YAF reunion

Move to 1 Feb 2018

Rob Davidson

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YAF reunion

YAF reunion.
Organised by Leanne Hutton & Megan in the Sherwood UC Hall.

Craig Mitchell
"And last night was the YAF Reunion (QLD Synod monthly youth rally). Wonderful to see a bunch of former comrades and also "I have no idea who you are..." Thanks to the Modern Poets. Always great IMHO. We gave them such a fine stage and lighting setup. Plus a photo of Leanne Hutton taking a photo of herself from 30 years ago on video. [It could have been me doing the same.] And Lew and Betty Born came too!"

PJ & Leanne Hutton
Kerry Gear (Tony in HK)
Kyle, Junita & kids.
Tony & Jenny Pitman.
Dave Floyd
Melissa Taylor.
Steve Molkinton
Steve Pinnel.
Lew Borne
Craig Mitchell
Andrew
Neale
Glynn
Roz

Neale Brought some great tech memories in the form of a museum.
BWE mixer & DI boxes
Com box
Stage box

BGS Rowing 2018 BBC Regatta

Race 21

Final:

Schoolboys Year 11 Eight Division 2

Place	Crew	Lane				2000M	Margins
1st	THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL	9				6:29.78		0.00
2nd	ACGS	6				6:39.12	9.34	+9.34
3rd	BRISBANE BOYS	7				6:50.99	11.87	+21.21
4th	NUDGEE	5				6:55.32	4.33	+25.54
5th	BRISBANE GRAMMAR	8				6:58.14	2.82	+28.36
6th	GREGORY TERRACE 2	10				7:01.30	3.16	+31.52

State Rowing Championships

I was not able to be at the 2018 State Rowing Championships held over the weekend of 20 & 21 Jan 2018.

Jemma, Chris and Chris' girlfriend Lilee all participated.

Jemma got a first in the women's U15 quad and Chris got a first in the Toowong eight.  Proud dad here.  I was not able to be there because I was at the BGS rowing camp.

Jemma

Here is a link to what Jemma achieved at Club States: 

http://m.qld.rowingmanager.com/?mobile;cmd=athlete_results;regatta=3900;mid=109279

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1000m:

4th in womens U15 Single Scull

4th in Womens U15 Double Scull

6th in Womens G4 Double Scull

1st in Womens U15 Quad Scull

2000m:

3rd Coxing Womens U17 Quad Scull

Chris

Championship Mens Under 21 Eight - 1st
Championship Mens Four (Coxless) - 4th
Championship Mens Under 21 Pair- 7th
Championship Mens Under 21 Four (Coxless) - 2nd
Championship Mens Group 2 Quad Scull - 1st

Travel Insurance

Renewing the travel insurance.
See also http://thomsoneu.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/travel-insurance.html
TUH is still a much better deal than going direct to the QBE web site.

2 Adults and 2 children
TUH QBE =                                    $522.80
QBE direct from the QBE web site $752.90
World wide exclude USA.  Neither with any extras or snow sport cover.
And for those who cant be bothered calculating, that's a whopping  $230.10 cheaper via TUH.

Liverpool Anfield

31 Dec 2017

Dan and I went to Anfield stadium and watched Liverpool play Leicester.

Planning had started a couple of months ago back in Brisbane. The first challenge was to actually buy tickets. The Liverpool web site had pages titled "how to buy tickets" that said a lot and lead nowhere. In the end I phoned them to be told "the only way to buy tickets is to become members or buy a hospitality pack". The hospitality packs were insanely expensive and included a meal. Upwards of $AU1000. The membership option dried up and that just left the thriving black market. There are numerous web sites proporting to sell tickets. I went with a mob called "Stubhub" because they appeared to be a subsidiary of eBay and they had a real person in Oz that phoned me. In the UK, I received an email advising of a pickup and return address for the contraband along with a mobile phone number. This turned out to be a pub and after signing for the tickets and promising to bring them back, I asked about drinks. The fellow said sure they are free. Help your self to some packets of nuts to take to the game. These guys are on a winner. I suspect they have bought dozens of season tickets and just scalp them at vastly inflated prices to people like me and when we sat down in the stand, it seemed all around us were from elsewhere on dodgy tickets. The guys directly in front were from the Netherlands for example.

The game started. It was red v blue. 

The Blue guys were running around with the ball and the red guys were scratching their heads and elsewhere. The Blue guys thought OK let's have a short break so they put the ball in the little white net thing which is where you put it when you want a break.

A small rectangular group of spectators rose to their feet and cheered mightily and then turned to us and advised us on certain sexual practices.

Now it was the red guys turn to play with the ball. The ref ensured that by letting them start.

I was glad of that because it was now clear that I was supposed to be excited and cheering for the red guys and if the ref didn't give them the ball then I couldn't see how they were ever going to get their turn. 

The red guys ran around for a long time with the ball. They brought it down to our end which made for much better viewing. Whenever they got close we all stood up then advised the blue supporters to check their sexuality and then sat down again with a collective groan.

Several times they wanted a break and put it in the little white net but the man on the side put up his flag and the blue goalie had to kick it back to them.

52 minutes into the game and the ball went into the net and stayed there. We were all very excited and sang songs and really advised the Blue supporters on all topics.

The ref though had to give the blue guys their next turn with the ball but the red guys soon took it back.

They played around with it until the 76th minute when they decided to put it in the net again.

The Red guys ahead 2:1 then changed tactics. Instead of focusing on the goal they thought about the clock and obviously had not practiced time wasting as the blue guys kept taking the ball back and we had to engage in some corporate groans and head shaking.

Finally after a further 3 minutes of extra time we all cheered and went home