After a hectic time on Tuesday Wednesday was a relative rest with no talks to give but just lots of good mates from industry to meet and greet and renew network connections with (sorry Winston Churchill!) . Many good talks to listen too and a few bad ones too. The evening was spent enjoying a steak dinner with Russ and Mike. Thursday was a bit more strenuous with two presentations of my own to give plus being a co-author with both Mike and Russ for their two papers. Luckily I was not required to speak, just answer some questions.
We had a good conference dinner on Wednesday evening although most of the comments were related to the proposed super tax for Australian mining companies - I think you can guess the industry view....
Thursday night the three of us caught up with another chum who is now a big cheese in the EPA
Friday was a sort of day off as a couple of meetings were cancelled. Dinner was spent with some very old friends from Darwin days and whose elder son had been at school with Michael and is now an orchard manager, the next son is in design and their daughter ,who used to rent my house in Darwin is about to get married. All great stuff and a lovely meal at a place up in the Adelaide Hills.
Saturday morning was an early 0530 start for the double barrel trip Adelside-Sydney and then Sydney-Armidale to catch up with son Michael. Turned out he was not only on one charter to Lord Howe Island that ended at the Gold Coast, but had a follow on from there to Mackay in Queensland so he would be unable to meet me at the airport after all. He left his ute and keys for me at the airport so I found my way down to the motel and later his girlfriend Billie came over after her netball game and we moved the ute up to the airport for M to use when he got back and then we went to look at the house M is having built. It has bricks on the walls now and looks pretty good ,apart from no garage door, the water pipes in the wrong place for the dishwasher and some other minor niggles that have to be worked on. The builder apparently says all weill be well by mid-July.
Dinner was spent at a Thai restaurant in Armidale with Billie and the wife of another of M's pilot mates who is away at the moment. M finally joined us as we had coffee and then it was off for an early night after what had been a long day for everyone.
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