Series 2 of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ returned on Channel Ten last night with yet another episode featuring a social occasion – this time, a trip to the\u00a0Brunette (ABC) Races.\u00a0 Held on Brunette Downs (Barkly Tableland, NT) twice a year but with the largest gathering held in June, this Keeping up with the Joneses episode was filmed in 2010 – the year of the Brunette Races Centenary.<\/p>\n
Typically cloudless dry season skies above typically dusty horizons – with the ‘Barkly Breeze’ putting in an appearance making the fancy outfits fly up around the ears and campfires spread into the mitchell grass.<\/p>\n
The Brunette Races were described on ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ as the Territory’s biggest sporting event, which is not actually true (for example there are annual races in Darwin and Alice Springs which draw large crowds).\u00a0 However in 2010 the Brunette Races were the busiest they’d ever been\u00a0because so many extra people made the effort to travel from all over Australia to attend the special\u00a0centenary celebrations.\u00a0 The Brunette races are held over several days and feature horse\u00a0races, a campdraft, rodeo and childrens events.\u00a0 The first couple of days are quieter, mostly\u00a0residents from surrounding cattle stations.\u00a0 Whereas the last 2 days (weekend days) have a much bigger crowd, which includes more visitors from further afield.\u00a0 While there is food and drink to be purchased, visitors have to be largely self-sufficient – and it’s many hundreds of kilometres to the nearest supermarket of any kind.<\/p>\n
Next week’s episode of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ apparently features the chopper crash, which has appeared in the promos since last year, and the arrival of a couple of backpackers.<\/p>\n
People who have enjoyed watching ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ love the best-selling coffee table style books ‘A Million Acre Masterpiece’ and ‘Life as an Australian Horseman’.\u00a0 These unique books contain more than 500 photos taken on Australia’s largest cattle stations and every photo has a short but interesting caption, to help those unfamiliar with these cattle stations understand more about outback life.\u00a0 These books\u00a0are ideal Christmas gifts.\u00a0 Orders for 2 or more books come with a free calico carrybag and a good discount, books can be personally signed and mailed direct to anywhere in the world.\u00a0 The books\u00a0also come with a money-back guarantee of satisfaction.\u00a0 For more information on these outback\u00a0books, visit the Book Contents<\/a> page, or visit the Testimonials<\/a> page to read comments from other book purchasers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Series 2 of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ returned on Channel Ten last night with yet another episode featuring a social occasion – this time, a trip to the\u00a0Brunette (ABC) Races.\u00a0 Held on Brunette Downs (Barkly Tableland, NT) twice a year but with the largest gathering held in June, this Keeping up with the Joneses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,66,217],"tags":[214,215,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}