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On Saturday, we had all gathered in the studio for a planning session and rehearsal for the new album. Phil had invited several others, DonWalker and Ian Moss (ex-Cold Chisel), I had invited Mike Franz, and Mary Beth had invited Chrissy Amphlette. Don had brought his Yamaha DX7 synthesizer and a Yamaha Clavinova electronic piano, Ian had a Fender amp and two of his guitars and Mike had a Yamaha stage organ. After a bit of shuffling equipment around, we had room for everyone; although we were running out of channels on our mixer. Mary Beth made a note to make sure we had a sound system with at least forty-eight channels for our gigs, and some additional foldback speakers and microphones.

After making sure introductions were made, Mary Beth told us that George Young and Harry Vanda would be around to see and hear us in the middle of the afternoon; so it would be good to have something ready for them by then. Phil then outlined the ‘concept’ for the album.

“We’ve got a title, ‘The Last Wave of Summer’,” he said. “To set the scene, imagine it’s the end of January, and you’ve spent the last four weeks of your summer holidays at some beach place on the NSW North Coast, swimming, surfing, relaxing. Maybe you’ve hooked up with someone at the local surf club dances, but ... it’s almost time to head back to Sydney for the start of the next school year. You’re standing on the sand, looking out at the waves; the sun is setting behind you. Do you swim out, catch one last wave? You need to get ready for the final dance of the summer at the surf club, some hot shot group from Sydney is playing, and you want to meet up with the person you met the other night.”

“Sounds good to me, Mate,” Don said. “So, what are we looking at for the album? Covers? Original songs?”

“A mix of both, I think,” I said. “Maybe we start out with two originals, the title track, and another that Paul has written. Then we have the remainder of the first record, and half of the second – it’s going to be a double album, by the way – as if it’s a live performance at this surf club dance, then there are two tracks the others have written to finish it off.”

“I like the concept,” Mike said. “I guess you’ve already got the album cover designed?”

“Yeah, my artist friend Georgina and I have got a concept,” Lisa said. “Here’s a mock-up, some rough sketches to give the idea. For the actual album, those drawings will be replaced by photos, but you should be able to see what we’re planning.”

She spread the mock-ups out on the table, and we all gathered around.

“Damn, they are great drawings,” Chrissy said. “Those aren’t ‘rough sketches’, Lisa, they are really good, evocative pictures. I can almost feel the sand between my toes!”

“Now, for the first track of the ‘live’ portion,” Ian said, “do you guys still open your sets with ‘Time is Tight’, then into ‘Good Times’? What if we did that, but at the end of ‘Time is Tight’, Will, you go through and introduce all of us? Then we can blast into ‘Good Times’. We should finish that pseudo-live set – well, it’s not really a set, but you know what I mean – finish off with Jackson Browne’s ‘Load Out’ and ‘Stay’. When you and Chrissy sang that, it was terrific.”

“Sounds like that might work,” I said. “How about we start with ‘Time is Tight’; Mike, Don, you know that, I assume? Between the three of us we can work out an arrangement where the three of us are playing together. Ian, you can follow what Phil does. Now, how will we do ‘Good Times’?”

We worked out arrangements for the two songs, and decided to give it a try. Mary Beth had a tape cued up to record; we all took our places, and I looked around, making sure everyone was ready. I told the others just how we indicated when we would conclude the final ‘verse’, and I started the opening chords. I looked across at Mike, he was following my lead, as was Don. It sounded impressive, the three organs, all in sync. Phil then picked out the main lead, Ian following him; Garry and Tracy came in with the rhythm.

We all managed to keep it together, play in time, everyone followed the signs I was making. When I was about to segue into ‘Good Times’, I pulled the microphone close to me, and started to introduce the band.

“Welcome everyone, to tonight’s final performance for the summer. We are The Roberttones and Friends, let me introduce the members of the band. On lead guitars, Phil Jones and Ian Moss.”

As I said their names, they each took a step forward, and played a simple lick.

“On rhythm guitars, Garry Lewis and Tracy Mann. Bass is Andrew Wilson.”

Garry and Tracy together played the main chord progression of ‘Time is Tight’; Andrew played a rather hot bass lick.

“On drums and percussion, Bruce Wilson, Rachel Wilson and Stewie Clarke”

They played a pretty cool drum break.

“Horns, we have Paul Winters, Mandy Wilson and Fiona Shaw.”

More solos.

“Electric violin, and vocals, Allison Thornton.”

She made her fiddle growl and wail, I never thought that a violin could sound so hot and wild.

“Vocals, Traci Lowe and Chrissy Amphlette. And on keyboards, Don Walker and Mike Franz, and I’m Will Morris, keyboard, guitar and vocals.”

After Mike and Don both played some pretty funky sounding chord progressions, it was time to lead into the next song. I moved from my keyboard seat, strapped on my guitar, and stood next to Chrissy at the mike.

“Now, is everybody ready to have a GOOD TIME?”

Phil and I combined for the introduction, then it was time to sing.

Everybody shake
Everybody groove
Everybody shake

Mary, Mary, you’re on my mind
The folks are gone and the place’ll be mine
Mary, Mary, wanna be with you

And this is what I’m gonna do
I’m gonna put a call to you
‘Cause I feel good tonight
And everything’s gonna be right, right, right

Chrissy joined in for the chorus, her arm around my shoulders.

I’m gonna have a good time tonight
Rock and roll music gonna play all night
Come on, baby, it won’t take long
Only take a minute just to sing my song

We worked through the rest of the song; the new people seemed to pick things up pretty quickly. I thought the two songs sounded pretty good; of course some more practice together, getting our timings right, and tweaking the arrangement would improve things. Mike then suggested we do ‘Black Magic Woman’, at least as a song to get us more accustomed to playing together.

“Mike, do you want to take the lead?” Phil said. “Vocals? You or Will?”

“We’ll do it the way we did the other month,” Mike said. “Will can sing, he’s much better at holding a tune than I am.”

“Okay, Mate, count us in, you can take the organ lead,” I said.

We played that song, and a few more; some of the new ones that had been written, they were starting to sound somewhat presentable. As we were taking a break, George and Harry arrived, to see how things were sounding.

“Fuck! You’ve got a fucking symphony orchestra up on the stage,” George said, when he saw the number of people we had. “We’re going to need a bigger mixing desk, Mary Beth!”

“I think forty-eight channels should be enough, but if you have a bigger one, then we can get more mikes up on the drum kits and percussion,” she said. “We can work on the logistics later.”

We told George and Harry what our thoughts for the album were; almost as if we would be telling the story of a person’s last day – or night – at some beach holiday. They were interested in hearing what we had on tape so far, so Mary Beth played back the recording of what we had played earlier in the afternoon.

“That’s a good, big sound,” Harry said. “We can play around with the arrangements, once you feel you’ve got things working properly. What do you think, Georgie?”

“That’s great with the extra keyboards, and Ian adding to the guitars. Have you tried ‘Call me the Breeze’ or ‘Bobby McGee’ yet? I’d like to hear them,” George said.

After a quick discussion on arrangements, we had Allison sing the lead on ‘Bobby McGee’, and then launched into ‘Call me the Breeze’; Phil, Ian and me sharing the lead breaks; Don taking the piano solo halfway through. This was probably currently one of our favourite numbers to perform; everyone had a chance to feature in a solo break.

“Even if we don’t have that on the album,” Ian said, “we should do that at all of our live gigs, that’s a real ball-tearer. It’s great fun playing it with all of you!”

“Does that mean you want to play live gigs with us, Mossy?” Phil asked him.

“Well, it’s not like I’m super busy at the moment, so if you guys don’t mind me hanging around, I’m more than happy to play with you for the next couple of months. What do you think, Don? You in?”

“Yeah, I love playing with you guys,” Don said. “There’s never any aggro, just great music.”

“Mike, are you in?” I asked him.

“Seriously? Shit, Mate, I’d give my right nut to play live with all of you,” he replied. “This is so much fun, there’s probably a law against it!”

“Chrissy?” I asked her. “Do you want to play live with us over the next few months? How does that fit in with your schedule?”

“I should be able to do it; we’ve just got back from another US tour, and the others are all feeling burnt out. I’m fine, playing with you really energises me; just give me the dates, and I’ll make sure I can fit in. Saturday arvos here are no problems, either.”

“And just so everyone knows, we’ve got several spare bedrooms here, right behind the studio, so staying overnight after rehearsal sessions, or when we get into the recording won’t be a problem. We don’t want anyone getting into an accident driving home if they are tired,” I said. “That’s why I had those rooms converted and fitted out.”

“Cool, I might take advantage of those on the days we stay late rehearsing,” Don said. “It’s a fair drive home from here, and being able to crash in one of the rooms here sounds good. Beat’s the hell out of crashing on the road home.”

We then played through ‘Bobby McGee’ again and as usual, Allison killed it; having the two extra keyboard players allowed me to concentrate on playing the Rhodes, Mike played the organ part at the climax, while Don was on his synth.

“Now, what we need to do is set some firm dates,” George said. “Mary Beth, can you check this with everyone’s schedules, but what if we aim for the first three weeks in November, from the 4th through to the 22nd for recording. We should be able to use your studio here; I’ll make sure we have a suitable mixing desk, and plenty of microphones. I’ll get Wheatley and the guys from the Masters to help with production. Now, I reckon we should easily sell three nights at the Ent Cent; I’ll tentatively book the 23rd to the 25th of February. Work on most of January and February doing gigs around Sydney, and up and down the coast; I’ll work with Fifa and Peter Jonas to come up with a list of venues. I think if we concentrate on Sydney, Wollongong, Gosford, Newcastle and places north; doing interstate tours will be too complicated given that there’s a million of you now. We could try Canberra and Wagga, they seem to do well; but Melbourne ... maybe in the middle of next year, we’ll see how things go. Does anyone have any other thoughts or ideas?”

We all thought that plan sounded good; Mary Beth put the dates up on our big white board. We then sat down with George and Harry to finalize the track listing for the album, They agreed with opening with the title track, ‘The Last Wave of Summer’, followed by ‘Stomping at the Surf Club’, an instrumental reminiscent of the early 1960’s surf music. They liked how we did ‘Time is Tight’, with the introductions, and suggested that they would be able to put in audience sounds in the final mix-down.

“We could make it sound like the album is at least part live,” Harry said. “I don’t think we’ll have a chance to do some live recording before the end of November.”

We continued on with the track listing; trying to make sure we had a balanced mix of covers and new songs. In the list of covers, we included ‘Bobby McGee’, the duet with Allison and me doing ‘Desperado’, ‘Black Magic Woman’, ‘Before You Accuse Me’, ‘Promised Land’, and ‘Load Out / Stay’; the last one to end out the simulated ‘live’ part. We still needed work on Garry’s ‘Long Drive Home’ and ‘Pacific Highway Blues’ songs, but that would be the final two songs on the album. Over the next month, Lisa and Georgina would work on the design of the album cover, George reminded Lisa that because it was a double album, she would have to allow for not just the front and back, but the inner ‘fold out’ section, plus the two inserts for each album sleeve.

We decided we would go ‘all out’ on not just the album, but touring both before and after the release, promoting the concept of ‘Roberttones and Friends’. Three nights at the Entertainment Centre would be a great way to finish off the summer; we would need to really build interest and excitement to fill that for the three nights. I just hoped that the touring wouldn’t be so full on that we didn’t have any time to relax and enjoy the places we were playing at, I still had bad memories of one of our earlier extensive tours in the tour bus where the air conditioning failed.

After the Computing I lecture on Monday morning, I was sitting at my desk, reviewing the final draft of the RFC for the Bootstrap Protocol, complete with the relay agent concept. My phone rang, so I put the papers to one side and answered it.

“Will? Alexa here, how are things going today?”

“Alexa, great to hear from you,” I said. “Just the usual Monday here; just finished giving one lecture, time to do some reading before afternoon classes.”

“Great, now I wanted to call you as soon as I could, to let you know that we will have to postpone our Friday lunchtime meeting this week,” she said. “I hate doing that; I really love our times together, talking, having lunch. But we are opening the first of the Nikolic’s produce distribution warehouses, in Rouse Hill. There’s an official event, with the local council, newspaper, and I really have to be there. So, we will have to keep our discussion of that Nostradamus Newsletter until next week.”

“Not a problem, Alexa, sounds like that official opening is pretty important,” I said. “That will give me time to do some more reading, more research into what is in that newsletter. I had a quick read of it over the weekend, and it seems really interesting, I will see if I can get a subscription for myself.”

We talked a little longer, and then I saw the ‘call waiting’ light flashing on my phone, so I told Alexa I had another call, but would see her Friday week.

“Will Morris,” I said, switching to the other call.

“Will, comrade, it’s Frank, Frank Walker here,” the caller said.

“Frank, great to hear from you.”

“I’ll get right to the point,” he said. “You know the Trades and Labor Council is having its Labor Day luncheon at the Sydney Town Hall next Monday?”

“Uh huh,” I made an affirmative sound.

“Well, John MacBean, the secretary asked me if I would ask you to lead the opening singing of ‘Solidarity Together’; apparently last year he tried to do it, forgot some of the words, and it was ... well, putting it bluntly, it was a shower of shit. I suggested that we get someone who is experienced at singing up on stage to do it, and your name came up.”

“Yeah, I’d love to do it,” I said. “What’s the details of the event?”

Frank gave me all the details, what time I would have to be there, that Lisa was invited too, and we would be sitting at one of the Left’s tables. It sounded fun; I would have to practice the song over the next few days; if last year it went terribly wrong, I wanted to make sure I made a good fist of it. It wasn’t hard to get a copy of the words; and the music, well, that was ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’. I should be able to pull off singing it a capella, although that evening at home, when I was practicing it, Garry suggested I take my acoustic guitar up on stage with me.

“Try finger picking a backing, like this,” he suggested, and then played the chord pattern. “It will help keep you in time, too.”

We practiced the song together several times; after the fifth time through I felt I had it pretty right. At least I shouldn’t forget the words, not like the person leading the singing last year. In between each practice, we talked about the upcoming album and touring.

“You know, it’s probably about time we had a decent review of our sets,” Garry said. “Mix things up a bit; maybe have a combination that would work for a three hour show.”

“Sounds like an idea,” I said. “We probably need to try to vary the intensity, for want of a better word, in the sets. We have a lot of solid blues / rock pieces, stuff that gets the crowd going. I think we need a few quieter ones; there’s the duet that Allison and I do, ‘Desperado’, I think we need a couple more like that.”

“Yeah, that one with you and Allison, that’s pretty amazing. I’ll try to think of two songs to bookend that one, maybe have you singing something softer. Songs where you can get all the young women in the audience to cream their panties...”

“Trust you to think of that!” I said, laughing.

I was thinking about that the next morning as I was driving into work, I had the FM radio in my car tuned to Triple-M FM, and as I was driving up through Darlinghurst from the end of the Cahill Expressway, they put on a Bob Seger track, ‘We’ve Got Tonight’. I like the piano introduction; chords on what sounded like a Rhodes, soft organ chords behind it; and slowly building into a powerful ballad. I thought it would be a good match for us; with the expanded group we had plenty of backing vocalists. As Garry had suggested, it could certainly make more than a few panties damp. I would see about getting the sheet music today. When I got into my office, I gave George a call at Alberts, bounced the idea off him.

“Yeah, you’ve be a killer on that, Will,” he said. “Some of the higher notes might be a stretch for your voice, but I bet we could come up with a good arrangement. Let me get the music, and I’ll come over on Saturday, we can kick it around.”

He called me a bit later, saying he had got a copy of the sheet music, a full arrangement, and I took the bus in to the city, picked up the copy, and got back to Uni for my afternoon classes. On the bus back to Kensington, I looked at the music; it wasn’t as complicated as I had feared; it might need to be transposed down a tone or two for my vocal range, but that wouldn’t be too hard to do. We would have to work out how to fit that into our sets, all I needed to do is find a second one to include in that group.

While I took my dinner break before my evening classes, I went through the list of all the songs we had played, seeing if I could find a suitable ‘second song’ for the ‘quieter song’ group. One that came to mind was Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’, I would dig the music out and see what we could do with that one. I thought we probably needed to completely reorder some of the others sets, too; we wanted to fit ‘Treat Her Right’, ‘Midnight Hour’ and ‘Mean Woman Blues’ in the one set together.

Over the next few evenings we kicked around some ideas on possible sets; I was concentrating on the second, middle set. I came up with a tentative list, ‘We’ve Got the Night’, ‘Desperado’, ‘Wonderful Tonight’, then Mossy and Don doing ‘Georgia’. After that, we could build up, ‘Black Magic Woman’, ‘Pacific Highway Blues’, ‘Treat Her Right’, ‘Midnight Hour’ and ‘Mean Woman Blues’ to finish out the set. I floated the idea past Garry, Fiona, and some of the others at home, they all felt it flowed well.

At the Saturday rehearsal, I discussed my proposed new set lists with the others, there seemed to be agreement on what I had drawn up. Ian and Don were initially reluctant to do their version of ‘Georgia’, saying they were just here to support us, not play their own music, but Phil told them that was ‘bullshit’, and everyone here was considered ‘part of the group, and should be able to play anything at our gigs’. When I started to play ‘We’ve Got Tonight’, Don suggested I play his Yamaha Clavinova stage piano, rather than the Rhodes.

“It has a more realistic piano sound,” he said. “It’s uses digital sampling to reproduce the sounds, not the tone bars that the Rhodes has. Give it a try.”

I sat and played the clav; it had a fantastic feel and touch, just like a ‘real’ piano, and the sound was much better. Plus, it could automatically transpose music as you played it; all you had to do was press the ‘Transpose’ button, then the root key that you wanted what you played to be transposed to. I was impressed by that – I could transpose things up or down any number of semi-tones at the touch of a button. The sound was very realistic, apparently Yamaha had sampled each note several times, each at a different ‘loudness’, as the force that a piano hammer would strike the string affected the harmonic content of the resulting note. I decided that I would have to get a clavinova for myself, and a visit to Venue music was in order.

We worked out an arrangement for ‘We’ve Got Tonight’, after a few times playing it through we thought it sounded good, and would fit into the set list that I had come up with. George made a few suggestions, mainly on how the backup vocals should sound, but he was pretty happy with it all.

“You can even hit those high notes without any problems, Will,” he said. “You seem to have a slightly higher range with your voice these days.”

“Maybe the vasectomy did do something for me,” I said. “Not that I’ll ever be a ‘castrati’, but. I can reach those higher notes without feeling that I am straining at all.”

Then it was back to working on the songs for the album; we put in about two hours solid practice before taking a break. Mark had come along with Chrissy, I asked if he wanted to play with us, but he told us that after their last tour of the US, he was ‘burnt out to buggery’, in his words.

“The tour, the gigs were all fantastic,” he said. “Five weeks around the north-east, upper mid-west and north-west, all sold out gigs. But doing thirty gigs in that time, travelling in a tour bus, it got to all of us after a while. I don’t know how Chrissy keeps going, she loves the pressure of touring, but for me, I was mentally fucked by the finish. I said I needed to take a few months off, just to get back to some type of normality!”

“You’re never normal at the best of times, Mark,” Chrissy said, teasing him.

“Yeah, well ... I can’t help it!” he said. “But thanks for the offer, Will, normally I would love playing with all of you, but...”

“No worries, as long as you know you are welcome at any time,” I said.

“Thanks, mate. By the way, Chrissy mentioned about you and Lisa, not able to have kids ... that really sucks, man. You two have my deepest sympathies, if that was me, I’d be gutted. You two are the nicest couple I know, and for that to happen; like I said, that really sucks big time.”

“Thanks for that, Mate. I guess it’s just one of those things that life deals to you, you can either accept it and get on with the rest of your life, or let it consume you, and never get past it.”

We continued on with the rehearsal, things were starting to sound better as we all became familiar with the new songs. Don, Ian, Mike and Chrissy all seemed to fit in well, even though it was rather crowded on the stage, musically we worked well together. Plus, we had firmed up the remaining two sets for our gigs; and had a choice of numbers for any encores.

Solidarity Forever

Labor Day, October 7th 1985

Being the long weekend, there was no sailing on Sunday; Lisa and I took the opportunity to sleep in, spending most of the morning in bed with Fiona. Eventually, after a combined shower, we surfaced for a late breakfast.

“So, what’s the story with this Trades and Labor Council lunch tomorrow?” Lisa asked me. “Who will be there?”

“Well, the first Monday in October is the traditional Labour Day holiday here in New South Wales. I guess it’s similar to the ‘May Day’ celebrations they have in many counties in Europe, often called ‘International Workers’ Day’. Originally, it was set up to commemorate workers getting the eight hour work day.”

“What was the cry? Eight hours to work, eight hours to play, Eight hours to sleep, and eight bob a day?” Lisa said.

“I think that was it, not too sure about the ‘eight bob a day’, though,” I said.

“Well, there are four ‘eights’ in that rhyme,” Fiona said. “A lot of old union buildings around the country had the intertwined ‘888’ symbol carved into the foundation stones, to celebrate that victory.”

“Anyway, there’ll be a bunch of speeches, various union and party officials will be there, and I’ve been asked to kick things off by singing ‘Solidarity Forever’, which is pretty much the world-wide anthem of the Union movement.”

“Cool! I guess that’s why you’ve been practicing with your acoustic guitar this week,” Lisa said.

“Yeah, I don’t want to screw it up; and given that most of the people there – at least most of the officials – are from the right of the party...”

“Why the right? That seems counter-intuitive to me,” Fiona said.

“It all goes back to the party split back in the 1950s, B. A. Santamaria, the DLP, and all that,” I said. “That was pretty much an anti-communist movement concentrated in Victoria; the main mover of it was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix. Mannix swung things to get Santamaria exempt from military service in World War Two. Anyway, Santamaria tried to influence a number of Victorian members of parliament, threatening to make sure they wouldn’t be re-elected if they didn’t make changes to legislation that Santamaria wanted. What were referred to as the ‘Groupers’ were blamed for Labor losing the 1954 Federal Election, and Santamaria and his followers were expelled from the party, and went on to form the DLP. Their intent was to have an ‘anti-communist’ workers party, but all they did was help the Liberals to stay in power, until 1972. The DLP eventually faded out in the mid-70s.

“What is interesting though is that the split was greatest in Victoria; and for many years after that, the left – in particular, the Socialist Left – was the ruling faction in the Victorian State Branch. In New South Wales, there really wasn’t a split, and the right wing unions – in particular the ‘Shoppies’ – the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees union, the Federated Clerk’s Union, the Federated Ironworkers’ Association, and one or two others - have pretty much been the power in NSW, dominating TLC elections and secretariat positions. Going back to when I was first involved, John Ducker of the FIA was Council Secretary, then Barrie Unsworth and now John MacBean, both with the ETU.

“I expect to see a bunch of the Right wing power brokers there; I’m sure they’ll be no love lost between us. I mean, I can’t see anyone starting a fight or anything as serious as that, but ... Anyway, when I said I would come, I also made sure there was an invitation for you; and I had to mention what union you are a member of; it’s the ‘Municipal Employees Union’ I guessed.”

“Just as well you got that right!” she said.

On Monday morning I loaded my amp, guitar, small gear back and a little fold-up wheeled dolly in the back of my car, and Lisa and I drove into the city. I parked underneath Town Hall House, entering the carpark from Kent Street, and we loaded my equipment on the dolly, took the elevator up to the street level, and found our way to the basement of the original Town Hall. I gave our names to the person at the registration desk; we got our name tags – “Will Morris – Musicians Union of Australia / Federated Australian University Staff Association”, Lisa’s was “Lisa Morris – Municipal Employees Union”. We were shown where our table was, and I was told how to get my equipment up on the stage.

We found our table, we were sitting with several others from the State ALP executive, much like the other week at the ‘Light on the Hill’ dinner. Once we had found our seats, I took my equipment up onto the stage; one of the facilities management people ran a 240 volt power cable out to where I was setting up my amp; there was already a mike that I could use to sing into. I asked if I could get a stool to sit on; one was bought out for me, and I adjusted the microphone stand, checked my guitar tuning, and then placed it into the guitar stand next to the amp. Everything was ready for me to sing.

More people started arriving; some of the others at our table – Neville and Jill Wran, Bob and Helena Carr, Frank and Marilyn Walker. We exchanged pleasantries; I avoided any alcoholic drinks; but got a large glass of lemon squash.

“I’m looking forward to hearing you leading the singing there Will,” Neville said. “That’s the trouble with most Trade Union meetings, they’re all pretty rubbish at singing, and since my throat operation, I’m the last person you want to listen to!”

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Harry, Jason’s great-grandfather was a rejuvenated man. He felt he was better than he had ever been. Jason invited him to spend some time with him in his house when his rehabilitation was completed. They visited with Cassius daily, starting with gym at the palace in the morning, he worked out with them on the machines, and he learned to fight as a bug. Harry decided he needed a vacation from his estate and decided to spend his time in Laomedeia, and would support Jason while he settled in...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 20 Janelle Tells The Truth

It took me a few minutes to fully wake up, even with the alarm radio going off. Ten a.m.? Why had I slept so late? I finally remembered, last night, actually, earlier this morning at Janelle’s place, we had decided to resume our relationship. I could have even stayed there, sleeping with her, but I would have felt a bit uncomfortable when we got up if Beth was around. I knew Janelle had said that her mother was happy, even encouraging us to get together, but I still felt a bit strange about...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 31 Presents

I picked Cathy up from her house just after 8:30; as she slid into seat she gave me a big, passionate kiss. “Where to first?” she asked. “I was thinking about Warriewood,” I replied, as we headed up Mona Vale road. “There are lots of places there, provided we don’t trespass on one of the market gardens.” We headed up a side street from McPherson Street, towards the Catholic girl’s school, “Mater Maria”. Being school holidays, the place was deserted, of course. We parked under a tree,...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 32 Another Year Ends

There was only another five weeks of classes before the end of the semester; well, before the study break that led into the exams that would be the end of the semester. We all found that time had a habit of shrinking; at the start of each semester, the end of the semester and the exams seemed so distant ... but before we realized it, there was only a matter of weeks left; and a pile of assignments and projects to complete. Having David, Claire and even Garry living next door made the study...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 42 University Ends

I had already planned my work schedule for my thesis; the date that the completed documents had to be submitted to the Faculty’s review committee were fixed, so I worked back from that date. I would have to work out the best way to produce the master copy of the thesis; I could always use Lori’s electric typewriter; but I thought it might be worthwhile playing around with the troff / nroff document processing software we had on the Unix system here. One of the PhD students was writing a...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 6 Getting an AllOver Tan

Thursday dawned clear and sunny, and promised to be another hot summer’s day. I decided to start with some laps of the pool before breakfast, and swam about forty laps – maybe half a kilometre – and went inside to eat. After breakfast, I grabbed the things that I would need for the day; towel, sun cream, some cold drinks, and lunch, and put them in my backpack. Around ten minutes before eight, I got on my bike, and headed towards Cathy’s place. I was full of apprehension; while the thought...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 47 Service NSW

When I woke up, I gathered some documents to show to John about how we would tackle the project. My main aim with today’s meeting was ‘project qualification’, that is, to get more details about John’s requirements, what were the key deliverables and results that he wanted to see, plus some feeling on what was he felt was a reasonable budget and timeframe for the project. I was also wanting to get some idea about how the project would run; what accommodation would be provided, would there be...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 4 Moving on Out

We woke up with the alarm; made love, had a shower together, then ate breakfast before we drove into Surry Hills and the recording studio. When we reached the studio; I parked at the side in the loading area, and went inside looking for George. We found him in the administration office, speaking with a brunette. “Hey, Will, good to see ya, Mate,” he said. “And this is...” he asked, looking at Lori. “You remember my girlfriend, Lori?” I said to him. “Of course, I remember now. Will, here’s...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 25 WTM Consulting

The lead up to the end of the semester was busy – really busy. Not only did we have to get ready for the contract with Alexa’s company, preparing the ‘Banksia Room’ as our computer staging area, tweaking the training notes from the university to suit the contract, but there were examinations to prepare for – not that I had any, the last two ‘Science and Society’ subjects had their assessments based on the assignments and class work. But I still had to vet the papers, make sure the questions...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 36 I Got You Babe

It was late on Saturday morning when I woke up, still feeling down in the dumps. I looked at the clock next to me bed; 9:30 am. I guessed Cathy would already be on the road; they wanted an early start, getting to Goulburn for lunch, and then on to Canberra by early afternoon. She hoped to get everything up in her dorm room before dinner time. I deliberately averted my eyes from the photo of her on my desk; the fact that it was Valentine’s Day didn’t make me feel any better. After a quick...

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Saving the Coven Royals Book 4Chapter 8 University

“If you’re going through a rough time, keep going until you reach the end. If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill “Hi Razza, I’ve hardly seen you guys for the last few days I’ve been so busy, I’m terribly sorry. What have you been doing?” Jason asked as they walked along on campus towards the information technology laboratory to speak to the professor. “We had a great time traveling around with your daughter and grandchildren. We all found Chuck and Chloe very...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 22 Off to the Race

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 33 Performances Part 2

After our early morning love-making, shower and breakfast, I dropped Cathy off at the bus stop. She wasn’t sure just how late she would be working, and I suggested that she let me know maybe 45 minutes before she was due to finish, and I could drive in and pick her up, to save dealing with the night time buses. At Mike’s, we started talking about the actual sets we would play. “We want to start off with something to really get them going,” Mike said. “Something to kick them in the balls, so...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 10 Party Party Party

Thursday night we were having a Thanksgiving dinner at Mary Beth’s suggestion; instead of a complete turkey, which would have been far too much food even for the seven of us, she had baked two large turkey breasts in the oven. Patrick had helped, making some traditional side dishes, a green bean casserole, and somehow he had found a source of candied yams. As we sat around the dinner table, Mary Beth spoke to us all. “Well, I know Thanksgiving isn’t really an Australian tradition, but it is...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 29 ChCh Changes

With the New Year’s Eve only a few days away, we spent the Saturday afternoon reviewing the set lists for that gig. We had been asked to play for a total of four hours – well, four fifty minute sets, with a ten minute break between them. Then at midnight, we would lead everyone in singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’, then play a final thirty minute set before calling it a night. It was going to be a pretty intense, tiring evening, and right after that we would have to travel to Gosford for the first...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 44 Unexpected Results

We pulled up in the car park for Lilianfels, it was more in Katoomba itself than Leura, close to Echo Point lookout and the Three Sisters. It wasn’t all that far from some of the other scenic lookouts over the Jamison Valley, or some fairly energetic walks, including the ‘Giant Stairway’, some 800 or so steps descending into the valley. There were some more leisurely walks, including one around the cliff top to the ‘scenic railway’, and Katoomba falls, or the other way to the Leura Cascades....

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 23 Welcome to Gresham Terrace

“Mr. Morris, glad to see you’re awake and back with us. I am Doctor David Pickett, and I’m one of the cardiologists here at the Prince of Wales hospital. I guess you’re wondering what it was that happened to you? First, I need to make sure you understand just how the human heart works; it’s basically a pump whose purpose is to circulate blood around the body.” I nodded; that was pretty basic human anatomy. “The blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the rest of the body, and also carries...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 34 Murder and Music

Lori was overjoyed to have us back home; as was Tracy. Even though we tried to be quiet, we woke them as we got into bed. Despite being tired, we made love, and then I slept soundly until nine in the morning. I would have preferred to have gone back to sleep, but I had to get across to the university to enrol. I grabbed a quick breakfast, got my organizer folder from the study, and drove across to the University. I parked behind the Electrical Engineering building, and went up to Professor...

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The Three Signs Book 0 Background

Series Introduction Praeludium The Guardians Report February, 1971 All of the senior Guardian Spirits who were responsible for watching over Australia were gathered in ... well, somewhere in a parallel dimension. Where they were wasn’t important, but the subject of their meeting was. They had gathered to discuss the findings from a major ‘data gathering’ exercise; what was essentially a survey of the subconscious opinions and views of all twelve and a half million people living in...

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The Three Signs Book 3 JanelleChapter 9 Engagement and

After a busy few weeks filled with gigs most nights of the week, it was back at University. The fibre optic installation was proceeding; there had been a few minor issues, but the company supplying and installing the cable had worked around them. The University – mainly through the School of Physics – had a long term relationship with Crown Corning; they had worked together on a number of projects, particularly in developing reliable connectors for their single mode fibre. The first set of...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 1 Joining the Australia Dream

“Hey, Will. Paul Ramos here,” the voice on the phone said. “I guess you’re at home at the moment, I called your office at the University, but that cute short girl in your office said you weren’t in over the summer break.” “Paul, comrade. Great to hear from you,” I replied. “No, I’m taking a couple of weeks off; we’ve got a bunch of gigs heading up to Christmas, and into January too. So, to what do I owe the pleasure?” “I’ve got a proposal I’d like to discuss with you; are you going to be...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 54 Reboot

The words that Mary Beth was saying to me somehow didn’t register, everything after the ‘she’s dead, Will ... she was drowned in the floodwaters’ was just noise. I understood what she told me, the troubling dreams I had experienced the night before made sense. There was a loud rushing in my head, and I was wracked with loud sobs. I was aware of Traci standing next to me, her arms around my shoulders, and Mary Beth was on the phone, talking to someone. “Let’s get you down to bed, Will,” Mary...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 10 Sweet Sixteen

I was half awake, and remembering that I was in Dianne’s old bedroom at Cathy’s place, I rolled over to look at the clock next to the bed. 5:30! Far too early to get up; but I needed to have a pee, so I quietly crept out of bed and into the hall, not wanting to disturb anyone. I tiptoed down the hallway, and tried to open the bathroom door quietly. Not being completely familiar with the house yet, I had already started to open the door when I remembered about the squeaky hinges. Oh well, too...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 39 Songs of Injustice

With the wedding out of the way, we got back into the work on the songs for the new album, as well as various gigs around the place. They were starting to take shape, but the real challenge was to ensure that the songs were musically as good as our previous work, and could stand alone as rock songs. We didn’t want the lyrics to be too ‘preachy’ and turn people off. There’s no point in making a protest song, if people don’t like it and refuse to listen to it. After my talk with Alonzo’s...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 16 Babies and Bullets

“It’s on,” Mary Beth said. “Their baby is on the way!” “Oh, I had better get up to the hospital then,” Mrs. White said. “Where should I put my case?” I showed Mrs. White where her bedroom would be; told her that this afternoon we would get the bed made with fresh sheets, and put some towels out for her. Mary Beth was ready to take her up to the hospital; I would clean the bedroom and make her bed with some fresh sheets. At least the room was ready for her when she returned from the...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 33 Summertime Tours

We spent the morning going over the ‘Sister Angela’ scenario with Lori; she wrote down all of the lines that we could recall, our descriptions of what happened overnight, even my rather sacrilegious thoughts on nun-fucking. While Megan and I would be out of town on the tour, Tracy and Lori would flesh out the story, even starting to write it. Around lunchtime some of the others returned home; Mary Beth was pleased to see us. She showed us the final schedule for the first country tour, we...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 7 Four in a Boat

The next day, Sunday, I spent time playing the piano and swimming in the pool. After dinner, I walked down to church; hoping Cathy would be there. I wasn’t disappointed; both she and David were there; David, of course, sitting with Gina. “How was your lunch?” I asked. “Not too bad,” Cathy replied. “But I kept thinking about what we may do tomorrow. Are you sure you are comfortable with being with the other two as well?” “Yes, but can we talk about it afterwards?” I said. “You don’t have to...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 38 Bicentennial Year ndash Part 2

For our visit to Brisbane for our week-long gig at Expo, most of the people were flying, leaving Sydney early on Saturday morning for the hour and a half flight to Brisbane. Lisa and I were taking the train, the XPT left Central at 2:40 pm on Friday, getting into the main station in Brisbane just before 5:00 am on Saturday. We had booked a sleeper cabin for the trip, and the return journey would leave Brisbane just before 6:00 am in the following Sunday, arriving at Central just after 8:00...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 11 Friends and Lovers

I was dreaming, I must have been, lying in my bed, when I felt a person slide under the sheets next to me. A hand slid over my mouth, and I heard a voice whisper in my ear. “Quiet, don’t make a noise,” she said. “I just want to lie next to you for a while, and feel our bodies together.” Lori? It couldn’t be her, but it certainly felt real; her body was pressed against my back, and I could feel her warm breath on my cheek. My buttocks were hard against her lower stomach. “Lori?” I started...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 7 Itrsquos Just a Casual Encounter

Don’t ask me what my name is I know what your game is It’s just a casual encounter It’s just a casual encounter It’s just a casual encounter Christina Amphlett & Mack McEntee Free Falling Late September, 1982 I landed with a hard thump on the ground, knocking all the air out of my lungs. I felt a stabbing pain in my shoulder, and then more pain as my foot slammed against the back wall of the house. I heard Lisa scream, and come running towards me. “Everyone! Help, please! Will’s...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 31 Second Semester

On the last day of July, we took Alonzo, Paul and Patrick to the airport. At least for Patrick and Wendy, it was only a temporary separation, he would be back in two weeks’ time; but for Ros it was a very tearful farewell. The five months before Alonzo was back for his sabbatical job teaching at the University would really drag out for her. Patrick said that one of his first projects would be to get a remote data link set up in our study going back to the office at St. Leonards, ostensibly so...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 2 Lori Finally

“Hi Lori, Will here,” I said when she answered. “Will Morris, where have you been these last four days?” she yelled down the phone line. “I’ve been worried sick about you; every time I called it was just that stupid machine, I even drove around to see if you were at home; your car was in the garage, but there was no answer. What have you been doing?” I told her briefly that on Monday morning, I had been hit by a car as I was crossing the street. I quickly told her that I hadn’t been badly...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 52 Developments in Canberra

Late December 1996 – January 1997 We had the big Christmas Day party at Banksia Lodge, much as we had done in previous years. My father again played ‘Santa Claus’, handing out presents to all the children present. On Boxing Day, we watched the televised start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, there were some impressive boats; a huge Reichel/Pugh maxi, owned by the head of the software company SAP. ‘Morning Glory’ was first out of the harbour, followed by ‘Condor of Currabubula’,...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 13 Lazy Days of Summer

Cathy and I had a late breakfast on Sunday morning; it was still overcast outside, and looked like there could be more rain later in the day. Actually, despite having slept together the whole night – just sleeping, too – our mood was a sombre as the weather. “I miss her already, you know,” Cathy said out of the blue. I didn’t have to ask Cathy who ‘her’ was; I was also feeling sad at not being able to be with Lori for the next few weeks. “Me too,” I said. “How come Janelle gets to go with...

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The Three Signs Book 3 JanelleChapter 7 The New Album Takes Shape

After the New Year’s Eve gig, we had a very lazy New Year’s Day. I think I slept in until close to noon; and did nothing that afternoon until Janelle came around just before dinner time. Or breakfast time for her ... stupid shift hours. We had time for a quickie, before she had to eat, and get ready for work. She promised that she would spend more time with me over the weekend. With the New Year’s gig out of the way, it was time to concentrate on the extensive schedule that Fifa had for us...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 17 Interviews

We pressed the intercom button, a voice answered and we said who we were and that we were there to see Bob Hudson to appear on his show. A minute later a man came to the door, unlocked it, and let us in. “G’day, I’m Marius, Bob’s producer. Come on in, you’re all a bit early, but we can go up to the studio,” he said. He led us up two flights of stairs, down a dimly lit corridor, and into the control room or the studio. The place looked like it was a dump, there were boxes piled in the...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 23 Senior High School

My lips were so close to Cathy’s; I could feel her breath on me. Her eyes looked directly into mine, and I felt a huge yearning. I was about to pull her to me, letting my lips lock on hers, wanting to feel her tongue against mine, when I stopped myself, realising what was happening. “Think, William Morris, use your head, don’t blindly rush in!” I heard a voice in my head. “Don’t you remember what you told yourself, what you told Lori? You know what will happen if you give in to your desires,...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 28 Towards the Final Exams

The August school holidays were only three weeks away; these were going to be the last break before the HSC exams at the end of October. At lunchtime one day, we were all discussing the plans we had for the two weeks off school. “Well, I’ll be going over all of the previous exam papers,” Cathy said. Some of the others groaned, called her ‘swot’. David wasn’t being anywhere near as studious as his sister; he had arranged to take a train up to the Gold Coast to renew his acquaintance with his...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 10 My Baby Just Cares For Me

We managed to get all of our stuff into the back of the car; but it meant all four of us had to squeeze into the front seat. We worked it out; Megan sat in the centre next to me, then Lori was on the outside, with Jillian on her lap. At least it didn’t take all that long to drive back to Mona Vale, where we dropped Megan and Jillian off with their bags, before heading to Lori’s place. On the drive back to Mona Vale Megan told us about her experiences with the publicity photo shoot yesterday...

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The Three Signs Book 3 JanelleChapter 6 Rockin The Antler

“I have no idea what’s got into my sister,” Mary Beth said as she sat across the table from me. Since this Monday would be the last time for over a month that Mary Beth and I would be able to have our regular lunch date, I had made a point of catching a bus into the city to meet her. Rather than eat at our usual location at the Quay, we had gone to a nice steakhouse in Phillip Street; just a short distance up from her office in Macquarie Street. It was going to be an expensive meal, but I...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 34 Farewells

I pulled up in the driveway of Jenny’s place, and knocked on the front door. Jenny answered; pulled me inside, wrapped her arms around me, and kissed me deeply, even before I had a chance to put my stuff down. When she finally released me, I asked her where I could hang up my clothes for the evening, and she led me down the hallway to her room. Hannah was waiting there; she was just wearing a long white tee shirt, sitting on the double bed with her legs curled up underneath her. “So, how...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 32 Party Games

After our overnight cruise to Castle Lagoon, we discussed where we might take our next cruise. One option was to go up to Lake Macquarie, we could go up for a few days at the start of the mid-semester break; I would have to be back in time to take the midday train to Canberra for my Labor Party policy steering committee meeting. But with some planning, we could sail up on the Friday afternoon, reach the Swansea bridge at high tide, spend the next three days exploring the lake, and return to...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 35 Hello CSE Goodbye Tommy

“Good morning, I am Doctor Will Morris,” I said to the assembled class. “I assume you are all here for subject 6.710, Introduction to Computer Engineering. If anyone is in the wrong place, I suggest now you leave quietly, and get to wherever it is you should be.” I looked around the lecture theatre, there were maybe two hundred and fifty people, none of whom looked like leaving. Most of them had been in the previous lecture, the introductory lecture for Computing 1A. The challenge we had...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 12 Changes in Foursomes

After the great Election Day results, Lisa and I had a fun day sailing; it was a Quartet Bowl race, our favourite. Lisa steered us to another win across the line; we were looking good for a first place in the series. On the way home, Lisa asked me what my thoughts were about Georgina. “You know she wants to sleep with us,” she said. “And both Fiona and I would like to sleep with her, too.” “I guess that’s two votes out of three in favour for it already,” I said. “No, that’s not how it...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 9 Watching the Yacht Race

I woke up early, feeling slightly disoriented until I realised where I was – in Cathy’s old bedroom, at the Parsons’s place, where she had slept until she took over Dianne’s room. It wasn’t yet six o’clock, and I could hear the sounds of the surf through the open window. Elsewhere in the house, all was quiet. I suspected Mr and Mrs Parsons would be sleeping in, and I didn’t know what time David returned, but I was well and truly asleep when he did. I was lying there, wondering whether to get...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 38 Epilogue

Monday morning was dismal, pouring with rain, and I was waiting to hear from Cathy. She should have arrived home last night, and I thought she would have called me then. Maybe she got in late, and was tired, I told myself. By mid-morning, I hadn’t heard anything, and I was going to call her, when I saw the mail arrive. There was a break in the persistent rain, so I walked down to the letter box to see what had arrived. There was a letter for me; in Cathy’s writing, postmarked from Wednesday....

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 36 University Third Year Part 1

I woke up refreshed and excited about the start of the new semester; once I had finished breakfast, and packed my notes and papers for the day’s lectures in my backpack, it was on my bike for the quick ride across to the campus. The first two sessions were the introductory lecture for Numerical Analysis, and a tutorial session; it looked to be pretty interesting (at least for a mathematics subject), the material that we would cover seemed quite interesting. The lecturer, Doctor Opie, appeared...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 9 Parks and Parties

The weeks leading up to the final exams were busy; not just studying for the two exams that I had, but helping Fiona get her internship report finished and ready for submission; last minute coaching for some of my students, and trying to fend off a potential war between some people at Sydney University and other participants in the AARNET project. Independent of the AARNET project, Sydney University had developed a simple store-and-forward network, but they wanted to use the country-level...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 28 Touring

There were several additions to the entourage; Robyn and Sally were coming, along with their two kids; and of course the other two young kids, Bruce and Rachel’s son, Robert, and Andrew and Mandy’s daughter, Debbie would be coming along. Given that all four kids were a bit over a year old, they really couldn’t be left behind, and neither Paul nor Phil wanted to be away from their wives and kids for the three weeks. I could see in the future organizing tours like this one would become more...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 4 Building Relationships

February saw life start to return to normal. Back at Uni, we started to prepare for the upcoming semester. Preliminary enrolment figures for Computing I indicated we would have slightly over three hundred full time students, and another sixty or so in the part time class. During the summer break another large room had been equipped with terminals connected to the Department’s PDP 11/70, which had also been upgraded with additional memory and disk storage. As well, another 11/40 had been...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 4 Photography

As Cathy and I had agreed, we spent the next few days apart. I did my piano grade exam practice for several hours each day, it was boring, but it had to be done. We did speak to each other every night to talk about the things we had done that day. The rain that had cleared on Monday afternoon had returned, so we would not have been able to do much outside anyway. Actually, thinking about it, may have led to more inside activities, including more of what we might discover in Cathy’s copy of...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 15 Partings

After the first month or so of school, memories of the summer holidays had faded quickly. The study workload had increased dramatically, and I was glad I had taken the time to set myself a strict program. With schoolwork, practice for my next piano grade exam, and rehearsals and playing at the Mirage, Friday nights were my only regular free time. After the blow-up with Katey Jackson, I didn’t bother going to the youth group meetings on Sunday nights, which gave me some time to get things...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 48 Winners and Losers

“Hey, Will, it’s Martin here,” the person on the phone said. “Just a reminder, it’s coming up time for your company’s Annual General Meeting, and there’s a few ideas I want to run past you.” He suggested it was time we appointed a ‘Board of Directors’, four or five people who I trusted to provide ‘corporate governance’ and review the major decisions of the company. “I assume at the moment, you’re pretty much running things by yourself, with input from Lisa, Michelle, Mary Beth?” he...

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