June 2008
President's Report
GREETINGS ALL,
Once again, club members enjoyed a fine sunny day on the lawns of Old Parliament house for the annual Battle of Waterloo event held on Sunday 15 June. Furthermore, I am pleased to report that the 52 French cars, led by 30 Peugeots (and one Peugeot push bike), completely overwhelmed the 34 British cars on the day. Napoleon was there, of course, to take command of the French forces, which included not only Pugs, but Citroens, Renaults and a wonderful yellow Amilcar, aptly nicknamed the "Banana Boat". They say that an army marches on its stomach, and this proved to be the case, with our club BBQ team providing a steady stream of sausage sandwiches, as well as egg and bacon rolls, until supplies ran out.
My thanks to Rick and Ros Phillips, and Neil Sperring, for organizing and selling the food, from which we made a healthy profit that will subsidise the Bastille Day dinner to be held at the Hotel Kurrajong on Saturday 12 July. Rick Phillips and John Bower both won $50 fuel vouchers in the BOW raffle, which was sponsored by Shannons and proceedings ended with a ritual Wellington boot throwing competition to celebrate the overwhelming French victory. For the record, Simon Anderson won the competition with a throw of 24 metres. All in all, it was an excellent day, with a steady stream of spectators admiring the well- prepared cars on both sides of the battlefield.
Ian Crawford, Motoring Editor for the Canberra Times, gave the event some good publicity with a story in the motoring section of the CT on Friday the 13th, which almost certainly boosted public interest.
Last month the club meeting was held at the New Works Art Gallery in Colbee Court, Phillip, hosted by John and Rick Phillips. With drinks and nibbles in hand, we enjoyed an interesting mix of landscape paintings and motor-vehicle photographs, the latter featuring striking close-ups of rusting panels and car badges that could well have been taken in what used to be known as Flynn's car wreckers in Cooma.
Our next club meeting will be held at the Canberra Services Club, in Manuka, at 8 pm on Tuesday 24 June. Why not come along to catch up with friends, hear the latest Pug gossip and read the magazines received from other clubs?
Keep on pugging,
Brad Pillans
Other News
2008
- February 2008
- Mar 2008
- April 2008
- May 2008
- June 2008
- July 2008
- August 2008
- September 2008
- October 2008
- November 2008
2007
2006
- January 2006
- February 2006
- March 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- July/August 2006
- October 2006
- November 2006
- December 2006
2005
- February 2005
- March 2005
- April 2005
- May 2005
- July 2005
- August 2005
- September 2005
- October 2005
- November 2005
2004
- February 2004
- March 2004
- April 2004
- May 2004
- June 2004
- July 2004
- August 2004
- September 2004
- November 2004
2003
- March 2003
- April 2003
- May 2003
- June 2003
- July 2003
- August 2003
- September 2003
- October 2003
- November 2003
- December 2003
2002
- February 2002
- March 2002
- April 2002
- May 2002
- June 2002
- July 2002
- August 2002
- September 2002
- October 2002
2001
- February 2001
- March 2001
- April 2001
- May 2001
- June 2001
- July/August 2001
- September 2001
- October 2001
- December 2001
