Lincoln's annual Australia Day Breakfast

I popped up to Lincoln for the annual Australia Day Breakfast yesterday. It’s put on by the local council to celebrate their links with Port Lincoln in South Australia and to raise money for charity.

Sally’s parents are from Lincoln. And her mum is always encouraging us to come up for event. (Mainly so she can see her grand daughter, I suspect.)

Her sales pitch is always the same. Aussies get their breakfast for free.

The breakfast is held in the auditorium at The Lawn, a hotel up in the cathedral quarter, right near the castle walls.

The locals all put on Akubra hats and pronounce ‘G’Day’ very badly. Nearby businesses donate all the bacon, sausages, eggs and beans. And you can spot the Aussies because they’re all wearing Wallabies jerseys.

(In the interest of full disclosure I should point out that Daisy wore hers. I took the slightly more understated option of donning a scarf I picked up from a dodgy street vendor when the Socceroos played the Reggae Boys at Craven Cottage.)

After eating our breakfast the MC encouraged us and anyone else who had finished eating to vacate the auditorium so other people could use the tables.

A guy who runs the Australia Shop in Stamford lay in wait just outside the door with a stall selling stuff from back home. I dropped £3.50 on a packet of Tim Tams. And met a bunch of Aussie pilots stationed at the Waddington RAF Base, just up the road.

They’d just spent a week’s worth of wages on some Mint Slices and a packet of Twisties.