Pictures from Haus Burrell

Colin Huggins (62/64) sent the following photos from a visit in summer to Dennis (62/64) and Ros Burrell's house. Shown here are some of their pets, although I suspect the last one to be an intruder.

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Lunch at The Harlequin in Brisbane (62/63)

Peter and Margaret Lewis are in Brisbane for a few days so what better chance than to catch up with a lunch at The 'Harlequin Restaurant' at the Sofitel Hotel above Central Station.

f.l.t.r. Diane Bohlen, Peter Lewis, Bill Bohlen, Margaret Lewis and Colin Huggins

As usual, the food and company were excellent. Peter and Margaret fly back home next Tuesday. 

Happy Grandparents

Bill and Diane Bohlen (Speakman 62/63) are happy to announce the arrival of their first grandchild Fox William, born in Sydney on the 13th May 2010 to Sonya and Bernie.

Bill and Diane and Fox William

The star of the show

Colin Huggins (62/63) reports from Sydney

Colin sends us his Report from Sydney:

" Dear friends"

Just a couple of days ago, I flew out from Brisbane on "Jetstar" to Newcastle where I was met by Peter and Margaret Lewis, who had only the day before returned from a trip to SA, where they were able to catch up with Val Rivers and David and Lorraine Westover. There will be a forthcoming report with photos of this trip at a later date.

Staying with "P & M" is just so wonderful, we have many laughs and managed once again to visit that great little pub at Paterson for lunch, hopefully photos of this place, also photos of a large "open-house" at an Agricultural College on the way. To see the number of cars there was to believe.

Then on the Sunday I left on the Intercity Express for Hornesby and then a taxi to Killara Golf Club.
 Not the largest of turnouts and all the reports can be found - President's and Treasurer's annual reports on the PNGAA website. Terry Chapman, the Groewegens,Riley Warren and the Walshes of ASOPA days (Education) seemed to have been the only attendees of education ASOPA. However, the camaradie was wonderful and I was at last able to meet Nancy Johnson, who is a most delightful lady and a fountain of knowledge on colonial PNG. Also I was able to speak with PP Harry West and past treasurer, Ross Johnson. The table I sat at was a great group and many laughs were had - especially on LATIN LESSONS!!! You are never to old to learn!

 Also Andrea Williams was present and hopes that with a site which will be attached to this blog, some of us may see fit to give our opinions on the new Australian history curriculum in relation to the old TPNG (colonial times under Australian control) and the war history, if anyone knows something, of WW2 that they feel should be included in the new history curriculum. Actually I think that Andrea, Riley Warren and Deveni Temu ( Committee member of PNGAA) will be accessing these ideas.

Next stop will be Young and on the return to Brisbane, I hope to catch up with the one and only " Moose" in Canberra and also, David Weeden during my 5 hour stopover there.


Cheers


Colin

Henry went fishing

OK .... here is the evidence - this fish won the fishin' competition at Dundee  (25 minutes by light plane SW of Darwin) recently. Measured 93 cm.....was released, of course. Cheers and beers, Henry B

He caught a whopper

and another

Justine Finter writes:

Hi Bill and Diane,

Thank you for keeping in touch.  I would love to participate after viewing all the blogs. Would you believe, I have a new laptop but still haven't mastered any new skills.

I'm not even sure how to use the comment box.  Yes, I'm still alive - I do hate getting old- even slower at everything.  

Please forward my congratulations to Henry for his life membership.

Richard's reviews are great.  Diane, you still looking good. I'm insanely jealous.  

Bill and I are still working on with the final touches to our motor home before going on road to join the "Grey Nomads.  I do love all the clever e-mails Ian has been forwarding onto me.  My strengths lie in pressing the "reply button" on e-mails.   Wishing you all good health and keep smiling.

Mary(Justine).

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (MA 15+)

Richard Jones reviews the following movie:

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (MA 15+)

FORTY years ago the beloved niece of a wealthy Swedish industrialist disappeared from a national Family Day celebration one summer.

Convinced she’d been murdered by someone from his mad, bad and very sad family, patriarch Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube) hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) to re-open the cold case.

The only problem for Mikael is that he’s in a spot of bother himself. Pinged by a court for publishing what it considers misleading revelations about corporate corruption, six months detention awaits the white knight.

Nevertheless he takes up residence in the isolated Vanger island enclave connected to the mainland by a single, long bridge.

Investigations proceed at a snail’s pace, with Mikael’s only real breakthrough a four decades old grainy press photo of the nearby town’s Family Day gathering.

On the day she disappeared, the missing Harriet Vanger is in the front row of the picture. But what is she peering at in the middle distance?

Fortunately for Henrik and Mikael, a Vanger family business friend has a contact. Lisbeth Salander is a 24-year-old anarchistic, goth-punk with sublime skills in computer hacking.

Things really start to move when Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace) moves into the estate cottage with Mikael.

Their joint investigations reveal that a number of murders of women across Sweden have remained unsolved.

Could Harriet Vanger have been a victim of this killer, or killers? And what is the meaning of an intriguing and mysterious five-line text  --- five, spaced capital letters on each line --- they find in Harriet’s Bible.

Journalist and crime thriller writer Stieg Larsson, whose world best seller formed the basis for this film’s script, was a crusader against Swedish corporate corruption and neo-Nazism.

And so, considering that a number of members of the Vanger family were fervent Nazi lovers during World War 2 and remained so in the decades after, there’s not much help for Mikael and Lisbeth on the home front.

It doesn’t bother Lisbeth. Only a fool would mess with this tough, tattooed investigator.

NOTE: as it’s a Swedish production, sub-titles are involved. Occasionally there’s snippets of English but remember, it is a European production.