Capelin
Lynch 2016
Greetings all.
We’ve had another fulfilling and busy year.
Here’s a few memorable
moments .
Family moments
Steve Going
to the AFL with Jess and preferring to chat than watch the dismal performances.
Golf with Nick. Watching him hit like
a baseball player and somehow have a card with a score half mine. Not envious!
Andrea Playing
with Nick and Dim’s new dog Abbie; getting to know my brother Dave again when
he stayed for a couple of months to perform at QTC.
Good Friends Being lucky to have a circle of long term friends with whom
we share meals, laughs, stories, holidays, weekends away, good and hard times.
Let’s grow old together.
Holidays
Steve
PNG with MIck and friend
Gabrielle. Where to start? Stepping on to New Ireland where my great grandparents
landed in 1880. Pinching a 150 year old brick each as souvenirs. Finding Mt
Hagen clothed in razor wire on the one hand and being adopted by locals on the
other. Memorable.
Spending time with cousins Rita and Vince in Kalamunda, Perth as part
of our WA trip. Freezing in our hired campervan as we experienced the coldest
October in the west in 30 years.
Andrea Palm Cove and Cairns in July for a “girls
holiday” with Mally and Lindy. The Indigenous Art Fair was wonderful.
WA in Oct- seeing the amazing variety of wildflowers in WA and being
shown around Fremantle by a knowledgeable local, Margo O’Byrne. Meeting Sarah
Drummond author of “The Sound” at Broke Inlet was another highlight.
Family history discovery.
Steve
This was the house next door. On arrival in 1881 the 250 Italians
escaping from the disastrous attempt to establish a colony in PNG were housed in a hall in the Domain, Sydney. This hall (Agricultural Hall) was fifty
metres away from this amazing building. It was the Garden Palace built to house the 1879 Sydney International
Expo. It burnt down in 1882. The Agricultural Hall then became the collection
point for all things technical and historic and was the precursor to the Sydney
Powerhouse Museum.
Andrea
Still exploring the living relatives so not yet up to the dead ones.
Books.
Steve Rereading
David Malouf’s “12 Edmonstone Street.” Realised it was actually about the notion of
memory and family rather than a simple memoir. Inspired me to write about my mother and her
collection of wildflowers from 1946. http://mymissinglife.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/wildflower-dreams-seventy-year-story.html
Andrea Discovering
Randolph Stow (“The Merry-Go-Round in the
Sea”), a Western Australian writer whom Tim Winton credits as his
inspiration. Loved reading “The Sound”
(Sarah Drummond) set in WA.
Music
Steve Gareth
Liddiard (The Drones) acoustic version of TAMAN SHUD at Mullum Music Festival
“Thud
thud my heart pumps blood
Whenever someone talks about my Taman Shud
Who ditched that fox-gloved snitch?
Loaded him with poison like a puffer fish”
Whenever someone talks about my Taman Shud
Who ditched that fox-gloved snitch?
Loaded him with poison like a puffer fish”
You had to
be there. And I was.
Andrea Happening
on the local ukulele club playing “Hallelujah”
in a nearby café on the night that Leonard Cohen died.
Lets get physical
Steve Kept
swimming. Took up pilates. Played a
weekly round of golf with mates Denis and Nev. Outcome: everything between
despair and elation. More of the former. We’re improving. Indicator: less
cursing.
Andrea Continuing
to go to aqua aerobics and deep water running where the jaw and
tongue get a good workout as the women share their lives.
Favourite swim
Steve Dawn
Fraser Harbor Pool, Balmain, Sydney with Nick Fury. Freezing.
Andrea Cold
water swim at Stradbroke Island in August.
Moments of sadness
Andrea’s Uncle
Kent – an elder and missed
Steve Gahan –
eldest cousin on my father’s side. A much loved bloke. Missed.
Death of Derek
Ives – so talented, so young.
RIP Patch (1994-2016). Buried under a pile of
wood in the backyard.
With 2017 beckoning we
wish you a peaceful Xmas break and everything you hope for next year.
Love Andrea and Steve
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