last Friday I attended a gathering of Papua New Guinea expatriates. There were about 50 of us and there was lots of reminiscing of our times there. We had a nice lunch and a listened to a visiting speaker named Eric McCrum. Eric features regularly on ABC radio as The Bird Man and is very knowledgeable about Australian birds.
He was invited to do a presentation about his time in Papua New Guinea. His presentation was an old fashioned slide show with his commentary. I thought that it was a well practised package he had used many times before, probably at senior citizens’ gatherings or schools. It was like preaching to the converted as all of us had spent time in PNG. I noticed a few people turning off and a couple of oldies having a bit of shuteye. Never-the-less, it was worthwhile as there were some familiar scenes in the 100+ slides that just about everyone would have remembered. All in all, a good day where I met and talked with a few people I had not met before.
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