When you are an EXPAT living abroad the best thing a visitor can show up with is "a gift" from home. My sister would never think of visiting without a few bottles of her famous (but not sold in stores!) Whistlestop Marinade! With Ascot this week, our friends, Tim and Sandra, have had lots of Australian company and every single one bring them a treat basket with Vegemite (Sandra confesses she eats it on burnt toast), Tim Tam Chocolate Biscuits and Bundaburg Rum.
And this brings me to the story of the "Bundy Bell"......
Just behind the Eddy's back patio is a charming brick church with a tall bell tower and at certain times of the day the bells ring out the hour. It has become custom for the six o'clock bells to ring in cocktail hour with toasts and cheers at their house....thus the Bundy Bells! Rick and I have always subscribed to the American ballad "It's 5 o'clock Somewhere" but we have been known to show up at the Eddy's at 5:55 in anticipation of the Bundy Bells. There is something weird about salivating for a cocktail when the church bells ring......
Maybe it's really the anticipation of the "Meat on the Barbie" ??? Whichever, it's always a fun evening in Chelsea with good friends!
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I can almost smell that BBQ from here!
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