Connie's Diary: March 1

Got up at the crack of dawn again, and drove to MMM carbq (a bbq conducted from the back of a car) but I fell asleep in the car on the way, and my considerate brother thought I must need the shut eye and let me keep sleeping while he did the MMM interview. I woke up just as they were finishing and we were ready to head off to the next one, with Michael Hayley, and Burgo on SAFM which was a lot of fun, and I was a lot more awake for!

Then busy busy busy, over to the Clipsal 500 – it is all happening in Adelaide, with the Fringe Festival and the Clipsal 500 it is pretty busy! Wow, again I have been blown over by peoples generosity. Gino, from Reo Beam Concrete has decked out their corporate box in Love Your Sister madness!

He had T-shirts made, table clothes printed, pink decorations on all the walls, signage for the walls and he had stickers printed for the V8 supercars, so not only did we have access to a Love Your Sister Box, but a lot of the cars had LYS branding on them too. Gino was so dedicated and gave a lot of time and resources to fundraising for LYS. He raised more than $2100 from his fundraising efforts in his box while the Clipsal was on. Thanks heaps Gino! What a great guy!

This was my first experience of car racing, I had never been to a race of any description before, V8s, motorbikes, formula 1, nothing. It was quite a sight, and sound! I had to leave the Clipsal, reluctantly, in order to go back to Jody’s place to cook up some food for the boys to take with them on the road.

Cooking takes on whole new proportions when cooking for the boys. All of the food we cooked 2 weeks earlier and frozen for them to take with them has been eaten, so it was time to restock. We had 3 slow cookers, the biggest wok you have ever seen and 3 massive pots all going at once to cook up enough food to get them through the next few weeks. You can see the proportions of the cook up on the LYS you tube channel, in Love Your Cook-up. If it isn’t up yet, it will be soon.

No sooner did we have all the food on the stove, than we had to pack up and go again, this time for a live cross from the project. This was my second live cross in as many days, and it doesn’t get any easier, it is so hard to look down the camera and not see the people you are talking to! I hope we don’t look like a pair of fools on the tele!

After an exhausting few days I had a quick chat with Mel and another pat and hang out with her beautiful chocky Labrador, Barney, before collapsing into bed.

Leaving, mixed feelings all over again