President Peter's Ponderings For This Month

‘Ayubowan’ - (May you live long)

‘Thank you’ to Vice President Pat Davies for keeping the Club running in my absence.

Jill and I are back after a small group tour of amazing Sri Lanka. It was culturally and historically

enlightening and was complemented by several game drives observing in particular the indigenous leopards

and elephants (that’s me in the back practicing my regal thumbs-up)!

Visualise an island the size of Tasmania with 22 million inhabitants!

Despite more than 25 years of civil war, COVID and then bankruptcy there was clear evidence of the tables

being turned with significant investment in both infrastructure and high-end tourism resorts.

On the home front, planning for the Christmas lunch will be on our next Committee agenda with the view to publicising it in the November Newsletter.

Get Away #2 for 2026 is now formally launched and covered by a stand-alone article on pages 6

Peter Gibbs

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