June2015_NETWORK TOPIC

Well this is a strange one . . . Usually at this time of year I am writing this column after attending the Dayboro Day Festival (before sending the edition off for printing . . . having filled in the spaces left for the festival news such as the award winners).  Not this year! . . . You will have to wait until the July edition for that round-up as this year’s June edition will already be printed and about to be delivered when the festival happens.

Not only that . . .  but there is also the absence of a report on the Dayboro Rodeo . . because that event had to be rescheduled due to the rain in early May.  June 14 is the rescheduled date for Dayboro Rodeo . . . see you there!

Oh how well I remember that rain!!  I was caught up in the issue of the Brisbane trains coming to a halt.  Hey . . . some things just cannot be helped!  One of the things that could have been handled so much better was where (and, to a certain degree, when) passengers were off-loaded.  I was offloaded on the very exposed platform of Bowen Hills Station – in the pouring rain – along with so many other passengers . . and kept ‘in the dark’ as regards what was happening.  Soaking wet and cold we eventually made it to Petrie Station.  So close, but yet so far . . . because I had parked at Narangba Station that morning, due to the impossibility of getting a parking space at Petrie!

Misleading information about road closures delayed my ‘rescue’ from Petrie Station until well after 10pm . . . By then I did not care about my car, I just wanted to get home – and warm, and dry!  (My journey had begun at 3.20pm)

It all was quite the adventure and makes for a different sort of tale to tell . . . . but I could certainly do without the lingering health issues that have plagued me since.  One would certainly be hoping that these will be behind me come Dayboro Day, as I am certainly ‘so over it’ right now!  This ‘old girl’ just doesn’t bounce back as quickly as she used to is the plain and simple truth of the matter!!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

n.b. Page references refer to positioning in the printed and digital June 2015 edition. 

13 June Lions Changeover Dinner (see p. 7)

13 June Sign up for Lions Youth Project (see p. 7 & 11)

14 June DAYBORO RODEO (see p. 4)

14 June North Pine Bush Poetry at Dayboro (see p. 6)

20 June Chanting (see p. 6)

20 June Lions Movie – “Home” (see p. 7)

20 June Wimbledon Challenge in Dayboro (see p. 9 & 42)

28 June Mount Mee Wedding Fair (see p. 10)

4 & 5 JULY   DAYBORO SHOW  (See p. 10)

25 July Trivia Night – fundraiser for Mt Samson State School (see p. 9)