Happy Birthday to Us

The 15th June saw my 65th birthday, which was not the world's most exciting event. However, I received 5 cards and a couple of presents which were nice, and I received an email from a long-time friend of about 52 years standing!

The following evening (the 16th) we met up with friends for a birthday dinner (Jane Stening and her brother Bill Forsyth). It was his 66th birthday so we combined forces for an extravaganza and headed off to Jean Pierre's for the night. There are no prizes for guessing that this is Armidale's French provincial restaurant and the food was very good. I had crepes and a salmon pasta, while Bill had duck soup and a pie from Provence. The ladies also had various exotica and we finished the whole lot off with a lovely tart with a meringue topping and a couple of bottles of wine. The white wine was called The Fifth Leg (from Western Australia)and had the image of a cattle dog on the label.

That was the prelude to my staff seminar today on the Psychology of Regional Development - a metaphysical investigation. I had a reasonable audience for a presentation that was so complex and murky I likened it the story of Schrodinger's Cat (look that up on the web) or the problem of quantum entanglement (look that up also). Having lost my audience, I nevertheless learned a lot myself from my mind experiment.

AS