Hey Keith, The time went so quickly, initially I didn't think I could say much because, like many, public speaking terrifies me, however once Colin got me going I was talking about things I hadn't intended & forgot those I was planning. I completely overlooked the comments which I have now found, so have included a response where possible. Thank you and all those who attended, great to see you all. Best...Adam 23:04:44 From Bill McCallum : He ends up being President of the US, which of course is ridiculously unlikely. (That was "The Simpsons" take on their episode about Trump) 23:06:32 From Steve Garlick : I remember the line with Shirley McLain “I like to watch” 23:12:35 From Steve Garlick : I think I can remember the stink bomb incident 23:12:58 From Steve Garlick : I recall that chant too! 23:13:38 From Paul Fookes : I remember the incident and the chant 23:13:46 From Morten Storaker : yes, miss robertson ? social studies class ? (so it didn't go unnoticed) 23:14:49 From Neale Morison : Business men, they drink my wine. 23:15:03 From Neale Morison : This appears to be happening now. The wine keeps disappearing. 23:15:45 From Steve Garlick : I used to go to Willoughby tip. Remember the incinerator designed by walter burley griffin 23:16:48 From Morten Storaker : that incinerator became a restaurant 23:16:49 From james : You were lucky re the tip , when we moved there is was a boring transfer station 23:17:23 From Steve Garlick : was it Malcolm Blunt? (No Malcolm Rich, though Malcolm Blunt took me on one of the best holidays of my youth, a cousin of his farm near Young, where we drove cars & tractors, well below legal age, drenched & castrated lambs, ate steak for breakfast & the one & only time I have seen a sheep slaughtered, something you don't forget - all over, a great life changing experience.) 23:17:42 From John Casey (he/him/his) : we used to go up the gully from Cammeray to the Artarmon tip (great that the tip was universally enjoyed) 23:19:09 From Steve Garlick : I recall still Peter Gilbertson dying around the same time 23:19:40 From Paul Fookes : We used to escape sport at Tunks Park by heading up the creek and through the Tip to Halstroms 23:19:49 From james : Now an amazing walk also climbed up the pillars of the suspension bridge I think with Brett Butler ? 23:19:59 From Bill McCallum : John, one time you and I and Paul Garrat went into the storm drain there and on the way out met some kids with an air gun on the way out and they shot Paul in the thigh. 23:21:03 From Bill McCallum : Actually that was Geoff Saunders now I come to think of it, not you. 23:21:18 From Neale Morison : I remember climbing up the rusty ladders inside those pylons on the bridge. Morten was in that gang, and I think Howard Crooks. The summit of the experience was attaining the sloping, precarious ledge outside at the top, covered in pigeon shit. 23:21:34 From John Casey (he/him/his) : Wow. Bill. I thought I had a memory like that, but didn't realise you were there with me. I couldn't remember who it was with!! 23:21:39 From Neale Morison : I told him, Julie don't go! No wonder he went. 23:21:48 From Neale Morison : I don't blame him for going 23:22:41 From Bill McCallum : Cammeray Rex 23:23:06 From Neale Morison : The San Miguel. Pool tables. (misspent youth,great fun, sometimes accompanied by driving with Morten at high speed in his Citroen CS, and gatherings at Dougs with Colin, Tim, Neale, Stephen etc in school time) 23:23:45 From Paul Fookes : We had the occasional geography lesson at the San 23:25:06 From Bill McCallum : Maybe it was you who shot Paul. 23:25:52 From Norman Matheson : We walked through the first 3 holes and then went home from golf at :Lane Cove course. (That was the form, good strategy) 23:26:05 From John Casey (he/him/his) : I deny shooting Paul. But I remember we were shot at.... 23:26:24 From Bill McCallum : I meant Adam. 23:26:58 From Ken Morrey : You were asking for trouble if you hung out with "Bub" Mitchell. (you're right, he was a bigger delinquent than me, good chap though) 23:29:32 From Bill McCallum : Ian? 23:29:44 From Tony : Mr Costello also taught geography. 23:29:47 From Paul Fookes : Ian Cochrane 23:32:44 From Paul Fookes : Gary Jones and I put up the ceiling in Steve's house in Rozelle. (he remembers) (Gary lived diagonally opposite to the rear of my house, we did photo processing together) 23:33:40 From pshel : Steve Satchell is a mathematical economist who had Isaac Newton's office at Cambridge Uni (Google: Stephen Satchell is a fellow of Trinity College and the reader in financial econometrics at Cambridge University. He is interested in finance and econometrics, and has written at least 150 papers in this area. He is an academic advisor to many leading asset management companies, and a frequent speaker at City conferences. sydney.edu.au › law › publications › stephen.satchell.pdf. There are 7 pages.) 23:35:56 From Neale Morison : Taxi driver territory (Yes, great movie, among others) 23:43:07 From Steve Garlick : cellblock theatre (Union Theatre) 3:44:34 From james : I feel our generation was so fortunate to travel when the world was so culturally diffrent , first visit to Hong Kong in 1981 , Hong Kong Harbour , the sanpans etc a couple of yeras ago visited again could be any same as city (Spent 10 days there 2 years ago, very different to my first visit in Feb 1974, but still interesting.) 23:45:33 From Norman Matheson : Bis malam, with roads full of pot holes? 23:52:06 From james : Mercury is horrid heavy metal , linked to many many medical problems , I assume mercury has. Been phased out , if so when 23:54:16 From james : I understand similar to lead , which off-coarse has been been banned from petrol 23:57:18 From Neale Morison : Adam, how did your son survive boarding school? There's a lot of conversation now about how damaging they have been to children. (He loved it, Gordonstoun is co-ed, very much based on outward bound principles and community service, it's not top flight academic but the kids seemed to come out as nice human beings) 00:02:04 From Paul Fookes : 70 in five years. OMG (yes, reality) 00:02:54 From james : This transition is so important , may we could have a morning on this topic 00:03:20 From Paul Fookes : That is true James 00:04:31 From Anthony : Must go. Thanks very much Adam 00:04:50 From Neale Morison : Walter Burley Griffin designed the incinerator. 00:04:53 From Bill Lyons : wonderful chat, Adam - so good to see you. I have to go sorry! Talk again soon I hope...Bill 00:06:08 From Bill McCallum : They kept burning the food 00:08:40 From Morten Storaker : Enjoyed this talk, thanks, have to go now, look forward to more of these. 00:08:45 From Neale Morison : I had amalgam fillings that lasted 50 years, until they began to fail spectacularly and my teeth started crumbling and dropping out. And I haven't gone mad from the mercury. At all. 00:09:26 From Norman Matheson : There was mercury available at NSBHS in the science labs. 00:09:33 From Alan Bensoussan : we'll be the judged of that Neale 00:09:46 From Tony : The ICI chemical plant at Botany used to lose about a tonne of mercury every year from the chlorine plant. (toxins affect everyone differently, I have patients in their 90's with a mouth full of it, who are so lucid it would put us to shame, on the other hand a biochemist patient of mine told me how someone broke a thermometer in one of their £20k incubators, they did everything to clean it but nothing would grow anymore & they had to scrap it. Mercury thermometers & barometers are now banned in the EU) 00:10:09 From Neale Morison : I remember them letting us play with mercury in science class at NSBHS. We discovered that you could coat a 2c coin in mercury, which made it look like a 10c coin. We could have all become millionaires passing off mercury 2c coins, but somehow the entrepreneurial spirit failed us. 00:13:07 From Neale Morison : The world is likely to be remote and isolated from now on, so we can retire wherever we like. As long as it has the Internet. Ideally better than NBN. 00:15:11 From Neale Morison : I guess QAnon, Hari Krishna, right wing extremist, it doesn't matter what crazy thing you believe in, once you've cut the umbilical cord to reality it's all arbitrary. 00:15:40 From Steve Garlick : which reality would that be 00:16:05 From Neale Morison : Thanks Steve. Obviously your reality. 00:16:34 From james : Re retiring I agree with you , I feel that summarises it well 00:16:35 From Adrian Graham : In Victoria that would be AFL and the Collingwood football club 00:16:49 From Paul Fookes : The Hari Krishna village in northern NSW is one of the most successful drug detox and rehab facilities in NSW. (as a branch of Hindu it has an enormous following, They do quite a lot of good charitable stuff, not a doomsday cult) 00:19:22 From Steve Garlick : oh shit, now you’re in trouble. I cut the umbilical chord to my reality a long time ago!!! 00:21:14 From Bill McCallum : I’ve used it to get out of speeding tickets (well done, hard to shmooze a camera though) 00:23:12 From Steve Garlick : Really enjoyed your conversation Adam, thank you. I have to go. 00:26:06 From james : Adam , many thanks for the life of an Australian dentist in London , great to hear these life stories , have to move on , all the best James 00:27:14 From Paul Fookes : Great morning. Thanks Adam and Colin 00:28:33 From Bill McCallum : Boys club (and a nice one) 00:28:34 From Neale Morison : Great. Thanks Adam and Colin. 00:28:59 From Tony : Thanks Adam. 00:29:02 From Alan Bensoussan : Thanks Adam, Colin 00:29:24 From Bill McCallum : Thanks Adam! 00:30:02 From John Casey (he/him/his) : Thanks Adam. That was wonderful (Thank you everyone)