Behind every good man there is a good woman rolling her eyes… well, rubbing her eyes in this instance, while she keeps the home fires burning.
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Whilst the Blaze Aid volunteers are working seven days a week to renew fences for the farmers involved with the Sir Ivan Fire, and doing a great job, let’s not forget the behind the scenes workers who provide three meals a day to keep the fence workers going. Also to the cooks of the community who provide cakes and biscuits and sometimes additional meals, run the pop up shop, and event organisers and contact points and the endless list of other jobs that no one knows about.
The women associated with the fence workers (mainly grey nomads) are on breakfast duty and get up at 5am to make sure breakfast is ready and food is available for lunches which workers (men and women) pack for themselves before leaving for the job.
Other women, within the camp (caravans, motor homes and tents at Dunedoo showground, and Cassilis) come on duty at 8am to prepare lunch for the administration team (none of this would happen without them) and the women who have just made breakfast.
With a very clean kitchen, another local group from the town’s community groups and surrounding towns and villages, arrive in the afternoon from 3.30pm onwards. These people prepare around 80 meals a night, (sometimes up to 150) for the fence builders, administrators and the breakfast and lunch workers and sometimes farmers.
These people prepare around 80 meals a night, (sometimes up to 150).
- Pip and Maureen Sullivan