Tottenham.

Tottenham is another small town surrounded by farmland. Not much here, but the caravan park was in a very pretty setting and was exceptionally clean and offered very good value....$16 p.n. or pay for 3 nights and stay for 4, so we decided to stay and catch up on the domestics. I have to confess I'm addicted to an Australian television series on Sunday nights called "A Place to Call Home". Its only a short series, and as luck would have it, it was on the night we decided to stay at Tottenham.......what a coincidence !!!!
Caught up on the washing & boring stuff and I also caught up on some embroidery. I'm a member of an internet stitching site and within that, a member of 3 different swap groups......a birthday fabric postcard group, a birthday ATC ( Artist Trading Cards) group and a fabric book page group.....so I had 5 ATC's to make to complete the year and a book page for the month of May. I finished all those and posted off the book page to a girl in India, so I felt quite content that for once I was in front!!!
I'll post photos of them when the recipients let me know they've received them.
We also did our usual walk around the town....we've been very lucky with the weather, we've had beautiful days, some cold nights and except for one day, no rain at all.

I liked these mosaic seats and wall art depicting the lifestyle of Tottenham. Very clever & cute.

When we were driving to Pilliga, we passed through the townships of Warren & Coonamble. While Warren is a decent sized town, Coonamble is not a place I need to go back to. Most of the main street shops are empty and the town looks like it is slowly dying.
Just before we arrived in Warren, we passed by the biggest cotton production I've seen. It was massive, not just the enormous paddocks, but the whole industry. There are hundreds of thousands of acres out here in central west NSW devoted to cotton production and when the cotton season is over, any one who sows wheat, immediately launches into sowing and planting the seeds. I guess if you have the land & both crops, you'd never have a break!!!

Apparently this year hasn't been a bumper cotton crop but because there is a new and faster way of picking & baling the cotton, the gins can't keep up with the processing and so some limits have been introduced on a rotation basis. And there are thousands of bales sitting in paddocks.

Cruising down the road we saw a sign pointing to a side road with a "Utes in the Paddock" billboard. Intrigued we set off to see what it was all about. As the photos below show, there are numerous Holden utes turned into works of art by some if the country's best artists.
The owners of the property went on a trip to USA and were impressed by the memorabilia displayed on Route 66 and the amount of tourists stopping to see it, so they thought about how they could get people to visit the central west and what better way than the iconic Aussie ute, absolutely necessary on any farm. And this is the result of their efforts.

Aussie sense of humour at its best !!