Roverball 2005

After weeks of anticipation and costume preparation, for me anyway, Roverball was held at College Park Scout Hall and organised by Blackburn Rovers. We were able to get most of our Crew along, even Alex made an appearance. This years ball had a Rock and Roll theme so think Grease, Elvis, Poodle Skirts and most important of all – The Juke Box. Id even managed to bring bubble gum and had something resembling a milkshake with a straw to get right into the theme. Surprisingly pretty much everyone was in theme with the Blues Brothers, Austin Powers and Marilyn Munroe all making appearances, though it was Crew 64 which got all the prized for the best dressed. There was lots of dancing, though not much by us, and even a limbo competition. Well done to Blackburn for a great night.

Photos can be found Here and there are more on the Aesir Site

Anstey Hill Hike

What better to do on a cold wet day than go for a hike?? As a bit of practice for our trip to central Australia we thought a short hike up Anstey Hill would be in order, especially since I at least had never gone to our namesake hill. It also gave me an oppurtunity to look at the revegitation sites for a potential service activity. Daniel, Brendan and I went uphill and did a fairly large loop but by the time we’d reached the top it had started raining pretty heavily. Despite the rain it was a fairly nice walk but I'm sure the lookout would have been good if we could see further than a few meters in the surrounding fog. We didn’t hang around long at the lookout since the hum of the power lines in the gloom was a little unnerving.

Lawn Bowls

Alex organised for us to Play Lawn bowls on Sunday at the Clearview Lawn bowls club (think Footy club but astro turf instead of an oval). Seven of us managed to get there with various attempts at flat-soled shoes for bowls, I took the ugg boot option. We were shown the basics starting with the little pictures each set of balls had to throwing the kitty, scoring and eventually how to bowl the bowls to curve the right way. We then started playing in pairs and swapped partners before playing a team game, girls VS Boys. There was some natural talent amongst us, Alex and Michael especially so they became our captains. Lachie and Alex’s friend Kat became our seconds and Brendan and I became the not so significant starters (so if we stuffed up it could be fixed by our following team members). After 3 games we decided a draw between the teams was a good place to finish. We then progressed to Norwood for free ice cream at the Baskin and Robbins Ice cream place at its official opening and met up with a few others and then went to Villanova’s for lunch. It was definitely an enjoyable morning, partly due to the really nice whether and party cos its not the most strenuous of sports, some of us would even consider playing socially during the week….

All Class, No Ass Boot

Aesir held their second Boot for Spiro, Matt Voller and some other guy called Alex who we eventually worked out was the one wearing the sheep pelvis on his head. This all class, no ass Boot party was held at their hall in Beaumont and even included a spa, which you may recognise from such memorable boot parties as B & B Boot and Triple J Boot. There was a small crowd, with Aaron's estimation of 50-75 people possibly exaggerated by seeing double or triple by the time we arrived. There were some good speeches and trophies and much drinking. We even managed to get Dougal and Aaron to do the broomstick spinning thing, Dougal just managing to roll over the broomstick and Aaron actually jumping over the broomstick but then falling down a hill. We eventually left after things started going down hill with the Viking helmet, may we never ever have to see it again, and went to the pancake kitchen for tea after following some fire engines for a while.