December 2016
ing surf. At Beachport, the Bompas
Hotel provided a delightful lunch and
the prizes for the Observation Run
were distributed. Either the questions
were too easy or MGCCSA members
are brilliant (probably the latter) because the entries were of an impressively high standard. In the end Garry
and Jenice Chapman pipped everyone and walked off with a bottle of
Karratta Champagne and the spectacular MG Car Club meerket for brilliant observation skills.
After lunch, everyone made their way
back to Robe in their own time before
the main dinner at the Robe Hotel.
We’d arranged for the theme to be
‘Take it as Red’ and the room and
most of the diners were a riot of red.
Convener Gary was heard to wonder
whether he’d stumbled into a meeting
of the Communist Party. Again an
avalanche of prizes and the only possible winner of the Most Red Items
Award was Dennise Micklem who
confessed to well over 70 acts of redness, including, of course, all fingers
and toes. The rules had been that
whoever claimed the biggest number
of red items had to submit to a full
intimate inspection. Fortunately for
Dennise it was very clear that no one
was going to come close so she was
a comfortable winner. Roger Dawe
was awarded a special prize. Nerida
informed him, after we’d all sat down,
that he’d buttoned up his shirt unevenly. So as not to cause an uproar,
Roger walked out of the hotel and
undid his shirt, out on the street, only
to receive a couple of interesting of17