37 years, 10 schools, av. 32 pupils per year = memories!

Remembering - an anthology - My exhibition, celebrating 65th birthday.

In the lead-up to the 2003 Maroubra Bay High School reunion, I was still a new assessor for the Keep Australia Beautiful, Clean Beach Challenge.I was invited back every year - until this year! Every year there was no guarantee that I'd be invited to assess again.So it was always a pleasant surprise when the invitation came and I knew I'd be roaming a section of the NSW beaches again, in September and reporting on how I found them to be.

Not invited this year.
I rang and it did take a while before I received a response and that was an apology and also an explanation that it was considered that it was time for new blood.
I agree!!
And it works out so well.
Although, ironically, this would have been the first year that I am not a sole carer for my father (91), I DO have a lot to do THIS September:
Preparation for my first Art Exhibition, called: Remembering.
Should you be in the Darlinghurst area, in the week: 6th October - 12 October, and passing Palmer Street, I hope you can drop in and come and have a chat. I shall be there every afternoon, until 6 p.m..
Better still: Come and have something to eat and/or drink, on my birthday 7 p.m., 8th October, 2008, Tap Gallery.
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It came about, like this.............
Last Sunday was Fathers Day. (Certainly here, in Australia. I KNOW not everywhere in the world.)
My son and my daughter came with me, to visit my father (91), in Abel Tasman Retirement Village, on Sunday.
It was Fathers Day. (Celebrated in September, in Australia. Mothers Day is in May, like the rest of the world.)
After we visited my father we drove to the city and had lunch, in Oxford Street, Sydney.
Then we walked around the corner, into Palmer Street, where, in the 50s and 60s, my best friend, from Maroubra Bay High School (Heartbreak High setting, when it was abandoned.) used to live.
We walked into the Tap (Art) Gallery where I showed them the four paintings of mine which are part of the Abut A Man exhibition.
We had coffee upstairs and then we spoke to Lesley (in-charge).
Before I knew it, we had agreed that a great way to celebrate my birthday would be the opening of my own exhibition, with 65 paintings to celebrate my 65th birthday, on October 8, 2008.
Gosh! Once again, my daughter and my son gave me the push that was needed.

(My son, quite a few years ago, took ME to buy MY car. HE spoke to the salesman because my son knew what was best for me. I just told the salesman I wanted a white one.)

(My daughter, a few years ago, took me to lunch - on Valentine's Day - to Hazelhurst Art and Community Centre and THAT is how I ended up attending a regular, weekly art class there and producing, in less than three years, those 65 paintings.)