I'm in Australia visiting my daughter and family on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Yesterday we drove up into the Blackall Mountains (The Hinterland as it's known) to Maleny - about a 35 minute drive. There I took part in an Irish Session at Finbar's - a bar run by an Irish man. There were eight of us playing fiddles, mandolin, guitar, whistle, keyboard and bodhran.
It was a most enjoyable evening spent playing familiar and not so familiar Irish tunes in a really friendly atmosphere. It's amazing that you can travel halfway round the world and feel so at home - almost like being with The Haddenham Shamrocks!
I even ended up doing a couple of songs on the guitar I bought on Australian ebay!
The new strings that were on it were too light for me so I decided to change them. When I started the first string I noticed something strange in the top corner by the neck inside the guitar. It was a wasps' nest! With the help of a screw driver, I managed to prize it out whole. Here it is pictured below.
Luckily there were no signs of life. I wondered if I was the first person ever to discover a wasps' nest inside a guitar! I suppose it could only happen in Australia - or perhaps you know different!!
