All That Jazz

When we were at the "General Store" concert, there were flyers for a
wine and cheese night at the Monash University Student Union. Cliff
thought it might be a good night, so we went.

It was held on Friday 12th Sept at 7.30 p.m. At least that was what
I was told, when I enquired about the starting time but as it turned
out that was the time the doors opened. The actual performance didn't
start till 8.45 p.m. We went to the R.S.L as usual but got there
exactly at 6 p.m. ordered our tea and ate it and left by 7 p.m. to
get to the concert in time. When in actual fact because of the
'real' starting time we could have stayed for the raffle and played
the pokies as well. As we usually leave between 8 p.m. and 8.30 p.m.

Cliff has not been out to the Uni at all and it is 12 years since I
was last there. There are more student housing blocks. In my day
the Student Union was the last building before the car park, but now
there are three buildings between it and the car park!!

Also you no longer enter that car park from the Bibi Shell road, but
you now turn left at the first roundabout and go along the road at
the side of the Uni and there is a new entrance there to the car
park. I couldn't find it, but we were lucky and ran into a security
guard, who kindly told us to 'follow me' and he drove there and I
followed him.

The Student Union had a partition up which halved its size. So it
was a small room, with tables all set up, candles, cheese, water,
glasses, plates etc.

We went to the wine tasting table, but I know what I wanted, a sweet
white, and didn't bother with tasting other wines. Cliff had his
red wine as usual.

Our table was in the second row and after the music started we were
asked if we wanted to move up, but we said no. Personnaly I wanted
to move back a row as the band was LOUD. Too loud. It reminded me
of a rock band. In fact they were an old rock band and the first
half of the show was old rock songs! The second half ( 9.45 p.m.
till 10.45 p.m.) of the show were popular songs with a Jazz
treatment, but not really Jazz songs.

There were about 50 people there but at $40 a head that was not bad,
compared to the 80 people at the Tyres Hall at $20 a head.

Overall it wasn't too bad, just loud. The singer was Peter Coupples
who is the brother-in-law of Heather Coupples, who used to work at
ACCESS, which ran the GipsTAFE Writing Course before it was taken
over by Business Studies.

Heather and I caught up and I told her how badly the course is going
now.

There was only one other couple at our table, Grace and Ron. They
live in Warragul. He works in Traralgon and she is a nurse at a
Health Center in Warragul. I gave them 'our' business card and you
never know, they expressed an interest in books and one day they may
walk in as customers.