Joined: Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:53 am Posts: 535
City or Town: Sheidow Park State: SA
Hippy Chippy wrote:
david warren wrote:
The 'Rabbit' Warrens are back in Sydney after the 14th intake reunion on Philip Island. So I can confidently say I can be upgraded to an attendee. See you Saturday!!!!
That's great news, Dave, we look forward to catching up with you... Perhaps you'll help Tafmo with our Drinking Team on the day...
I've now given up hustling, collecting, confirming the names of this year's starters for our 2018 (16th) Annual RAN Skilled Hands Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smokey, I've also booked our usual venues for Saturday's breakfast and lunch, for 16 participants... In the order that they've indicated intentions to attend, here are our 18 attendees so far...
Confirmed:
Chris 'SeeJay' O'Keefe, Col 'Pussasan' Kelson, Steve 'Shep' Shepherd, Steve's 'Partner' Polly, Polly's Uncle, John 'Chippy Ned' Kelly, Ellen Kelly, Brian 'Stroppy Chippie' McKenzie, Verna 'Toots' McKenzie, Brian 'Charlie' Staples, Howard 'Hendo' Henderson, Mark 'Mobes' Mobley Bob 'Tafmo' King, Rhonda King, Gordon 'Gordo' Robertson, Sandy Robertson, Dave 'Rabbit' Warren, Rick 'Hippy Chippy' Pengilly...
Possibles:
John 'Viv' McLeod,
May Bees:
Mick 'Mick H' Hamilton
Can't Bees Henry 'Schoobs' Schubert, Mike 'Pony' Moore, Mark 'Sully' Sulivan...
Wanna Bees: The 3 Girls in the clip above..!
Late starters please indicate your intentions A.S.A.P., so I can adjust our bookings...
P.S.Gordo, Dave, et all, you'll notice, the Greenies in the list above are now all in GREEN...!
P.P.S. I regret that I will be unable to participate in The Basin Trials this year, see you all on Saturday...
Dear would bees if they could bees....we, the supposed Wanna Bees, will not be attending as our drinking will show you all up...except for the Greenies of course........ .
_________________ Robin (Bob) King
R105234
Ex-WOETS4
25th MOBI Intake
July 68 - June 88
Nirimba, Waratah (Dam Neck), Brisbane, Waratah (Mare Is & LBNSY), Harman (CDSC), Waratah (Mare Is), Brisbane, Harman (Navy Office & CDSC), Waratah (Dam Neck & Mare Is), Harman (CDSC)
Joined: Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:24 am Posts: 568
City or Town: Schofields State: NSW
What time at City Extra (9 or 9.30)?
The booking's for 9:30 am, Brian...
I've booked both of the restaurants, City Extra for 0930 for breakfast and Lord Nelson for 1300 for lunch, booked in the names of both ‘Rick’ and/ or ‘Navy Apprentices’, for approx.18 people... H.C.
_________________ Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond
Joined: Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:24 am Posts: 568
City or Town: Schofields State: NSW
Another great gathering, perfect company and perfect weather. Sorry for piking before the end and especially sorry for not saying goodbye to everyone who was there. See you next year - Brian and Verna
_________________ Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond
Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:09 am Posts: 4586
City or Town: Lake Munmorah State: NSW
Yep, we've nailed it for the 16th year in a row, and whilst I was late due to unforeseen circumstances, I managed to arrive in time for the traditional/ obligatoryGroup Photo at the Harbour View...
.......................................Left-Right: Dave Warren, Dave, (Polly's Uncle,) Chris O'Keefe, Polly, (Shep's BFF,) Bob King, Steve Shepherd, Rick Pengilly, Howie Henderson, Mark Mobley, .......................................Gordon Robertson, Dave Maxwell, Brian Mackenzie, Sandy Robertson, John Kelly, Ellen Kelly, Brian Staples, Verna Mackenzie, Col Kelson and Rhonda King...
If your mug-shot wasn't amongst this year's 'Usual Suspects', you were sadly missed, if your mug-shot has NEVER been seen amongst the 'Usual Suspects', why not...? What's wrong wiv ya...?
..................................................................... P.S. I know there's HEAPS more photos to come over coming days, so stay posted...
Joined: Thu Nov 13, 2003 12:46 am Posts: 101
City or Town: Shrewsbury State: Massachusetts
I hope you all had a great time. Anne and I think back on the year we attended with great fondness. It was one of the best trips we ever took. If circumstsnces in the future allow, we wouldn't mind attending again
Chris, I seem to recall seeing that shirt some where before. Tell Jan that I haven't bought any more since our time in Hawaii. Yet.
_________________ Fred Russell
Enlisted USMC 3 March 1972 on delayed entry. Active duty 17 June 1972. Due to a Reduction In Force as the Vietnam War wound down, discharged for a minor medical problem , 23 July 1972.
Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:09 am Posts: 4586
City or Town: Lake Munmorah State: NSW
And you and Anne are well remembered too Fred, I believe you two still hold the record for the distance travelled* to attend our annual get-together...
*Is it travelled or traveled?
When adding -ing and -ed to verbs, we sometimes double the consonant beforehand. People are often confused with ‘travelled/traveled’, ‘benefitted/benefited’, ‘focussed/focused’ and ‘targetted/targeted’. This tip answers some of those queries.
The official requirements are that we ‘double a single consonant letter at the end of any base where the preceding vowel is spelled with a single letter and stressed’.
It is true to say that there is usually no doubling when the preceding vowel is unstressed (‘enter’ becomes ‘entering/entered’; ‘visit’ becomes ‘visiting/visited’) or when the preceding vowel is written with two letters (‘dread’ becomes ‘dreading/dreaded’).
Travel
However, with some final consonants, even in cases when the preceding vowel is unstressed (so you would think that there would be no doubling), doubling does occur in standard received British English (but is not favoured in American English), so ‘travel’ becomes ‘travelling/travelled’. Others in this grammatical group (verbs ending in an unstressed vowel, followed by the letter ‘l’) are ‘cancel’, ‘counsel’, ‘dial’, ‘model’, ‘parallel’ and ‘signal’.
Some words change their spelling to cope (they add a letter ‘k’).
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