'Gymea Lily'

Doryanthes excelsa
Doryanthes excelsa, known as Gymea Lily, is a flowering plant indigenous to the coastal areas of New South Wales near Sydney.
The plant has sword-like leaves more than a meter long. It flowers in spring and summer, sending up a flower spike up to 6 m high, which at its apex bears a large cluster of bright red flowers, each 10 cm across.

I've noticed heaps of these around the city all flowering at the moment, they are massive, funnily enough I've never really taken any notice of these in the past.

The bread machine worked a treat last night / this morning, we awoke to freshly baked bread which we sampled while it was still warm with nothing but butter on it. Mmmm.