there I was watching the BBC News when on came an advertisement promoting Hong Kong featuring our own Peter and Jing Forsythe. They came across as the international glamour power couple. The ad took some from this HK promotion piece. Click on http://facesofhongkong.com/en/ and then click on the faces of Peter and Jing and they will take you on a tour of Hong Kong waters. I think an ad for ROLEX watches should be next and I should be their manager (just kidding).
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Class of '68 Blog
1968'ers also have a Blog site.
Click here to see it.
I'm sure you will If you go to you might recognize those that were in the class behind us.
Cheers,
Steve P.
Click here to see it.
I'm sure you will If you go to you might recognize those that were in the class behind us.
Cheers,
Steve P.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Death of Paul McKeown
Mr Paul John McKeown AM,
Mr Paul McKeown was Headmaster at Canberra Grammar School from 1959 to 1985. Early this morning we were advised that Mr McKeown passed away, peacefully at his home. He was 87 years old. Details about a memorial service, according to the family’s wishes, will be advised in due course.
Outstanding leader in life and education ...is the heading in The Canberra Times Obituary published on Thursday 27th May 2010..you will probably have to click on image and enlarge as it was scanned.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Possible get-together on 15-16 May?
[PF] Posting below emails from Padge and Dave Edmunds, re possible get-together on 15-16 May....
[SP email of 2nd May]:
Dear mates, I am forwarding this e-mail from David Edmunds to those who might like another opportunity to get together on the weekend of 15th/16th May. Do a reply to David ASAP so he knows if he should go ahead with the booking. You can count me in David, I hope we can get a quorum.
[SP email of 2nd May]:
Dear mates, I am forwarding this e-mail from David Edmunds to those who might like another opportunity to get together on the weekend of 15th/16th May. Do a reply to David ASAP so he knows if he should go ahead with the booking. You can count me in David, I hope we can get a quorum.
Barry fanging along with Therezia in Targa Tasmania
Barry, long-time competitor in the really, seriously competitively racy Targa Tasmania has been doing this for many years, with great success, mostly with podium finishes and often first.
Story in Canberra Times of 26th April, reporting that Barry and Therezia are climbing the leader board (I guess the result known by now).
Click on photo at left for larger size, and lint to another story on them in the Times' here.
Another photo of Barry, looking very fine and very young, below a few years back, at the Yacht Club here in Hong Kong.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Remember the days when many of us used to ride motorcycles. More than a few of us are dedicated motorbike riders now. There must be many more photos of interest out there. Send them to the Blog (To Steve Padge).
Above photo sent by Ian Sare, a photo given to him by Rob Armstrong. Ian's on a Suzuki 80, which he later sold to Padge.
PF comment: I think Barry Faux is off to Vietnam on a bike trip, South to North, shortly...
Friday, January 29, 2010
Alan Gould's literary references to the class of '67
Fellows,
Steve has asked me to describe for this blog a little of how I have used CGS in my fiction over the years. The school comes into two of my published novels, To The Burning City (1991) and The Lakewoman (2009) and an unpublished ‘creative memoir’ called Life Drawing.
Monday, January 25, 2010
David Edmunds and his amazing micro-light adventure
After leaving school I went to university and after graduating spent three desultory years in the public serviced before deciding I wanted to go teaching. I spent my first couple of years teaching in Alice Springs, and then another 28 teaching in Canberra. I sometimes thought about doing something else, but couldn’t find anything that I would have preferred. There was rarely a day when I didn’t enjoy my day at work.
Along the way I gained a wonderful wife and two children, now grown up and out of home.
When Steve Padgham encouraged me to write this post he asked me to tell the following story.
About twelve years ago I decided to build an aeroplane. During the seven years when I was working full time I did a little bit on the plane, but work was very busy, so not much was done. I need to get a run at projects like this and find it difficult to start work at 9.00 at night.
In the first three years after I finished full time work, building the plane was my main occupation.
Eventually I got it finished and took it out to Goulburn airport where I completed the final fitting and engine runups and the like. I got to know a local pilot, an EX-CGS boy as it happens called Dick Nell, and a friend of Grant Nuthalls, who is very experienced and agreed to test fly the aircraft for me. He suggested that I complete the taxi tests, and then do a high-speed run where I just lifted the wheels off the ground, then let it sink back onto the runway.
I started the high-speed run, but when the aircraft lifted it gained height very rapidly and I realised that I would not have enough runway left to land it, so thought, in the short time available, “well fuck it, I might as well fly the thing”
So I flew one circuit around the airport and landed, a bit heavily but OK.
My wife was with me and photographed the event, and here it is.
As we were not expecting to fly, she was not exactly equipped with the appropriate camera, so the video is pretty rough.
Having flown the thing, it seemed a bit precious to now ask my test pilot to check it out, so I thought that I might get him to do one or two of the more complex sequences a bit later and in the mean time I would continue test flying the aircraft.
So I went out to do the second flight with the aim to sort out the landings. Now the very limited book of instructions said to fly the final approach at 50mph and then let the plane float under ground effect and settle on the runway. So I thought that if I flew the final approach at 70, I should have a big margin as this would give me much more lift. This is what I did. As I flew over the fence on approach to the runway I let the speed drift back to about 65 when I was perhaps 30 feet above the ground and the plane fell like a stone, I did not have time to catch it and it pancaked onto the runway, breaking off the nose gear, bending the wings where the main gear attached, breaking the propellor and numerous other fittings, and leaving me completely unscathed. Pity really because otherwise it flew OK.
I had a good look over the ruins and decided that I could build another one in the time it would take to repair this one and just at the moment I was not in the mood, so I sold the wreck to a guy who intends to get it back flying, but hasn’t yet.
I loved the building experience, so that compensates for my very short flying time.
I bought another plane about 18 months ago.
In July I am going to the large aircraft convention at Oshkosh with Rick Frith, and one of my main goals is to check out what I may be able to build. We are then going to hire Harleys and go for a bit of a ride.
Thank-you Peter and Steve for the blog, you have done a great job.
Along the way I gained a wonderful wife and two children, now grown up and out of home.
When Steve Padgham encouraged me to write this post he asked me to tell the following story.
About twelve years ago I decided to build an aeroplane. During the seven years when I was working full time I did a little bit on the plane, but work was very busy, so not much was done. I need to get a run at projects like this and find it difficult to start work at 9.00 at night.
In the first three years after I finished full time work, building the plane was my main occupation.
Eventually I got it finished and took it out to Goulburn airport where I completed the final fitting and engine runups and the like. I got to know a local pilot, an EX-CGS boy as it happens called Dick Nell, and a friend of Grant Nuthalls, who is very experienced and agreed to test fly the aircraft for me. He suggested that I complete the taxi tests, and then do a high-speed run where I just lifted the wheels off the ground, then let it sink back onto the runway.
I started the high-speed run, but when the aircraft lifted it gained height very rapidly and I realised that I would not have enough runway left to land it, so thought, in the short time available, “well fuck it, I might as well fly the thing”
So I flew one circuit around the airport and landed, a bit heavily but OK.
My wife was with me and photographed the event, and here it is.
As we were not expecting to fly, she was not exactly equipped with the appropriate camera, so the video is pretty rough.
Having flown the thing, it seemed a bit precious to now ask my test pilot to check it out, so I thought that I might get him to do one or two of the more complex sequences a bit later and in the mean time I would continue test flying the aircraft.
So I went out to do the second flight with the aim to sort out the landings. Now the very limited book of instructions said to fly the final approach at 50mph and then let the plane float under ground effect and settle on the runway. So I thought that if I flew the final approach at 70, I should have a big margin as this would give me much more lift. This is what I did. As I flew over the fence on approach to the runway I let the speed drift back to about 65 when I was perhaps 30 feet above the ground and the plane fell like a stone, I did not have time to catch it and it pancaked onto the runway, breaking off the nose gear, bending the wings where the main gear attached, breaking the propellor and numerous other fittings, and leaving me completely unscathed. Pity really because otherwise it flew OK.
I had a good look over the ruins and decided that I could build another one in the time it would take to repair this one and just at the moment I was not in the mood, so I sold the wreck to a guy who intends to get it back flying, but hasn’t yet.
I loved the building experience, so that compensates for my very short flying time.
I bought another plane about 18 months ago.
In July I am going to the large aircraft convention at Oshkosh with Rick Frith, and one of my main goals is to check out what I may be able to build. We are then going to hire Harleys and go for a bit of a ride.
Thank-you Peter and Steve for the blog, you have done a great job.
Monday, January 18, 2010
News from Alan Hardcastle
Dear all,
The Blog is a terrific idea. Yes, Steve has done a great job in getting the year of 67 back in touch with each other.
Last January (2009) Ken (and wife Takako) Nichizu held a 60th birthday party at his home at Mount Pleasant (Wollongong) and a number of Old (elderly) Grammarians attended.....
Rob Armstrong writes in, July 09
Rob Armstrong in the surf at Tathra
Sorry this one got missed and just re-found (Steve P). From Rob Armstrong 1st July 09....Sunday, January 17, 2010
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)