Regardless of this faux pas, the company were delighted by the elegant dining room
and spacious balcony.
My Bestie, having been many things in her long career, has a wide and varied circle of friends. For example, in this photo there is: a high powered barrister, an ex member of parliament, the head of Creative Arts at one of Adelaide's most prestigious schools, a highly placed Business Manager in the Education Department's Finance Office ......and the owner and headliner of a local Strip Club. I'll let you decide which is which!!
Interestingly, the head of Creative Arts and the Strip Club manager had quite a lengthy and in depth conversation about the difficulties of getting modern youth to commit to something or give an impassioned performance.The night before all of this, Himself and I sat up until 5am preparing a slideshow which contained some rarely seen shots of The Bestie. Creative Arts lady had delivered a packet full of faded 1970s snaps on the Friday. You know the ones; mostly orange in colour and shaped like a crisp after it's been peeled off the page in one of those monstrous 'magnetic' photo albums that everyone had and that did so much damage to our photos. Himself re-shot every, single, faded image and loaded them all up digitally. In Photoshop, he pressed a button and voila!!! Instead of a bunch of ginger haired girls with jaundice, he got things like this:
Here is a taste of My Bestie though the years:
1961
Our house 1970-1
With parents circa 72?
High school graduate.
University Graduate.
Publicity shot for her first job.
First wedding. 
Honeymoon. Yes, he took her skiing and we all came too. No wonder that marriage was doomed.
Legs up to there! With her first hubbie outside my flat in Sydney.
Congratulations on 50 years Bestie. May you have many, many more!
