George, Stan & Rover Reunion

Headline 1: “Shane Warne to retire”

Headline 2: “200 Journalists to be laid off”

INN EDEN

EXPERIENCE
The Heavenly Pleasure Room of
INN EDEN

A COSMIC HASHISH PARTY WILL TAKE PLACE ON
December 5 th and 25 th 1970

EVERY TYPE OF HASH PRODUCT WILL BE

Available as Always


BEST QUALITY VARIETY
HASH- HASHISH CAKES, COOKIES, COFFEE
TEA SQUASH
WILL BE SERVED.
OTHER FOODS WILL BE FOUND
IN THE TOTALLY NEW DEHCIOUS
INN EDEN RESTAURANT
REMEMBER- DEC 5 th & 25 th

Heavenly Pleasure at
OUR
FREE COSMIC HASHISH PARTY

As one of those who was naive and immature in the ways of the weed, and did not partake of the “Heavenly Pleasure, I would be interested to know, from those who did indulge, if they can recall anything of their “cosmic” experience. I do remember some very strange people returning to the hotel in the early hours of the morning.

In the meantime, my Best Wishes to everyone for a happy and peaceful festive season, and I look forward to meeting up with many of you in 2007 – the Year of the Reunion.

PS. Will do my best to get something up on the Oz trip over the holiday period.

Good news from the “Land of the Long White Cloud”. I’ve had a email from Paul Foster to say that both he and Don Clarke are in the process of making travel arrangements to be at the reunion in March.
Well done to Jean for getting this particular ball rolling. Your reward of several free feeds awaits you in Melbourne.
By the way, Jean, do you prefer McDonalds or KFC?

Latest weather forecast from Melbourne – smoky, again. I hope it clears up by March, otherwise you might have to bring your own fire fighting equipment.

After a hard day of internet equine investment on the races on Saturday, I logged off, settled into the sofa, and flicked the TV on to watch the third Test Match from Perth. The timing could not have been better as Adam Gilchrist proceeded to create a little bit of history by "tonking" the poms to all parts of the WACA in scoring a century off just 57 balls. He just failed to break Viv Richards record of a 56 ball century, but boy was it enjoyable. I know that, as an ex-pom, I shouldn’t delight in an English team getting a good thrashing, but I do make an exception of the England Cricket team.
Following Gilchrist’s performance, Ricky Ponting declared and put the poms in for the second dig, where they lost one wicket before stumps.
I went to bed reasonable content only to be woken at about 2.30am by the THUMP, THUMP, THUMP of music coming from a neighbour’s birthday party over the back fence. How did I know it was a birthday party? Because of the singing of “Happy Birthday to Laurie”, but I don’t know if Laurie’s birthday was on Saturday or Sunday – whichever, it was a bit late at 2.30 in the morning.
To help drown the racket from the party, I turned on the radio and tuned to the BBC World Service. Here, Jonathon Agnew was interviewing the ex-Yorkshire batsman, Geoffrey Boycott, about the Test match in Perth.
Now it should be said that Geoff Boycott was not the most exciting of English batsman. In fact if you look up “boring” in the Oxford English Dictionary, it has a photo of Boycott playing a forward defensive stroke. So, after one of the most memorable days of Test cricket in recent years, what was Geoffrey rabbiting on about? He was saying that the England team had a “cat in hells chance” of saving the match because they didn’t have any batsmen (and the implication was – like me) who could bat for two days. Here’s the problem, Geoff, Adam Gilchrist was batting in front of a full house. If you had been batting for two days, the ground would have been empty. The bloke is way past his use by date.

Note to BBC: please rid me of this irritant Yorkshire man.