Knighthoods bestoweth

 Today Megan and I joined a whole pile of people (see below) and with appropriate pomp and circumstance were bestoweth with an Australia Day "Community Service Award".

I guess that makes us Lord and Lady and you can fallow Baldricks lead in greeting us appropriately from now on. 

I was thinking of taking a cardboard crown and cardboard sword to assist in the conferring of honours but upon hearing that none of the queens would be in attendance (Elizabeth, Julia, Anna or Graham) I decided to just attend in civvies.

 I will be executing my knightly duties with diligence and honour.  Some simple political reforms like sending most of the city based members of the health department to g work in the hospitals.  Likewise city based members of the education department will be sentenced to full time in a classroom.   Like wise we will reduce our jail population by setting up stocks in King George Square and selling tomatoes.

 Some of our compardres.
Amongst the group was a Taiwanese person of some note supported by a group of Taiwanese all dressed in bright pink tee shirts.  At the start of proceedings, we were all a bit bored and they were taking photos of themselves as you do so the Thomson's started bobbing up and down behind them.  They had brought a Taiwanese TV cameraman with them and this caused him to get his camera rolling.  We had noticed channel 9 at a nearby belly flop competition and figured for Australian's, that was more important that the conferring of honours.  But I think we may have made our mark in Taiwan.

Here we are with Nicole Johnston (top Left).  She is our local councillor.  Originally of liberal persuasion but evicted by Campbell Newman after a disagreement over a bus parking area at Sherwood and subsequently, from what I can see, subjected to a campaign of bullying and termiting by both sides of politics.

In the bottom row we have Una Drummon (Left) and Heather Griffin (Right).  Una has been involved in our church since before Christ was born.  Among other things, she still plays the organ and at a reasonable speed too.  Actually she was the person who introduced the decent tune for "O Jesus I have promised".  Don't use the one in AHB or TIS.  Use the tune from a book called twentieth century hymn tunes.  Heather is our minister although we are in caretaker mode because she is disappearing off to Esk.  Where she can minister to the Kransky sisters and other inbreds.

The Sherwood UC support crew.