The Northern Rivers Times
December 14, 2023
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Diary of a flood survivor
This fruitcake is a winner By Samantha Elley Being part of the agricultural show circuit is in Kelly Knight’s blood. The Tatham resident recently took out first
For the past 21 months our little village has been without a grocer and a fuel station. For various different reasons those two businesses did not make it back to trading at Woodburn, unlike other areas. When the fuel tank is at a quarter full we have to decide whether we will go into Evans Head or up to Broadwater to get what we need. Sometimes that means doubling back if we are going into Casino or out to Lismore. Last week the owner of the IGA in Woodburn sent me a message to say that at long last, work is starting on fixing up the shop.
She was excited as it has been a long trail of bureaucracy and paperwork to get to this point, but I am guessing there is a tinge of sadness, as the building has to be gutted and torn down. This is because Woodburn only had a newly renovated IGA for a few months before the flood hit. One lasting vision of February 28, 2022 was our friends, who live on the higher side of Woodburn, had raced into IGA to get supplies, thinking they would be stranded in their house as the waters came through. She walked back with two bagfuls of groceries
which were soon abandoned when they had to evacuate later that night. I may have mentioned in a previous column that we have been using the neighbour system of getting those last minute groceries. You know, when you are in the middle of cooking dinner and realise you don’t have that can of beans or avocado or not enough eggs? Now, hopefully the new year will bring a new grocery shop for Woodburn and a trip to get sugar won’t mean disturbing our neighbours. Little steps.
place for Best Rich Fruitcake in the Far North Coast final for agricultural shows in Group One, so now she is off to Sydney. “I am the third generation of our family to be in the show,” said Kelly. “I show in the veggie
Kelly said some tips
(the cake) was judged,”
section, cooking, craft
that have worked for her
she said.
and flowers.
include having the oven
“I was in tears when I
“I also show stud cattle
down low and cooking
won and rang my mum
the cake slower, which
who was shopping in
brings out the colour.
Lismore, and she started
“There has to be a
crying too when I told
certain height, the same
her.”
tin size and there are also
And for those
textures and flavours,
wondering what happens
if the fruit is evenly
to the winning cake.
distributed and if they’ve
“We are allowed to
been cut a certain way,”
bring the cake home,”
she said.
said Kelly.
and will make another
“There’s a few things
“Everyone has been
cake to enter zone in the
that factor into it.”
taste testing it.”
(Royal Easter) Show in
Despite her
Next year, instead of
Sydney next year,” she
nervousness, Kelly was
taking down cattle to
said.
excited to be part of the
Sydney, Kelly will be
“I’ve been trying a few
competition and was
armed with her latest
different techniques off
thrilled to realise her
fruitcake creation in the
the judges who have
achievement.
hope of bringing gold
previously judged, as
“I love to compete and
back to the Northern
well as the CWA ladies.”
was very happy when
Rivers.
and show steers.” The recent win has been a journey for Kelly who, in past years has made it to zone group one final with her fruit cake but this is the first
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