Street Party
For the last few years Hamilton Street, Mont Albert, has held a Christmas street party in mid December each year.
They put one long one table along the middle of the street for the christmas dinner portion of the street party.
The first year we were all seated, introducing ourselves to our table neighbours when a fire engine, siren blaring, inched its way along the street.
"Oh" we exclaimed "what a good idea to have Santa arrive on a fire engine for the kiddies" (the childrens play area - bouncy castle, handball competition, basketball competition, petting zoo - was at the far end of the street past the dinner tables)
We continued with similar exclamations as the children raced up to the fire engine only to find out that Santa wassn't on board.
Yep, you guessed it - the fire engine was responding to a real fire.
A fire had broken out in the back room of the op shop so instead of seeing Santa arrive on the fire engine we got to watch firemen fighting a fire.
After the flire was extinguished the fireys were offered coffee and cake before they went back to the fire station, and we went back to our Christmas meal.
That was the only street party (so far) that the fireys have been at...
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