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====No.243 February, 1955 Price 6d.==== | ====No.243 February, 1955 Price 6d.==== | ||
- | |**Co-Editors**|Dot Butler, Boundary Road, Wahroonga (JW2208). Geof Wagg, 19 Mary Street, Blacktown| | + | |**Co-Editors**|Dot Butler, Boundary Road, Wahroonga (JW2208). Geof Wagg, 19 Mary Street, Blacktown.| |
|**Business Manager**|Alex Colley (XAl255)| | |**Business Manager**|Alex Colley (XAl255)| | ||
|**Sales & Subscriptions**|Jess Martin| | |**Sales & Subscriptions**|Jess Martin| | ||
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Starters for Cowan Creek trip on 13th February are asked to advise leader - Brian Harvey immediately. JW1462. BU1611. | Starters for Cowan Creek trip on 13th February are asked to advise leader - Brian Harvey immediately. JW1462. BU1611. | ||
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=====Those Were The Days.===== | =====Those Were The Days.===== | ||
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- "The Gent in the Tent". | - "The Gent in the Tent". | ||
- | In a small book entitled " | + | In a small book entitled " |
- | "About 4 years ago the whole Commonwealth was seized with the craze; young ard old indulged in this " | + | |
- | 0 dast wonder", | + | "About 4 years ago the whole Commonwealth was seized with the craze; young ard old indulged in this " |
- | 0 | + | |
- | 6. | + | "The craze eventually died out to some extent, and there were those to whom walking completely faded out of their interest and activities. Another section (although not worthy of the distinction of "all weather walkers" |
- | recreation for all time. Their motto is Tparently | + | |
- | " | + | " |
- | Many of the above remarks still apply 18 years later. The book goes on to describe various walks in the Manly-Palm Beach area such as:- Brookvale - Beacon Hill - Oxford Falls - Middle Creek - Narrabeen and The Spit - Dalwood Homes - Burnt Bridge Creek - Manly Vale - Brookvale, which are not now available to us owing to the rapid housing development in these areas or to the construction of express motor roads near the routes of the old tracks. However, the Western | + | |
- | The earliest | + | Many of the above remarks still apply 18 years later. The book goes on to describe various walks in the Manly-Palm Beach area such as:- Brookvale - Beacon Hill - Oxford Falls - Middle Creek - Narrabeen and The Spit - Dalwood Homes - Burnt Bridge Creek - Manly Vale - Brookvale, which are not now available to us owing to the rapid housing development in these areas or to the construction of express motor roads near the routes of the old tracks. However, the Western |
- | "Some of our friends did not want us to write it. They said you were vandals, who would litter the bush with your papers and scraps, cut down trees and start bush-fires. We are sure they are wrong. | + | |
- | From another book entitled | + | The earliest |
- | "Blue Gum Forest Appeal. Out in the depths of the Grose Valley is a beautiful Blue Gum Forest, which is being reServed | + | |
- | "Bush lovers who know the spot were deeply concerned. A commilitc=c | + | "Some of our friends did not want us to write it. They said you were vandals, who would litter the bush with your papers and scraps, cut down trees and start bush-fires. We are sure they are wrong. |
- | " | + | |
- | it is the desire of Tha Sydney Bushwalkers and the Mountain Trails Club to give the 80 back to the person whose generosity prevented the land from being lost to the People, and they appeal to all who claim to be the faintest bit interested in the bush to contribute to the fund being raised for that purpose." | + | From another book entitled |
- | The article goes on to suggest a " | + | |
- | Finegrain | + | "Blue Gum Forest Appeal. Out in the depths of the Grose Valley is a beautiful Blue Gum Forest, which is being reserved |
- | Developing | + | |
- | deserve the | + | "Bush lovers who know the spot were deeply concerned. A committee |
- | best SERVICE | + | |
- | Perfect | + | " |
- | Enlargements | + | |
- | PHOTOGRAPHY 1 ? I ? I | + | " |
- | You press the button, wefll do the rest t | + | |
- | LEICA PHOTO SERVICE | + | The article goes on to suggest a " |
- | 31 Macquarie Place | + | |
- | SYDNEY N.S.V. | + | Quoting again from this volume: |
- | 7. | + | |
- | Your | + | "Of late years hiking has become an increasingly |
- | Rolifilms | + | |
- | or | + | An advertisement in the same publication is set out thus: |
- | Leica films | + | |
- | 8. | + | Palmer' |
- | list of persons to whom donations may be sent is also given. It will be obvious from both of the above quotations, what an effort must hav been put forward to secure Blue Gum Forest, especially when we rememb | + | |
- | Project, the like of which had not been heard before, and we consider the value of 130 in those days (about | + | Amongst the walks suggested are: |
- | Quoting again from this volume | + | |
- | "Of late years hiking has become an increasingly | + | |
- | An advertisement in the same publication is net out thus : | + | |
- | PALIVERfS CONLIVIUNITY HIKING- ASSOCIATION. | + | |
- | JOIN NOW! - JOIN NOW! _ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION | + | |
- | Amongst the walks suggested are | + | |
Bundeena - Flat Rock - Audley, and Waterfall - Lady Carrington Drive - Audley | Bundeena - Flat Rock - Audley, and Waterfall - Lady Carrington Drive - Audley | ||
- | which are no longer available owing to heavy weekend motor traffic oh the roads which have since been reconstructed. However, such walks as | + | |
- | Waterfall - Uloola Falls- Heathcote, or | + | which are no longer available owing to heavy weekend motor traffic oh the roads which have since been reconstructed. However, such walks as Waterfall - Uloola Falls- Heathcote, or Katoomba |
- | Katoomba | + | |
- | There is an advertisement for " | + | There is an advertisement for " |
- | In 1933, in an effort to stimulate business, the Department of Railways published two maps with for about 30 day walks in each. The first took in an area between Sutherland and Stanwell Park Stations, and the cover is illustrated by a pictu: | + | |
- | a | + | In 1933, in an effort to stimulate business, the Department of Railways published two maps with for about 30 day walks in each. The first took in an area between Sutherland and Stanwell Park Stations, and the cover is illustrated by a picture |
- | 9. | + | |
- | Station. I am often reminded of this picture | + | One more apt quotation: |
- | One more apt quotation | + | |
"We ask you one thing. Remember these places are sanctified. Let your reverence for them stay your hand from marring them. Guard them jealously, so that their loveliness will be kept unsullied for the generations to come. For they are for all eternity." | "We ask you one thing. Remember these places are sanctified. Let your reverence for them stay your hand from marring them. Guard them jealously, so that their loveliness will be kept unsullied for the generations to come. For they are for all eternity." | ||
- | WHEN THE SUN DOESN'T SHINE. | + | |
+ | =====When The Sun Doesn't Shine.===== | ||
- Jim Brown. | - Jim Brown. | ||
- | A popular song of perhaps 15 years ago contained the happy thought, make hay while the sun shines, we Y11 make love when it rains" | + | |
- | At the end of September | + | A popular song of perhaps 15 years ago contained the happy thought, |
+ | |||
+ | At the end of September | ||
Up to the Wednesday preceding the trip, it looked as though it might be cancelled for lack of starters, then Alex Colley decided he would definitely like to walk the connecting link between the two trips aforementioned. It says much for Alex's imperviousness to scrubby going that he was game to venture it again. On the Thursday came another starter in prospective Ted Smith. | Up to the Wednesday preceding the trip, it looked as though it might be cancelled for lack of starters, then Alex Colley decided he would definitely like to walk the connecting link between the two trips aforementioned. It says much for Alex's imperviousness to scrubby going that he was game to venture it again. On the Thursday came another starter in prospective Ted Smith. | ||
- | - Walking out from Hazlebrook on a mild Friday evening,- we camped at about 10 o' | + | |
- | 10. | + | Walking out from Hazlebrook on a mild Friday evening, we camped at about 10 o' |
- | mountain towns scattered along the ridge. Around the trig fine pink boronias dotted the rocky top. | + | |
- | A little after 8 o' | + | A little after 8 o' |
- | After I had been persuaded that all was well we persevered through several more dense saddles and up on to the knolls, which wel. sufficiently open to allow us to look down into the cliffy defile of Wentworth Creek. The sky was darker, some grey cloud clung about the summit of Mt. Hay. It was 12.40 when we came to the pre-selected | + | |
- | A very shallow overhang with half a dozen large boulders for a floor provided us with shelter during lunch, and the rain continued. The steep hill across the creek didn't look attractive, but we were virtually at the point of no return. We'd come some seven miles along the ridge, five of 'em through scrub worse than Ild ever met in the Labyrinth: to the end of the track beyond Mt. Hay was only another six miles or so. Bush-pushing was going to be rather evil ir rain, but surely the miles before us couldn' | + | After I had been persuaded that all was well we persevered through several more dense saddles and up on to the knolls, which were sufficiently open to allow us to look down into the cliffy defile of Wentworth Creek. The sky was darker, some grey cloud clung about the summit of Mt. Hay. It was 12.40 when we came to the pre-selected |
- | Leaving the doubtful shelter of our overhang at 2.309 we started the crawl up the dripping slope opposite. I question if the term "slope fairly applies to something so nearly vertical, and I believe I would have spent the rest of the afternoon creeping along the ledges if Alex hadn't aided me in a couple of the stickiest places. A wet ground-sheet which persistently dragged its Press- studs apart as one wrestled through wet brush wasn't helpful. After we'd climbed 500 feet the gradient eased to 45-degrees, the vegetatioL | + | |
- | quite,miraculously we broke into a patch of open heathy scrub, with reedy grasses and flat weathered slabs of sandstone underfoot. There were literally thousands of sun orchids there, but in the absence of the sun they had their blue eyes firmly closed to our sufferings. For five minutes or so we could actually stride along in the drizzle, with a view out over a great stretch of weeping country, lonely, broken gorges. Then we were back in the scrub agai | + | A very shallow overhang with half a dozen large boulders for a floor provided us with shelter during lunch, and the rain continued. The steep hill across the creek didn't look attractive, but we were virtually at the point of no return. We'd come some seven miles along the ridge, five of 'em through scrub worse than I' |
- | 0 | + | |
- | 11. | + | Leaving the doubtful shelter of our overhang at 2.30, we started the crawl up the dripping slope opposite. I question if the term "slope" |
- | 1 | + | |
- | IMPORTANT TRANSPORT NOTICE. | + | Quite miraculously we broke into a patch of open heathy scrub, with reedy grasses and flat weathered slabs of sandstone underfoot. There were literally thousands of sun orchids there, but in the absence of the sun they had their blue eyes firmly closed to our sufferings. For five minutes or so we could actually stride along in the drizzle, with a view out over a great stretch of weeping country, lonely, broken gorges. Then we were back in the scrub again not quite as dense as before. Once we were off our ridge for a few minutes and, as we corrected our coarse, we noted it was past five o' |
- | BUS HWALKERS REQUIRING TRANSPOR FROM BLACKHEATH | + | |
- | SIEDLECKYIS TAXI AND TOURIST SERVICE, | + | Soon after 7.30 the rain resumed its tapping on the tent, so we hastily turned in. We were about half a mile from the north end of the plateau formation which appears on the map three miles east from Mt. Hay, and only a mile or so short of the anticipated spot for the night' |
- | 116 STATION STREET BLACKHEATH. | + | |
- | 2 4 HOUR SERVIC E. | + | |
- | BUSHWALKERS arriving at Blackheath late at night without transport booking can ring for car from Railway Station or call at above address -- IT'S NEVER TOO LATE.' | + | |
- | 'PHONE BTHEATH 81 or 146. LOOK FOR CARS 3210 or TV270. OR BOOK AT MARK SALON RADIO SHOP - OPP. STATION. | + | |
- | not quite as dense as before. Once we were off our ridge for a few | + | |
- | minutes and, as we corrected our coarse, we noted"it was past five | + | |
- | otclook | + | |
- | Soon after 7.30 the rain resumed its tapping on the tent, so we hastily turned in. We were about half a mile from the north end of the plateau formation which appears on the nap three miles east from Mt. Hay, and only a mile or so short of the anticipated spot for the | + | |
- | o night' | + | |
- | O Pegs were not very secure in the damp sand. | + | |
We were off again at 7.30 an Sunday. There had been no rain for several hours and the scrub was reasonably dry where the wind could reach it, but in the saddles and thicker patches, water clung heavily to the foliage. A few minutes brought us to the north end of the plateau, looking across to the yellow cliffs of Mt. Caley, with the Grose River gorge very deep and sombre under the overcast sky. | We were off again at 7.30 an Sunday. There had been no rain for several hours and the scrub was reasonably dry where the wind could reach it, but in the saddles and thicker patches, water clung heavily to the foliage. A few minutes brought us to the north end of the plateau, looking across to the yellow cliffs of Mt. Caley, with the Grose River gorge very deep and sombre under the overcast sky. | ||
- | 12. | + | |
- | Down off the plateau into the first saddle. Since it wasn't actually raining, we had left off our groundsheets for greater freedom of movement, and in twenty minutes we were thoroughly soaked again. The scrub was as bad as we had struck the day before, and we had only occasional glimpses of the way ahead from higher. points. Shortly before nine o' | + | Down off the plateau into the first saddle. Since it wasn't actually raining, we had left off our groundsheets for greater freedom of movement, and in twenty minutes we were thoroughly soaked again. The scrub was as bad as we had struck the day before, and we had only occasional glimpses of the way ahead from higher. points. Shortly before nine o' |
- | There was Hay, sitting square and huge before us, not much more than a mile distant. We sat down for a breather very close to the point where Parties | + | |
- | We were on the mountain at 11.15, lunched in the saddle | + | There was Hay, sitting square and huge before us, not much more than a mile distant. We sat down for a breather very close to the point where parties |
- | Looking back on it, we're glad we were only three. Given very favourable weather - fine and cool - it would have been a difficult trip for a large party. In the unkind conditions we met, I believe | + | |
- | a large party would have been home on Monday. Maybe I exaggerate | + | We were on the mountain at 11.15, lunched in the saddle |
- | ALPINE ADVENTURE. | + | |
+ | Looking back on it, we're glad we were only three. Given very favourable weather - fine and cool - it would have been a difficult trip for a large party. In the unkind conditions we met, I believe a large party would have been home on Monday. Maybe I exaggerate | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Alpine Adventure.===== | ||
- Dot Butler. | - Dot Butler. | ||
- | We had been five weeks in New Zealand, covering the lakes and valleys and mountain | + | |
- | 13. | + | We had been five weeks in New Zealand, covering the lakes and valleys and mountain |
- | soon settled in comfortably for the night. | + | |
- | Leaving the Hermitage | + | Leaving the Hermitage |
- | We waited at the Ball Hut till the cool about 4 p.m. we struggled into our packs and Glacier 6 miles to De la Beche Hut. It took the 6 miles', over icehummocks | + | |
- | . | + | We waited at the Ball Hut till the cool of the afternoon, then about 4 p.m. we struggled into our packs and set off up the Tasman |
- | We reached the hut about 7.30. Here we and weighed our packs and impedimenta. Mine both the boys had over 100 lbs. | + | |
- | We had made plans to climb the Hochstetter Dom (9,179 feet), which is the great mound of snow lying at the head of the Tasman Glacier. This would necessitate an early rising of 3 a.m. on the morrow, but it was going on for 11 p.m. when we finally retired and we didn't wake up till 4.45 a.m. when the glow in the sky, which should have been the moon but was annually the sun, awoke Gordon. He and Bert had slept outside among the boulders, it being reputed to be cooler outside, while I enjoyed the comfort of a bunk inside, but | + | We reached the hut about 7.30. Here we found a spring scale and weighed our packs and impedimenta. Mine was a mere 53 lbs., but both the boys had over 100 lbs. |
- | was soon rudely awakened and mechanically struggled into my clothes and pulled on the hobnailed:boots, the while we consumed lukewarm porridge, slightly overdone,.in the murky light of a candle while dawn endeavoured to break outside. | + | |
- | One of the hardest parts of Mountaineering | + | We had made plans to climb the Hochstetter Dom (9,179 feet), which is the great mound of snow lying at the head of the Tasman Glacier. This would necessitate an early rising of 3 a.m. on the morrow, but it was going on for 11 p.m. when we finally retired and we didn't wake up till 4.45 a.m. when the glow in the sky, which should have been the moon but was annually the sun, awoke Gordon. He and Bert had slept outside among the boulders, it being reputed to be cooler outside, while I enjoyed the comfort of a bunk inside, but I was soon rudely awakened and mechanically struggled into my clothes and pulled on the hobnailed boots, the while we consumed lukewarm porridge, slightly overdone, in the murky light of a candle while dawn endeavoured to break outside. |
- | We were ready to set out by 5.55 a.m. It was now quite light. We followed | + | |
- | The glacier now gave way to vast undulating | + | One of the hardest parts of mountaineering |
- | found a spring scale was a mere 53 lbs., but | + | |
- | 14. | + | We were ready to set out by 5.55 a.m. It was now quite light. We followed |
- | light. As we gained the higher levels the crevasses decreased in number but increased in width, some of them being over 50 feet wide and deep in proportion. They are fascinatingly beautiful. | + | |
- | There were no great hazards to try our skill on this climb, | + | The glacier now gave way to vast undulating |
- | Bert and Gordon now prepared for a good meal, about the fourth since breakfast, and it was hardly yet midday. I felt that I was noi yet in need of nourishment, | + | |
- | It was further. than I thought to the level of the glacier, and when I had filled the bottle, and myself, with ice water I looked back to where the boys were still eating - mere little black dots on a great expanse of white. | + | There were no great hazards to try our skill on this climb, |
- | It was quite hot walking, but one soon became chilly with inacti, so I decided to continue on m3i. way down the glacier and the boys would catch up later. The sun had been shining fiercely on the snow all the morning and in consequence quite a lot of it had melted and was running in cheerful gurgling little channels down all the cracks in the glacier. The surface snow too, in contrast to its morning hardness, was now quite soft and yielding, and many times I broke through the surface into the water below, but it wasn't very deep and as I only wet my boots and socks I didn't mind much, it was such a pleasure to see the happy little runnels of water all rushing and leaping along their separate ways in an intricate network, pouring | + | |
+ | Bert and Gordon now prepared for a good meal, about the fourth since breakfast, and it was hardly yet midday. I felt that I was not yet in need of nourishment, | ||
+ | |||
+ | It was further than I thought to the level of the glacier, and when I had filled the bottle, and myself, with ice water I looked back to where the boys were still eating - mere little black dots on a great expanse of white. | ||
+ | |||
+ | It was quite hot walking, but one soon became chilly with inactivity, so I decided to continue on my way down the glacier and the boys would catch up later. The sun had been shining fiercely on the snow all the morning and in consequence quite a lot of it had melted and was running in cheerful gurgling little channels down all the cracks in the glacier. The surface snow too, in contrast to its morning hardness, was now quite soft and yielding, and many times I broke through the surface into the water below, but it wasn't very deep and as I only wet my boots and socks I didn't mind much, it was such a pleasure to see the happy little runnels of water all rushing and leaping along their separate ways in an intricate network, pouring | ||
I followed the hurrying water fascinated, not conscious of the significance that the crevasses were becoming deeper and more frequent, and that the water now rumbled on with an ominous hollow boom. | I followed the hurrying water fascinated, not conscious of the significance that the crevasses were becoming deeper and more frequent, and that the water now rumbled on with an ominous hollow boom. | ||
- | Suddenly, without warning, the great torrenf, | + | |
- | 15. | + | Suddenly, without warning, the great torrent |
- | Iliad glanced back some time ago and noticed that they had finished their lunch and followed down to the glacier where they had been less than half a mile behind me, but now my straining eyes could see no sign of them on that wide white sea of ice hummocks. They mus be there. They couldn' | + | |
- | 0 | + | I had glanced back some time ago and noticed that they had finished their lunch and followed down to the glacier where they had been less than half a mile behind me, but now my straining eyes could see no sign of them on that wide white sea of ice hummocks. They __must__ |
- | 0 | + | |
- | "I must go back and look for them" I thought while my eyes still feverishly sought the glacier in vain for some movement. I called again and again but no voce answered my shouts from the expanse of desolate white, only the ice cracked and shattered and splintered, and the water sucked and gurgled away into the bottomless depths with the noise like a drowning man. | + | "I must go back and look for them" I thought while my eyes still feverishly sought the glacier in vain for some movement. I called again and again but no voice answered my shouts from the expanse of desolate white, only the ice cracked and shattered and splintered, and the water sucked and gurgled away into the bottomless depths with the noise like a drowning man. |
- | I was about to step into a slight depression where the water was running only a few inches deep, when suddenly the sides and floor caved in, the water disappeared with a quiet whispery sigh, and in deathly silence a deep bottomless chasm yawned at my feet. I jumped like a scalded cat. My heart seemed to be beating suffocatingly in my throat and I set off in a wild uncontrolled run for the side of the glacier. What did it matter if I was thus exposing myself to the dangers of falling avalanches! What did it matter if the going was much more difficult and chopped up at the sides: Anything to be off this treacherous accursed glacier! - it was only a shell of hummoel, | + | |
- | I reached the lateral moraine trembling and panting. "Hi, there" called Bert " | + | I was about to step into a slight depression where the water was running only a few inches deep, when suddenly the sides and floor caved in, the water disappeared with a quiet whispery sigh, and in deathly silence a deep bottomless chasm yawned at my feet. I jumped like a scalded cat. My heart seemed to be beating suffocatingly in my throat and I set off in a wild uncontrolled run for the side of the glacier. What did it matter if I was thus exposing myself to the dangers of falling avalanches! What did it matter if the going was much more difficult and chopped up at the sides! Anything to be off this treacherous accursed glacier! - it was only a shell of hummocky |
- | FEDERATION NOTES - JANUARY. | + | |
+ | I reached the lateral moraine trembling and panting. "Hi, there" called Bert " | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Federation Notes - January.===== | ||
- Allen A. Strom. | - Allen A. Strom. | ||
- | the death of | + | |
- | a walking tour the dead | + | |
- | A report was received on the accident leading to Bob Thomas, President of The Kameruka Club, Whilst an in Tasmania. Delegates stood. as a mark of respect to bushwalker. | + | A report was received on the accident leading to the death of Bob Thomas, President of The Kameruka Club, whilst on a walking tour in Tasmania. Delegates stood as a mark of respect to the dead bushwalker. |
- | 16. | + | |
- | The Austrian Foreign Trade Representative in Australia, | + | The Austrian Foreign Trade Representative in Australia, Dr. W. Brauneis, 537 New South Head Road, Double Bay, has some first class 16mm sound films on skiing, mountaineering and rock climbing |
- | Dr. W. Brauneis, 537 New South Head Road, Double Bay, has some first class 16mm sound films on skiing, mountaineering and rock climbing | + | |
- | TANK AT COURIDJAN STATION: The Railway Department has indicated | + | ====Tank At Couridjah Station:==== |
- | It was reported to Federation that the Proprietor of Barrington | + | |
- | Mr. John Cotter was elected | + | The Railway Department has indicated |
- | caused by the resignation of-MFT-riongr-Freming. | + | |
- | THE iliEDERATION RE-UNION is due to talm place on the weekend March | + | It was reported to Federation that the Proprietor of Barrington |
- | 7OTE7- | + | |
- | ftermtwoonak.v.x.mmampsomams...armaimaai | + | Mr. John Cotter was elected |
- | rillE PALLIN FAREWELL PARTY. | + | |
- | More than 120 S:B.W's turned up at the Harvey' | + | ====The Federation Re-union: |
- | Sydney' | + | |
- | tents faced towards the campfire, blazing merrily away shpltered | + | is due to take place on the weekend March 26/ |
- | sheets of corrugated iron. Several arc lamps lit up the stage" area and the gum trees in the banground. | + | |
- | Everyone greeted everyone as, with groundsheets and sleeping | + | =====The Pallin Farewell Party.===== |
- | enteAaintent ensucyl, Malcolm' | + | |
- | Jim Brown, as President; gave a very moving and sincere speech of Farewell to Paddy and May, then May cut the large iced cake and everyone (we hope) got a bit. Supper, prepared by Jean and her | + | More than 120 S.B.W's turned up at the Harvey' |
- | visitor, Margaret, Jess, Grace and Yvonne was served under canvas to the accompaniment of a really heavy downpour, which made the hot tea and savouries | + | Sydney' |
- | 17. | + | |
- | HARD CHEDDAR | + | Everyone greeted everyone as, with groundsheets and sleeping |
- | . | + | |
+ | Jim Brown, as President, gave a very moving and sincere speech of Farewell to Paddy and May, then May cut the large iced cake and everyone (we hope) got a bit. Supper, prepared by Jean and her visitor, Margaret, Jess, Grace and Yvonne was served under canvas to the accompaniment of a really heavy downpour, which made the hot tea and savouries | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Hard Cheddar.===== | ||
" | " | ||
- | This is the time of year when the Crown-Street Composers enter their sanctum, put their heads together, and find that they haven' | + | |
- | It's a nerve-wrecking time for sensitive souls, such as we four all are. Why last, | + | This is the time of year when the Crown Street Composers enter their sanctum, put their heads together, and find that they haven' |
- | If you compose your own tunes, bright and gay, you must be prepared to have them put over like a Gregorian chant, and have the accent | + | |
- | Don't for a moment imagine that I' | + | It's a nerve-wrecking time for sensitive souls, such as we four all are. Why last year we had to forcibly restrain G.W. with a piece of four by two (hardwood) - all because we put his Finale at the end of the opera, instead of nearer the beginning, |
- | Exhausted of ideas, you sit and ponder on a theme, | + | |
- | You scribble down a lot of notes, you 'fill about a ream, Your mind is in a tp_rmoil | + | If you compose your own tunes, bright and gay, you must be prepared to have them put over like a Gregorian chant, and have the accent |
- | And then you think 'Should this be sung or rendered as a mime" | + | |
- | You know the tunes you put to them are pretty good but that The singers will soon change them - at the dropping | + | Don't for a moment imagine that I' |
- | know | + | |
- | That they cculdn't sing in tune, much less find a semi-tone, And the overall effect is like the Dying Stockman' | + | Exhausted of ideas, you sit and ponder on a theme,\\ |
- | At last you get inspired and you write a bit of verse, They' | + | You scribble down a lot of notes, you fill about a ream,\\ |
- | And hrend' | + | Your mind is in a turmoil |
- | But I guess I should be patient, philosophical let's say, | + | And then you think "Should this be sung or rendered as a mime". |
- | For the time will surely come when this dog will have its day, | + | |
- | And they' | + | You know the tunes you put to them are pretty good but that\\ |
- | chap, | + | The singers will soon change them - at the dropping |
- | We want a song on " | + | They don't like notes that are too high, or notes that are too low,\\ |
- | Ah, you think that Itm an egotist? that may be clear to see, | + | But they can't hear their own voices, so I s'pose they' |
- | But I'm always on the note-, I'm sure - er I think - er I hope - | + | That they couldn't sing in tune, much less find a semi-tone,\\ |
- | er maybe? | + | And the overall effect is like the Dying Stockman' |
- | A "WRINKLE" | + | |
- | , | + | At last you get inspired and you write a bit of verse,\\ |
+ | They' | ||
+ | Until you find that someone else, inspired more than you\\ | ||
+ | Has had the same ideas, and the tune is bright and new,\\ | ||
+ | And the gang all get together and you rend it with a swing\\ | ||
+ | And "rend' | ||
+ | |||
+ | But I guess I should be patient, philosophical let's say,\\ | ||
+ | For the time will surely come when this dog will have its day,\\ | ||
+ | And they' | ||
+ | We want a song on " | ||
+ | Your tunes are really wonderful, we've always thought them so\\ | ||
+ | If you' | ||
+ | Ah, you think that I' | ||
+ | But I'm always on the note, I'm sure - er I think - er I hope - er maybe? | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====A "Wrinkle" | ||
Or rather how to avoid the wrinkles that sometimes develop in the leather lining of boots. | Or rather how to avoid the wrinkles that sometimes develop in the leather lining of boots. | ||
- | As we had one c two complaints on this annoying | + | |
- | develop | + | As we had one or two complaints on this annoying |
- | (with suitable | + | |
- | course they had an alibi, but seriously it sounded | + | As most of us do quite a lot of creek wading, etc. that saturates boots into a sodden squelching shape of leather, you can imagine (if you think about it) how stretched and distorted leather gets. This actually happens but especially to the light leather lining of the boots and while it is in such a condition it is likely to stretch more than the outside upper and the toes force it into wrinkles which are not so irritating |
- | hint. | + | |
- | As most of us do quite a lot of creek wading, etc. that saturates boots into a sodden squelching shape of leather, you can imagine (if you think about it) how stretched and distorted leather gets. This actually happens but especially to the light leather lining of the boots and while it is in such a condition it is likely to stretch more than the outside upper and the toes force it into wrinkles which are not so irritating | + | |
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+ | G.Y. Leather Dressing 2/3d. Tin. Dubbin 1/8 tin. Kiwi Wetpruf 1/6d. tin. | ||
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