Monday

Today is Remembrance Day - when we remember those who fell and have been affected by War. A few of us at work did observe the Minute's Silence and reflection. Lest we forget. (It is amazing, though, that more people gathered to do The Melbourne Cup than Remembrance Day.) I didn't realised until much much later that it was also the anniversary of the Labor Government's ousting from power back in 1975.

Out on the town

Trivia tonight - and we were finally back to our usual team of six. And two of them (An and Ni) are celebrating birthdays this week! Sooz marked the occasion by baking a cake (banana) which we had at break time. That was, as it turned out, the highlight of the night - except, for me, being able to take a photograph of ... wait for it ... the top of an A4 paper box at the bar. I have been "looking after" a similar box-lid for our Community Officer at work, and each time she rings, I give her assurances that it is fine. (Those box lids are in huge demand as it turns out ... they're the perfect size for popping A4 flyers in for distribution.) I'll send her the photographs tomorrow of her box "out on the town". It should be good for a bit of a laugh.

It was a very slow game tonight ... the usual emcee, Craig, wasn't there, so we had Harry (aka Mumbles - but that's mainly because microphone is tuned to Craig's dulcet tones) and a female offsider. S...L...O...W... - yes, with capital letters. It was just as well Sooz had set Q&A to record before we left - it was closer to 10 by the time we finally arrived home.

The good news is that we were fairly reasonably placed this evening - not on the podium - but not far off either. There will be no post-mortem here ... but any of the others would be pleased to oblige. Even Sooz in the car on the way home was going through how we could have garnered enough extra points to put us over the line!

News of the devastation wrought by the typhoon in the Philippines continues - word is that 9 million people are affected, over 70% of homes in the path of the storm have been destroyed, and thousands have been killed. The scale of the aid effort is going to be enormous - but then, it will only touch the sides of the heartache and loss left in the typhoon's trail.