Since my last report we have had meetings regarding our venue and a couple of well attended events. Thanks to Liz, Claude, Brenda and Jan for organising the Pizza night in February. Great evening with a good turnout of members and too many visitors being the white birds with the same name as certain people who are in Canberra. March saw a great day at Bowhill looking over the engineering plant followed by lunch. Over 40 members attended.  Thanks to Graham for the months spent organising the day. (refer to run reports in this issue) 

I am disappointed that I cannot give you details of our new venue as this has not been finalised. I hope to bring you all up to date at our next meeting. For some reason this has proceeded at a slower pace than some of our older vehicles. However, things look promising, and I will be glad to get away from our dusty car park.

My Daughter and 4-year-old grandson survived the short sea cruise last month. I couldn’t get over how many girls he chattered up. He asked a couple to his cabin, one to his house and a couple to the swimming pool. He would strike up a conversation with girls of any age from toddlers to grandmothers. He was still up late at night, dancing around the pool deck. I had to have a nap in the afternoon whilst he was at the pool. He is off to England to see his other grandfather next week so I will have three weeks rest.

Now for a little joke.

At a dinner for the Greens in Canberra last month, Adam Bandt’s wife leaned over to Sara Hanson-Young and told her that she had bought a Parrot for Adam’s birthday. She told her that the bird was so smart as Adam had taught him to say over a dozen full sentences. Sara told her that it was very impressive and said, “But you realize that he just speaks the words, and he doesn’t really understand what they all mean.” Mrs Bandt said, “I know but neither does the parrot”.

See you all at our next meeting on the first of April. Do not forget that April fools’ day only applies until 12 noon.  After that the person playing the prank is the fool.

Brian Rainey