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2008

JANUARY

Hogarth Club Luncheon. Upstairs at Chesser Cellar, Chesser Street, Adelaide.
Diners: John Bannon, David Bishop, Angus Redford, Michael Jacobs, Stephen Forbes, Roger Moore, Malcolm Elliott, Andrew Bishop, Tony Brooks, Tony Parkinson, John Potter, Leo Davis. Non seated visitors: Paul Kolarovich, Zar Brooks. Apology: Ian Hamilton.

John Bannon, Stephen Forbes, Andrew Bishop, Tony Parkinson, Angus Redford, John Potter (hidden), Michael Jacobs, Tony Brooks (just).

Zar Brooks, Tony’s son, made a short visit; he was dining downstairs with his fiancee, Elena Golakova, a Bulgarian lass. Sometime (years?) later, they married, established Dandelion Wines and had at least two sons.

Tony Brooks, has not had the day surgery necessary on his eyes (soreness just visible on edge of image above), that is keeping him from this year’s Be Your Age Fringe Review by ex Footlighters.

Angus Redford, Michael Jacobs, Stephen Forbes, Roger Moore, Malcolm Elliott, Andrew Bishop, Tony Brooks, Tony Parkinson, John Potter, John Bannon, David Bishop.

Tony Parkinson, John Potter.

Michael Jacobs, Stephen Forbes.

The Director of the Botanic Gardens, Stephen Forbes, came as Michael Jacob’s guest, and seems a genuinely nice guy who is passionate about Botany. His current research area is family Cactaciae and this may be reflected in the recent re plantings around the old Palm House.

Angus Redford, Michael Jacobs, Stephen Forbes, Roger Moore.

Angus Redford was keen to talk about the best school for his infant. His wife, an Indonesian, says Saints Girls, or nothing. He went to a State school himself and is, in his words, ‘a success’ and so is not sold on private school education.

Roger Moore told of some of his sporting passions. He is just back from skiing in Colorado where it was simply too cold; -20^oC with an added chill factor it seems. He gave up a Law Course, after 3 years, to pursue rowing. Rowdy discussion about Australian Rowing erupted with Angus Redford opposed to the sort of positions Roger, and David Bishop took.

Roger spoke of his wine business. He has his own label, reduces overheads by having no staff, designs and prints his own labels, etc., etc. The labels are a bit shoddy and ink wiped off when I tried to soak one off.

Malcolm Elliott, Andrew Bishop

Malcolm Elliott was called away to attend a bush fire that was threatening his home; Waterfall Gully?

FEBRUARY

Thursday, February 21, 2008.

Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon; The Chesser Cellar. Table 2 on Ground Floor platform.

Diners: John Bannon, Andrew Bishop, Ian Hamilton, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Leo Davis.
Seated visitor: ex-Chem teacher, Peter Schodde

Our turn-up was so small that we were relegated to the little platform just inside the entrance that had a great view into Chesser Street. Perhaps as consolation, Primo brought us a 1980 Roseworthy Port.

Retired Education Department Inspector/Superintendent and one time chemistry teacher, Peter Schodde, was dining nearby with a group of peers who, like us, meet at Chesser every third Thursday. He sat with us for a short time. Peter died in 2011.

Andrew Bishop, John Bannon, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Ian Hamilton.

John Bannon told us the believes that East Timor should never have been granted independence; nor should Kosovo. He spoke well of Ian McLachlan who chairs his SACA Board. Ian told John that he was never any good at politics. John believes that Kym Beasley was hopeless in Opposition but would have been a great PM. He said the opposite of Malcolm Turnbull who he reckons will be good as Opposition leader but hopeless and divisive as PM.

John was impressed by Bobby Kennedy’s son, speaking at a climate conference, here in Adelaide, yesterday. He was amazed at Kennedy’s attack on Bush, something that he said he would not do (mount a public attack on say Howard) while in a foreign country.

Seated: John Bannon, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Ian Hamilton. Inspecting the display boards: Andrew Bishop.

John told me that his wife, Angela, went to Elizabeth High School, where I taught from 1963 to 1972. I checked school magazines and found her in 2B (1963) and 3D (1964). In thosde days Elizabeth High School was an academic streamed school of the top ranking; largely driven by new migrant aspiration. Hence class 2B was a class of very able students. She went back to the UK sometime, maybe in 1965. Bannon mentioned a younger sister, Penny Tunstall, and I was amazed to remember her and being able to described her accurately; glasses, long straight dark hair. I found her photo, as a year 12 and a prefect, in the magazine of 1969 (by which time I was teaching Year 12 physics).

There was angry talk of Christopher Pearson boasting, in The Age (?) of buggering John Bray. To my surprise I found and attack on Pearson, on the www, from the Sydney Institute man, Gerard Henderson.

MARCH

Thursday, March 20, 2008.

Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon; The Chesser Cellar.
Diners: John Bannon, Michael Jacobs, Malcolm Elliott, Tony Brooks, David Bray, Wilfred Prest, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Leo Davis. Seated non diner: Andrew Bishop. Apologies: Ian Hamilton, Wayne Anthoney.

Before coming to Hogarth, along with John Bannon and Ian Hamilton, I attended the funeral of Clyde Cameron. Ian disapproved of the funeral saying it lacked ceremony, spirituality and appropriate music. I was surprised that publican (several pockies funded hotels) Greg Fahey was a pall bearer. He is the tall chap walking behind John Bannon below. John and I arrived late at Hogarth.

Wilf Prest, Tony Brooks, David Bray, Malcolm Elliott.

Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Prof Wilf Prest, Tony Brooks

John Bannon, Primo Caon serving pudding, Wilf Prest, Tony Brooks.

David Bray, Malcolm Elliott, Michael Jacobs, John Bannon, Leo davis, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge’, Primo Caon, Wilf Prest. (photo by Tony Brooks).

John Bannon, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Wilfred Prest, Tony Brooks, David Bray, Malcolm Elliott, Michael Jacobs

APRIL

Thursday, April 17, 2008.

Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon;
The Chesser Cellar. Table 2 on Ground Floor platform.

Diners: Michael Jacobs, Mark Scott, Leo Davis. Short non dining seated visit: Tracey Warren.
Apologies: John Bannon, Tony Brooks (NSW north coast), Tony Parkinson (overseas), Ian Hamilton, Wayne Anthoney.

Hogarth was reduced to a table of three so we dined downstairs, at table No. 2, on the elevated platform. Michael Jacobs guest was Mark Scott, a Worcester cricketer, in the past, and cricket/soccer coach at Westminster School. He may be at Wellington School, in the UK, next year, in the English summer. Mark played a number of seasons, as a professional, for Salisbury Cricket Club. He once drank something more than 30 beers at a club social function and later put his left (leading) hand through a glass door and so restricted his future batting career.

Michael has known Mark for about a year, the connection being their partners, Elizabeth Ho and Tracey Warren. At meals end Tracey called in, sat for a few seconds, and took Mark’s car keys, so that she could drive her father somewhere. Mark, she said, could walk home so he must live nearby.

Mark Scott, Michael Jacobs, waiter Kyle Brown. Note the famous Chesser buffet table at rear.

Mark had some interesting tales to tell. He told of playing at Worcester Oval and getting out, right on stumps, with John Arlott commentating. As he walked off, the bells of the 15^th (or similar) century Cathedral peeled their nightly 6 o’clock and Arlott said ‘And the bell tolls for Mark Scott.’ Mark is a passionate follower of racing and rode something like 47 times in steeplechases, involving about 6 falls, the last of which stripped him of his nerve.

Mark revealed that he has not been ‘blessed with children’, that he sublimates desires for children on the boys he coaches. He now suffers, how seriously he did not say, from prostate cancer. His Dad, who drank hard, has been hospitalised for years, following three separate by-pass heart operations, and now suffers dementia. Mark visits him on his trips home but his father has not recognised him for years and he all but looks forward to his death. As we spoke of aged parents Jacobs told of his mother’s decline, after the onset of Motor Neuron Disease.

Mark and Michael competed to tell stories about their knowledge and appreciation of music, especially Beethoven. Michael told of buying a CD set of Beethoven piano pieces played on the revolutionary Stuart & Sons Australian piano. It has a radical anchoring of the strings that improves sound quality, has 102 strings and at least one model, in Newcastle, is made of golden Huon pine. His Aunt gave him $60 on his recent (day of last Hogarth actually) 60^th birthday and he put that money towards the 6 CD set. His aunt, his father’s sister, is a Mrs Bridges, and is/was a musicologist

Mark and Michael also competed telling cricket anecdotes and clearly Mark knew them all by heart. Michael retold the anecdote about Brian Johnson, saying, on resumption of play, ‘The bowlers Holding, the batsman’s Willy’ story, for my benefit, and I didn’t remind him he’d told it to me an number of times already. Mark told stories about a famous bat manufacturer and I learned that willow wood is graded by the number of growth lines across the 4 inches (surely more than that?) of the bat face. Something like 14 was good tight number.

Mark asked for advice about good wines to buy for cellaring but the request was only a way to tell how good a bargain he’d managed in buying half a dozen Grange Hermitages at a Tesco outlet in the UK. A wine to accompany the cheese was discussed and I offered to put my spare bottle on the table, a Cascabel Tipico. Michael said ‘I don’t know the variety’ and I explained that Tipico was once Cascabel’s Grenache et al but is now their now their GSM. Michael announced that a quality Cabernet was necessary. He bought a Yalumba Signature Cabernet Shiraz, from the list, for $69.

Michael was pleased to report that he was off to Canberra for the 20/20 Conference. I don’t think he was pleased when I said, ‘Oh, yes. Liz is one of the conferees, isn’t she?’ He was quick to tell that he has a Press Pass and this led to a cute anecdote. He’d been required to send off a photo in applying for the pass. Notification came that he will need ‘photo ID’ to be able to pick it up, even though his photo will be on it, and he intends to use the anecdote in his next Adelaide Review column.

Michael expressed regret that David Bishop’s SPSC crew had beaten Roger Moore’s Pembroke crew (both lads sometime Hogarthians) in the recent Head of the River.

I was struck by the confidence with which Michael tackles almost any matter that arises. His years as journalist have given him a broadly informed background.

MAY

Thursday, May 15, 2008.
Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon; The Chesser Cellar.
Diners: John Bannon, Michael Jacobs, Malcolm Elliott, Tony Brooks, Tony Parkinson, John Potter, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Ian Hamilton, Wayne Anthoney, Rolf De Heer, Leo Davis.
Apologies: Roger Moore, Prof Wilf Prest.

Ian Hamilton, Malcolm Elliott, Tony Parkinson, John Bannon, Michael Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney (hidden), John Potter (hidden), Rolf de Heer, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Tony Brooks.

I was surprised at how star struck many of the diners were. On being introduced to Rolf de Heer one chap said ‘Oh, THE Rolf de Heer’ and another returned to shake his hand a second time once he realised to whom he’d been introduced.

Rolf was quite charming. He did seem uncomfortable about the food; perhaps he might be vegetarian. He seemed to leave most of his corned beef and I don’t think he touched much of his pudding.

Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Rolf de Heer, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge. Tony Brooks, Ian Hamilton, Malcolm Elliott, Tony Parkinson, John Bannon.

I asked about the mosquitoes during filming of Ten Canoes and he said had they been near to a hospital perhaps half of the crew would have been admitted. Asked about the Aboriginal sense of humour he told of a joke falling dead flat because its punch line centred on the desirability of a large penis when, in the culture he was filming in, small penises were valued.

The budget for Ten Canoes was $2,000,000 and the film broke even. So sad and surprising. Rolf directed and, as is his usual practice, he wrote the script. He is currently writing a script for someone else for a film with a budget of around $200,000,000. It ranges from about 1850 to the present, and involves the man who piloted the first plane to strike the Twin Towers.

Ian Hamilton, Tony Parkinson, John Bannon, Michael Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, waiter Kyle Brown, Rolf de Heer, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge.

Malcolm Elliott, Ian Hamilton, John Bannon, Mike Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Rolf de Heer

JUNE

Thursday, June 19, 2008.

Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon; The Chesser Cellar.
Diners: John Bannon, David Bishop, Andrew Bishop, Michael Jacobs, Roger Moore, Tony Brooks, Tony Parkinson, Mark Scott, Wilfred Prest, Leo Davis. Apology: Ian Hamilton.

Roger Moore, David Bishop, Tony Brooks, Prof Wilf Prest, Mark Scott, Tony Parkinson, John Bannon, Andrew Bishop, Michael Jacobs. (It looks like we had sausages and sauerkraut).

There were lots of memorable yarns today, some coming from a richer lode than others. Mark Scott has a couple of topics; cricket and an authoritarian approach to life and the training for it (mainly for boys). Tony Parkinson told a range of anecdotes, almost all related to vintage and or veteran and/or racing cars. David Bishop and Roger Moore both contributed on rowing matters and a stern approach to Law and Order. Roger told of a retired prison warden who had assured him that sex offenders given a few lashes from a cat & nine tails never returned to prison; at least for that offence. Bannon, Jacobs and Andrew Bishop were less single topic persons and managed to join each conversation with other topics including AIMII stadium, Australian Rules v Soccer and the recent exhumations.

A sometime South Australian batsman, Mark Cosgrove, got a pasting from Mark Scott. Seems he is grossly overweight and refuses to or cannot manage a diet to control it. Mark told a lot about his attitudes saying ‘You can take the boy out of the Northern Suburbs but you can’t ……..’ A number of times it was said that the chap ‘isn’t very clever.’

Mark Scott, Tony Parkinson, John Bannon, Andrew Bishop, Michael Jacobs Roger Moore, David Bishop, Tony Brooks.

John Bannon was present at the recent exhumation of Charles Kingston and Bert Edwards and actually saw the skeletons.

In May, ABC News reported
‘Former SA premier John Bannon, now with the law school of Adelaide University, said the exhumation happened in March and it was a respectful process in which remains were kept at the site. "As far as Charlie himself, he'd be delighted (to be) back on the front page of the paper," Mr Bannon said.’

John asked the pathologist if there was any possibility of seeing signs of syphilis and was told that it is possible to see effects in bones but none could be seen in Kingston’s skeleton. The pathologist asked if Kingston had been a tennis player, because he had enlarged right arm bones. No, said John, but he did walk with a cane because of a leg injury. Could this account for the strengthened arm? It could and the pathologist went to the left knee and saw that it was badly damaged. A lump on the skull suggested a possible tumour and the presence of such can be associated with keeping lots of hair into old age and might explain some of Kingston’s erratic behaviour.

Tony Parkinson, John Bannon, Andrew Bishop,

John told us about Bert Edwards. He died in the 1960s. He’d run a number of pubs, including the Brunswick, the Newmarket, the British Lion in Hindmarsh and the Hotel Victor at Victor Harbor. He entered parliament around 1917, on the wave of the anti conscription referendums. Some time he was set up and exposed as a homosexual, gaoled, and stripped of his seat. Bannon says Don Hopgood (State Parliament member 1970-93; Deputy Premier 1985-92) tracked down the man used to trap and testify against him. He was living in the Riverland and not keen to talk but confirmed his role. Within 10 years Edwards was back on the Adelaide City Council. He was active member of SANFL club West Adelaide and used his friendship with the Power Without Glory John Wren, in Melbourne, to arrange trips for the players.

Viewing Edwards’ bones let Bannon quash rumours about the nature of his burial, said to have been very ostentatious. In fact he was buried nude, inside a shroud, remnants of which remained. He’d bequeathed all his money to some order of Nuns.

Andrew Bishop, Prof Wilf Prest, Michael Jacobs. Roger Moore.

Roger Moore told of a home invasion, into the house of an 84 year old woman who lives next door and had some simple suggestions about what should be done to the drug crazed perpetrators. He also told, with prompting from Andrew, how he dealt with lesbians who gathered in his Botanic Gardens Restaurant and lingered on and on. He’d go to their table and say ‘Another coffee, SIR?’ He told of seeing off bykies when he ran a pub, by not stocking (or saying he didn’t) Jim Beam or Jack Daniels.

There was an enthusiastic consensus that both Allan Hickenbotham and his son, Michael, are capable of the sexual harassment that they have been accused of. Bannon chuckled about Allan’s sexual exploits in the past and thought it likely he is still actively engaged. There seemed an almost admiring acceptance of Allan’s behaviour but a real distaste for the son who was portrayed as simply a mean and nasty piece of work.

Mark Scott, Tony Parkinson, John Bannon, Andrew Bishop, Michael Jacobs Roger Moore, David Bishop.

JULY

Thursday, July 17, 2008.
Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon; The Chesser Cellar.
Diners: John Bannon, Michael Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney, Ian Hamilton, Prof Wilfred Prest, John Paisley, Prof Donald Brook, Leo Davis. Apology: Tony Parkinson (Perth).

Wilf Prest, Michael Jacobs, Donald Brook, Wayne Anthoney, John Paisley, Ian Hamilton.

Lionel Murphy got a thorough pasting from both John Bannon and Michael Jacobs. Bannon saw him as a crook and a lecher, harsh words about a hero of the Labor left. Fortunately, no Hogarthian has ever had untoward intentions towards a woman.

Wilf Prest, Michael Jacobs, John Bannon, Donald Brook, Wayne Anthoney, John Paisley, Ian Hamilton.

Wayne Anthoney (John Paisley to his left) read something to us and (see below) it was clearly well chosen and delivered.

Wayne Anthoney, Ian Hamilton, Wilf Prest, Michael Jacobs, John Bannon, Donald Brook.

John Paisley (above left) who works as an actor based in Beijing, announced the desire to do a house swap, with somebody in Adelaide, in three years time and Ian (above right) quickly put in a bid and I supported him. Jacobs, also keen, lost the immediate race. In time Ian and John did swap house for several months.

John Bannon and Donald Brook (Wayne’s guest).

Prof Donald Brook told of his training, almost to final exams, in Electrical Engineering, in the UK, before WWII and then army service in Radar research. Later the almost engineer turned to Art. He worked as a sculptor and newspaper Art Critic and MA student at ANU, in Canberra for some of the 1960s. In 1973 he became the inaugural chair of Fine Arts at Finders University and served till he retired in 1989. He lived in Cyprus from 1990 to 92 returning, via part time work at University of WA ,to settle in Adelaide where, currently, he lives in the same Eco village as Wayne, on Sturt St.

Reflective times at meal’s end; Wilf Prest and Michael Jacobs.

Michael Jacobs revealed that his grandfather was the first Jew to be admitted to the Adelaide Club, in about 1951 or 52, and that John Bannon had endorsed the club’s rejection of Albert Bensimon as a member.

Jacob’s told a story I’d heard before and forgotten, about a Labor candidate in a marginal seat, to which Gough Whitlam came to campaign. Whitlam noticed a campaign leaflet that announced the candidate, Richie Gunn, had been ‘recognised by the Leader of the Opposition for his wide general knowledge.’ ‘What’s this comrade?’ asked Whitlam and the candidate reminded him that once when he, the candidate had been proven right and Whitlam wrong, on some issue, Whitlam had said ‘Fuck off, you know all!'

Another wonderfully told Whitlam anecdote, from Jacobs, was about a debate with Whitlam speaking for the proposition 'That the flag be changed’ and Jim Killen taking the con side. After the debate, questions from the floor were taken by, a now drunk, Michael Carlton who accepted a question from ‘the lady up at the back with the big tits.’ A question followed from a man who turned out to be her husband, directed to ‘the gentleman at the front with the small balls.’ Whitlam said ‘Let me reply on behalf of the identified gentleman’ and proceeded to expound upon the rudeness or otherwise of the word ‘balls’ saying that in the Tindale Bible the preferred term was stones but as that became a disreputable word the newer versions plumped for ‘bollocks.’ He expanded upon the way words change and then led that into the need for a change in the flag.

DECEMBER

Thursday, December 18, 2008.

Monthly Hogarth Club Luncheon: Hogarth Room, upstairs at The Chesser Cellar.

Diners: John Bannon, Michael Jacobs, Wayne Anthoney, Bob Ellis, John Potter, Tony Brooks, Ian Hamilton, Peter Tregilgas, Nigel Mitchell, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Tony Brooks, Frank Staltari, George Belperio, Nick Pilla, Prof Wilfred Prest, Ron Danvers, Edmund Pegge, Paul Kolarovich, Leo Davis. Short seated visit: Jack Hoytsted. Short non seated visit: Dianna Cleland.

Nigel Mitchell, Frank Staltari, Michael Jacobs, Prof. Wilfred Prest, Tony Brooks, Paul Kolarovich, Edmund Pegge, Bob Ellis, Wayne Anthoney.

Somebody, was it Wayne, asked, ‘Why are you in town?’ Bob Ellis answered with a number of reasons concluding with ‘And to say goodbye to my Adelaide mistress, which I do every four months.’

Bob Ellis, John Potter, Peter Tregilgas, Nigel Mitchell, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge, Nick Pilla (head of table), Ian Hamilton, Frank Staltari, George Belperio, Paul Kolarovich, Ron Danvers, Edmund Pegge, John Bannon.

Wayne Anthoney, Bob Ellis, Ian Hamilton (centre rear and hidden), Frank Staltari, George Belperio, Paul Kolarovich, Ron Danvers, Edmund Pegge, John Bannon.

Bob Ellis read three separate extracts from his next book. I found them very entertaining, if self-indulgent, but Red and Ian were not impressed and nor was John, the latter getting a mention in the reading.

Ed Pegge, Michael Jacobs, Wilf Prest, Wayne Anthoney, Bob Ellis.

Paul Lloyd moved, to Port Augusta at the end of 2007, taking his flute with him, so Wayne brought along his blues harp and tin whistle.

Wayne Anthoney, Bob Ellis, John Potter (hidden), Peter Tregilgas, Nigel Mitchell, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge (hidden), Nick Pilla, Ed Pegge, John Bannon.

Something (I forget what), written for three characters, was read by Wayne Anthoney, Bob Ellis and Ed Pegge with Bob recording (right hand) the performance.

Carols over pudding: Ron Danvers, Edmund Pegge, Briony Moore, John Bannon Tony Brooks.

After a number of failures in previous years, the humidity and other variables were perfect today, allowing Triggers famous Tea Bag rocket to launch successfully. Bob Ellis, John Potter, Peter Tregilgas, Nigel Mitchell, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge.

Bannon delivered a fine reworking of the Irish Goal Keeper joke. George Belperio, Paul Kolarovich, Ron Danvers, Edmund Pegge, John Bannon, Tony Brooks.

Brooks told a nicely reworked version of Tony Short’s ‘White Gorilla joke’.
Wayne re-told what has become his speciality, ‘The Booboorowie Brass Band’; perhaps originally a Tony Short joke.
In the spirit of retelling old gems, Jacobs recounted ‘In Australia we shear them’ followed by ‘I’m not sharing this with anybody’ tale.

Michael Jacobs, Wilf Prest, Wayne Anthoney, Bob Ellis, John Potter, Peter Tregilgas, Nigel Mitchell, Robert ‘Red’ Hodge.

Chaps not seen at Hogarth since we moved to Jolleys in August 2012: Nick Pilla, Ian Hamilton, Frank Staltari, George Belperio,

George Belperio told a number of ‘true stories’, including the ‘no fucking tomatoes’ gem.

I was intrigued as to how stories can undergo a Chinese Whisper process. Somebody told of newspaper report of a student who’d been enrolled at a school that refused to accept him because his name was, is, ‘somebody’ Adolph Hitler ‘somebody’. Nigel Mitchell, once an Anglican, now a Catholic heading towards priesthood, expanded upon the story to say that The Australian reported, today, that the boy’s sister has the name ‘somebody’ Arian Nation ‘somebody’. So I went out and bought today’s Australian and found no reference to a school but The Australian article reported the family ordering a birthday cake and wanting the 3 year old boy’s name inscribed on it. A first cake shop refused but a second was happy to oblige. Maybe the first article (The Advertiser?) did refer to a school, but it reminds me how an inaccurate story can arise, become reinforced and be propagated.

Bob Ellis, Jack Hoytsted., Michael Jacobs, Tony Brooks.

Jack Hoytsted dropped in to speak to Bob Ellis.

Dianna Cleland visited to pick up partner Frank Staltari and recognised an old acquaintance, Tony Brooks.