Picnic Lunch at Fagan Park

The Picnic Lunch at Fagan Park in Australia was a memorable one. It was December 30, 2006. For the first time, Connie, Philip, Ho Keung, Yin Ping, my wife and I had outdoor lunch together on grass.

Yin Ping first spread the plastic table cloth on the grass and placed on it two loaves of bread, ham, cans of food, nuts and fruits. We sat around the food on mats made from jute .

Connie was most interested in the beetroot on her slice of bread, while my wife some corn and tomato. I was busy taking a few photos of this kind of lunch on grassy field. This lunch was healthy for the ladies because it was almost vegetarian in nature except the ham which I was in favour of. At times, we had to wave our hands to drive away the unwelcome visitors – the flies.

To us, the lunch was an interesting one which required self-served, bread as dishes, art of mixing different kinds of food, high skill in eating without spilling any juice from whole tomatoes or falling of corn from the bread and most important of all, the close watch for flies that might land on the food.

It also reminded me of the pages of picnic scenes of small children in one of my English story books in the primary. The scenes in the book and those at Fagan Park likely match one another.