On the 24th November, 1992, Queen Elizabeth II referred to that year for her as an “annus horribilis”, which is a Latin phrase for a horrible year, and that is exactly how I would describe the events that have happened so far this year. Firstly, we had a severe drought coupled with strict water restrictions, followed by extreme heat which then turned to terrible and devastating bush fires, then came copious amounts of rain and NOW that terrible virus that has spread worldwide. It has been a travesty to say the least but together we will come out of all this doom and gloom – hopefully?? All of this that has never happened before has been so tragic and it has been a shock to all of us that we have ever witnessed in our lifetime. Reality has hit us hard......
.....but somehow, we are in a happier situation than some where we have this wonderful hobby that is home-based to keep our spirits up, whereas there are some people that need outside interests to keep them occupied and stimulated and being at home is only a chore for them. Just think how lovely our trees are going to be when this pandemic is hopefully over or controlled?
I will keep you up to date each month on what to do for your trees, so keep an eye on the “Handy Hints” to help you. I will do my best to help you out with whatever problem you have and most importantly so we all don’t lose momentum or interest with our trees.
Also,each newsletter I will be adding some interesting articles from our archives during our 50 years as a club and this will be called ‘Way back when….’. It is important that you know the amazing history of our club and I can say I am very proud to have been associated with Illawarra for a large part of it, (now that is giving my age away!!!!) Unfortunately, I am going to re-type all these articles as computers were not as popular in the very early days but this is a task that will be very important for you as members to know where we as a club came from and that you belong to.
I will also try to keep to our original planned program for the rest of the year so each month there will be an article and photos of the particular subject that was planned for that month, so you lucky people the first article this month will be on my other favourite subject of Suiseki. Please read it as it will be more interesting than you ever thought possible………trust me!!!
Brenda
.....but somehow, we are in a happier situation than some where we have this wonderful hobby that is home-based to keep our spirits up, whereas there are some people that need outside interests to keep them occupied and stimulated and being at home is only a chore for them. Just think how lovely our trees are going to be when this pandemic is hopefully over or controlled?
I will keep you up to date each month on what to do for your trees, so keep an eye on the “Handy Hints” to help you. I will do my best to help you out with whatever problem you have and most importantly so we all don’t lose momentum or interest with our trees.
Also,each newsletter I will be adding some interesting articles from our archives during our 50 years as a club and this will be called ‘Way back when….’. It is important that you know the amazing history of our club and I can say I am very proud to have been associated with Illawarra for a large part of it, (now that is giving my age away!!!!) Unfortunately, I am going to re-type all these articles as computers were not as popular in the very early days but this is a task that will be very important for you as members to know where we as a club came from and that you belong to.
I will also try to keep to our original planned program for the rest of the year so each month there will be an article and photos of the particular subject that was planned for that month, so you lucky people the first article this month will be on my other favourite subject of Suiseki. Please read it as it will be more interesting than you ever thought possible………trust me!!!
Brenda
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