Wanting to experience some local stuff in our first week, on Tuesday we headed across the road to the Irish-themed (and therefore slightly cheezee) Wilde Rover pub, where resident band the Jam Dawgs (their spelling not mine) hold a weekly jamming session with musicians from around town. Cue some bejeaned men in loud shirts sporting dubious facial hair and ponytails playing rock n roll toons on electric guitars. Actually it was quite fun - lots of wooping and spin your pardner by the hand-type of thing. We didn't dance - we sat Britishly in a booth and smiled from a distance. Yesterday was the weekly Kirkland Farmers Market down on Marina Park, which is right on the waterfront. Lots of expensive chutneys, vegetables and flowers on offer, as well as fresh popcorn, pizza, Greek-style kebabs (or
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