First of All…
The Blog is back in action! I took a few weeks off over Christmas and lost my stride. The lack of Sunday afternoon football (the usual time I write the blog) has also impeded the return of the blog. I’m back on the job now and should be fined heavily at meetings for missing postings. Unfortunately I’m already expecting a heavy cross-fine from Nev for Parra’s loss to the Dragons on Friday.

Also, could everybody note that Anthony J’s email address is not anthony.johnston@optusnet.com or anthony.johnston@optusnet.com.au

March dates of note…
Arthur had a birthday on the 15th
Nev has a birthday on the 24th while his wife Jo has a birthday on the 19th
Steve’s wife Lisa has a birthday on the 20th
Anthony and Bronwyn have a wedding anniversary on the 20th

Last week’s meeting (March 9th)
We were a bit out of sorts last week as we were short our president, who’s touring NZ with his clan, and our sergeant who was also an apology. A missing president and sergeant didn’t put Alan B off his H&T game though.

Greg had received a request from a lady needing help with loading boxes from a child care centre into a truck. I’m a bit foggy on the club’s history with this person but the advice from the senior members was to “Just say no”. We also heard from Rob B regarding the schedule of arranging guest speakers (below).

Anthony also had… well… a bunch of mail. If you want more details on exactly what’s being received you can talk to Anthony but it was all pretty generic stuff. One bit of mail was from the Bathurst Eisteddfod Society about our sponsoring a scholarship. Anthony was advised to reply that we have every intention of continuing our sponsorship of an annual scholarship.

Peter C gave us a rather odd fine session, not issuing a single fine but still managing to clear us out of our cash! I’m still not quite sure how I came out $7 down…

Without a guest speaker a round-table discussion of Bathurst restaurants opened up. The big winner came from Anthony’s experience was the Chicane. Also highly recommended was the Beekeeper on the way out to Orange.

This week’s meeting
Tim has emailed me (or should I say SUE emailed me) about his guest speaker next week. Mrs Elizabeth Randall will speak on music education, teaching and learning in the 21st century.

In the coming weeks…
March 16 – Guest Speaker: Tim; VoT: Bob; Welcome: Steve E
March 23 – Guest Speaker: Andrew C (Outlook for Dummies); VoT: Peter F
March 30 – Guest Speaker: David N (VoT: Danielle; Welcome: Chris B)
April 6 - Guest Speaker: David W; VoT: Anthony J; Welcome: Greg
April 13 – Guest Speaker: Alan B; VoT: Steve E; Welcome: Karl
April 20 – Guest Speaker: Frank S; VoT: Peter F; Welcome: Peter C
April 27 – Guest Speaker: David S; VoT: Chris B; Welcome: Sally
May 2 – David W (Half Marathon)
May 2 – Bob P (Gold Tournament)
May 4 – Guest Speaker: Nev D; VoT: Peter C; Welcome: Tim
May 11 – Guest Speaker: Danielle; VoT: Sally; Welcome: David N
May 18 – Guest Speaker: Anthony J; VoT: Andrew C; Welcome: David W
May 25 – Guest Speaker: Steve E; VoT: Tim; Welcome: Eric
June 1 – Guest Speaker: Peter F; VoT: David N; Welcome: Frank
June 8 – Guest Speaker: Chris B; VoT: David W; Welcome: David S
June 15 – Guest Speaker: Greg S; VoT: Eric D; Welcome: Nev
June 22 – Guest Speaker: Karl M; VoT: Frank S; Welcome: Danielle
June 29 – Adam S / Peter C