Has it been 2 months since my last President’s Report?

Yes, it has, but I still have no inspiration! It must be because I am now three quarters of a century old.

Since my last report your committee has done the work to keep our club going. They have all had an input and we as members can look forward to some good events over the next six months. Thanks again to all our hard-working volunteers.

It has been suggested that perhaps I should not tell a joke this month because my joke last month may have offended someone. Thank goodness I did not tell the one about the three ducks!

Which reminds me that our country seems to be obsessed with the fact that many people are offended about things that are said these days. I would like to point out that free speech is therefore under threat. It is impossible to have free speech without some people being offended. It seems you cannot even directly quote the words of our first Prime Minister Sir Edmund Barton. I am sure our founding fathers had many more brains than those who have recently drafted legislation to protect people from being offended. Not that I agree with his racial views, which I find offensive, but you cannot have freedom without free speech.

I am sure most of us will remember that at school we were taught “Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names can never hurt me”

We have lost a couple of past members in Dave Verall and Bob Burt who will be sadly missed by members of our club. The problem is that some of our members are getting older than most of the cars in our club. You can rebuild a hundred-year-old car to almost the same condition as new, but not a human being!

I can assure you all that I will not talk politics again next time so I will say sorry now before it hits the fan. The one of many advantages I have found in being President is that you can write what you want. Maybe some members will tell Yvonne to edit my words before printing.

See you at our next meeting and events, especially our Christmas lunch at Palmer next month on the fourteenth.

President

Brian Rainey