Melbourne Cup

Unless one can be over in Melbourne itself, there are few better places to watch the Melbourne Cup from than the Australian High Commission. They put on an excellent function with typically great Australian hospitality. And doubly beneficial for me, they are my next door neighbours (bastards partially block my view) so getting home after drinking is seriously not an issue.

Just to make the day better, I won $70 on their Melbourne Cup Sweep-stake, for A Jeune’s second place. Makybe Diva won comfortably.

Several National MPs there, and Heather from ACT. Don’t think I saw any Government MPs at all, not even our beloved Foreign Minister. A few Govt staff though. Lots of teasing of diplomats over how they explained to their Governments back home that NZ now has a Foreign Minister who claims to be an Opposition MP. They all admitted it required lengthy memos, and one said their advice was to never touch MMP 🙂