Who ate all the pies?

Juicy eh!

Australia is full of fruit. At various locations they have a Big Pineapple, a Big Banana and at Bowen halfway up the Queensland coast there's a Big Mango! Bowen is a fairly unremarkable town by the sea but it was the location for the filming of the Nicole Kidman film Australia....and it has a big mango designed to celebrate the fact that the finest mangoes down under come from Bowen. We were also hoping to sample some of Jochheims' famous pies. This was in fact the real reason we'd diverted off the Bruce Highway - it was one o'clock and we were ravenous - a tasty pie would hit the spot surely. But we were foiled - Jochheims was shut for a refurb!

I love Australian pies (New Zealand is even better for pies!) and they're not just beef and steak and kidney. On Jochheims' menu they have plenty of choice and I was looking forward to the curry pie. And so we drove round town looking for second best - but, alas, the other pie shop was also shut - apparently they'd decided to take a last minute, week long holiday! In desperation we called in a little baker's shop....they'd sold out of pies, "We've been very busy this morning for some reason." So we had to settle for some very tasty sausage rolls which were unaccountably sliced down the middle and filled with mushy peas - delicious!

Looks just like the sort of thing we'd find in Queensland - except that this is the inside of the gents loos at Dobbie's Garden World in Lisburn, Northern Ireland - we'd just done the Citypark Parkrun in Craigavon a couple of weeks ago and needed some lunch - for those in the know Dobbie's does a cracking lunch. I thought I'd try to fit this photo in somewhere as it is rather special. Do your plants need watering?