Maroubra Bay High School ex-students, please got to: mbhs59.ning.com to see this information, re the 7th March, 2009 reunion, for all, properly!!

So register now - $125 p.p., : Electronic transfer (internet) to: Account name: * Helaine Solomon & Karol Brodaty * BSB No. 112-879 * Account Number: 465496456 (Your) receipt reference: Years attended and (both) names. (Reference example:, 59-63 "Louisa Katofski-Morton" i.e., first year-last year / first name / married name - previous name.) All M.B.H.S. ex-students, meet up again, March 7th, 2009 from 12.00 noon to 5.00 pm, in the Shannon Room, Australian Jockey Club, Randwick. MAP/location. The number attending must be limited to 500. Record of your payment is kept by the committee, electronically, after payment via the method described above. However, in addition, please record the fact that you've registered that way, in the EVENTS section,("rsvp"), at mbhs59.ning.com, as well, please!

	Reminder: The number attending must be limited to 500. Do register now!. The 2003 reunion was great! An impression here!
John Fredericks, taught us French. Freddo, the Frog was what students called him. A kind man, as I recall.	Please DO add any news about what you're doing and any memorabilia that didn't make it to the 2003 reunion. Jo M. (Ozcloggie)
	ADD YOUR PHOTO to your profile, at mbhs59.ning.com, please. It helps to make for a great-looking badge to spread around the internet and round-up all the ex-MBHSers, where-ever they are!
ADD your story: WHAT YOU'RE DOING NOW. What you did THEN! ....to your BLOG,, on your PAGE, Once again, I shall collect pictures (via mbhs59.ning.com) to display, at the reunion. Help me collect them via this site or email, please.

Some great perspectives on the Dutch and their surroundings.

Dr Klaas Woldring, president of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, which is based in Smithfield, NSW, reported back, on a most interesting evening, Monday, 11 June, 2008.

He wrote:

Electric cars are here already.

Last night the Dutch Australian community groups had the great pleasure to listen to guest speaker Mr. Roy Leembruggen,in the Chatswood RSL.

Veteran Leembruggen, a third generation Dutch migrant, was in the news recently as the engineer who designed Sydney's revlutionary first double decker trains. While the first part of the talk was about the great advantages of double decker trains the second part was even more interesting.

It sketched the development of no less than 26 types of electric cars, buses and trolley buses, here in Sydney, and revealed the massive environmental advantages of such transport. Apart from the buses he also provided graphic design evidence of the Townmobil, for four or six persons, which leaves all petrol driven vehicles for dead in view of the rapidly increasingly petrol prices.

Has Mr. Rudd availed himself of the Leembruggen electric car designs?

If he wants promote Green cars the answer is right here.

If the current lead batteries are going to be replaced by superior types, providing twice the capacity for the same weight and cost, a strong likelihood, the future of electric transport is beyond question.
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Would have been good to hear Mr Leembruggen speak.

Is Bondi Beach, any more beautiful than, say, Manly, or North Wollongong, or Nobbys, or any of the others?
Is there a difference between the people who live on the Manly side of the harbour, and those who live on the Bondi side?
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You’d think I’d be biased towards Bondi but I have always taken my task of reporting on what I saw and was shown, during that competition seriously and no matter how beautiful Bondi Beach might be, the people who had nominated Manly Beach that year, had pulled out all stops!
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Read on......here.....

Jo (Ozcloggie)

Yes! That IS oil paint he's been sniffing!


Remi (my kitten and I, are into painting and we like telling the world about it, through: RedBubble
Please take a lookHERE!