Leo, Roving Reporter
Report from: My stomach
Story filed: Food and Words 2021
Hi people, Leo here. On the 20 of November my mum and I embarked on a trip from Bathurst to Martin Boetz's Cooks Shed, right on the Hawkesbury River at Sackville for an amazing event called Food and Words. Food and Words is a Writers' Festival that my aunt Barbara runs and organises every year. My aunty is actually the person who started the festival. At different times, my mum and all her sisters have been helping out at each festival over the years. A few of my cousins have helped my aunty with the festival too and now that I'm old enough it's my turn to help out. My mum and I started the day set up in front of the shearing shed that was the festival venue (it is also a restaurant), greeting the guests as they arrived and signing them in with the QR code and getting their proof of vaccinations. Then we signed them in on the computer as well. When there were no more guests to check in, the festival started. I then mucked around on the ipad when there was talking from the guest speakers and when they had a break I would come down from the rock I was sitting on under the big tree on the hill and have something to eat. I do regret not listening to some of the talks, but my mum listened to most of them and some sounded interesting. Like the scientist who studied the nutritional eating habits of locusts and how that can help us understand humans! The food was amazing and I had a great time but the best bit was at morning tea where we ate delicious homemade sausage rolls and onion tarts. The food was top notch all day, Sadly my mum and I could not stay for dinner which was a shame, as later on I spoke to my aunty on the phone and she told me what was for dinner and it sounded so amazing. I will definitely be at the next Food and Words.
Until next time
Leo Roving Reporter
