Australia night

Monday night I went to an Australia night held at the Henån Kajuta. It was really interesting but a bit weird to hear someone from Sweden talk about the country that you actually live in. It wasn't so much that as the fact that "his" Australia was not "my" Australia.  However, I would love to discover "his" Australia one day.

His name is Lars Wallin and he has worked a lot with aborigines up in Arnhem Land and played with an aborigine group as well. I loved how he used the didgeridoo in his music.

He also told us a few things that I didn't know. For example, it is only the group of aborigines up in Arnhem Land that use the didgeridoo. It is an instrument to accompany singing and always played by men. The name didgeridoo was given to this instrument by a "white feller", the aborigines themselves have other names for it depending if they are from the eastern or western part of Arnhem Land.

He had invited a group from Melbourne.  They were called College Fall and I really liked their sound as well. Some of their song sounded a little bit sad. They actually explained that. They both came from small cities in the country around Perth but due to the isolation there they had moved to Melbourne for their music. Sometimes they felt very homesick though and this is what came through in their song, I guess.

Here is my mother last Sunday when I took her out for lunch at the Långedrag sailing club restaurant. We had great fish on the terrasse in the sun.

When we walked out I noticed this sign. So this was the club that the Swedish medal winner belonged to, well done!!!