Summary of Meeting 22 July 2014
Posted by Phil Wade
The meeting was opened in the usual way with grace being bestowed on all and a discussion of jackets, ties and shirts.
Intro to guests and guest speaker
PP John Donald bade Amida and Michael Waterhouse welcome.
President Tom
Getting a prostate radiotherapy himself and encountered PP Ian who was in for the same reason. Also mentioned that Noel Gladen was about and sympathy for wife Miriam who is in Carolyn Chism and unwell.
Directors
Ann mentioned that the Art show was coming up and suggested that we all kick in either some friends, a plate of sandwiches or $20.
PP Roger Wescombe told us that Neville was up and down, battling on and happy to receive visitors.
Tom welcomed back the Silinks from their visit to the United Nations and other ports of call.
Sergeant Ian
Being rather subdued, Ian decided that personal fines were the order of the day, and with no regard for station in life or personal reputations that might have needed some degree of buttressing, struck out unexpectedly, startling such luminaries as Robyn, all the birthday people, 3 “clowns”, (JP, DD, CC), Dick White who worked with DD in Fiji for CSR as 19 YOs and because the Brumbies beat the Chiefs, Frank Rule for commandeering the guest speaker, Harry for the bull run on the stock market, Lindsay for walking from Dural.
Lindsay cross fined the scribe for making him chuckle about a very serious tome on Bob’s earnest explanation of the perfidies of the club website.
There being little official business, Bob decided to deliver an impromptu clarification on the website again at our table, fortunately out of earshot of Robyn and Amida, as well as Lindsay, by declaring that one’s birthday would be henceforth fixed at 22/7/2014 unless one “went in” and corrected it. This caused an immediate look of distress from Millie, who was serving drinks at the time, as she, like most of us, are terrified to “enter” the portal. Nonetheless, we will attempt to do our duty.
Guest speaker
Harry struck up a conversation with the guest speaker across the table, discussing their amazing wow of a coincidence of having visited Wau, delivering an off the cuff observation of the embarrassing state of extreme racism there, the well-kept golf course, the bracing stroll up to 14,000 feet and the walk along a military-built road that was the most marvellous piece of engineering, military or otherwise, that he had ever seen. However, in the classic military tradition, it turned out that the Japanese attacked somewhere else and the road was never used. Just as well, as Harry reported that a large part of it finished up 1,000 feet below in a ravine.
Ian Jagelman then spoke about the interesting third hole when he also visited there, where the instructions are to give way at all times to aircraft landing or taking off, and the exciting airstrip with a 1 in 12 gradient
Intro to guests and guest speaker
PP John Donald bade Amida and Michael Waterhouse welcome.
President Tom
Getting a prostate radiotherapy himself and encountered PP Ian who was in for the same reason. Also mentioned that Noel Gladen was about and sympathy for wife Miriam who is in Carolyn Chism and unwell.
Directors
Ann mentioned that the Art show was coming up and suggested that we all kick in either some friends, a plate of sandwiches or $20.
PP Roger Wescombe told us that Neville was up and down, battling on and happy to receive visitors.
Tom welcomed back the Silinks from their visit to the United Nations and other ports of call.
Sergeant Ian
Being rather subdued, Ian decided that personal fines were the order of the day, and with no regard for station in life or personal reputations that might have needed some degree of buttressing, struck out unexpectedly, startling such luminaries as Robyn, all the birthday people, 3 “clowns”, (JP, DD, CC), Dick White who worked with DD in Fiji for CSR as 19 YOs and because the Brumbies beat the Chiefs, Frank Rule for commandeering the guest speaker, Harry for the bull run on the stock market, Lindsay for walking from Dural.
Lindsay cross fined the scribe for making him chuckle about a very serious tome on Bob’s earnest explanation of the perfidies of the club website.
There being little official business, Bob decided to deliver an impromptu clarification on the website again at our table, fortunately out of earshot of Robyn and Amida, as well as Lindsay, by declaring that one’s birthday would be henceforth fixed at 22/7/2014 unless one “went in” and corrected it. This caused an immediate look of distress from Millie, who was serving drinks at the time, as she, like most of us, are terrified to “enter” the portal. Nonetheless, we will attempt to do our duty.
Guest speaker
Harry struck up a conversation with the guest speaker across the table, discussing their amazing wow of a coincidence of having visited Wau, delivering an off the cuff observation of the embarrassing state of extreme racism there, the well-kept golf course, the bracing stroll up to 14,000 feet and the walk along a military-built road that was the most marvellous piece of engineering, military or otherwise, that he had ever seen. However, in the classic military tradition, it turned out that the Japanese attacked somewhere else and the road was never used. Just as well, as Harry reported that a large part of it finished up 1,000 feet below in a ravine.
Ian Jagelman then spoke about the interesting third hole when he also visited there, where the instructions are to give way at all times to aircraft landing or taking off, and the exciting airstrip with a 1 in 12 gradient