MG Motoring 2016 | Page 19

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