourne Covid outbreak.
Macksville Pub
Our RSL driver had recommended that we try the revamped Macksville Hotel for a meal. We aren’t disappointed, in fact we leave raving. The lunch menu has a Mexican flavour, Schnitz with nachos, Chipotle burger and the not so Mexican pork belly and Asian salad with 3 large pieces topped with crunchy crackling. We sit in a sunny glass in courtyard soaking up the warm sun.
We return to happy hour in a quiet camp kitchen but we are feeling like a bunch of refugees. Especially when the NSW premier announces on the TV “I urge you not to do business with Melburnians.”
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This sounds excellent. Space is at a premium in most dining establishments here, so it’s tough to establish a new normal and have enough seating to be viable.
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The rivalry between SA & Vic. has always seemed to me to be only about football but some of the stuff that’s going on now is unpleasant. I hope you don’t have to face any nastiness, as the song says, “there but for fortune go you or I”.
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Yes, this second wave seems to have killed the ‘We’re all in this together’ sentiment. Stay safe.
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Tough times for everyone especially in Victoria as it seems to be experiencing a spike in cases. Nice to hear that you can get out for some semi-normal socialising though. I think most people are trying to do the right thing.
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I’m pleased you managed it.
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You need to look out for some bells to wear around your neck and practice the mantra “unclean, unclean.”
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That would do the trick. Back in February when all this was starting our mate Toothless (who is a frontline worker in his real life) was chanting “Bring out your dead”. How right he was.
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