Andre Rieu So. Australian Group On TV
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FRIENDSHIP GROUP ON TV.
Community TV Station, 44 Adelaide Television has invited me to do an
interview on Thursday February 17, to advertise the first of this
year's
Friendship group meetings. The interview will be aired on channel 31
(analogue, 44 digital) at 7p.m. on Wednesday 23rd, repeated at 4 p.m.
Thursday 24th and 10 a.m. on Friday 25th.
Taking a staring role will be the Man himself (pictured above). I hope
I
can do André and our Members proud.
Our first meeting for 2011 is on Monday February 28, 12.30 - 2.30,
Director's Hotel, 247 Gouger Street, Adelaide For further information
contact me on lyndall.freeman@bigpond.com.
SOUTH MEETS WEST.
Rob {standing}, Mavis Hardwicke, Mildred, Terry
Cashin,
Libby Heinsohn-Deer and Malcolm Batsch)
On Tuesday February 1, Rob and I had the pleasure of welcoming to
Adelaide, Mildred Clarke, a member of the Western Australian
Friendship
Group. Mildred was on a one day stop over whilst on a cruise from
Western Australia, to Kangaroo Island, which is off the southern
coast
of South Australia.
After picking this lovely lady up at the Port, we brought her back to
our home for the day. Four of our SA group joined us for what was to
be
an absolutely enjoyable lunch and afternoon.
Mavis was decked out in her André t-shirt and wearing the badge she
wore
when she attended the Maastricht concerts with the WA group in 2009.
Mavis and Mildred
It was a casual lunch, to which everyone contributed and we were
kept
entertained for some hours by this amazing, spirited lady from the
West.
Mildred regaled us with stories about Maastricht, to which we
listened
with great envy and had us in fits of laughter with her many, varied
tales.
Even though Libby, Rob and I have been to Maastricht, we haven't had
the
good fortune of going to a concert there and I have to admit, it has
whetted our appetite to hopefully, one day, have the opportunity of
making the Pilgrimage.
Libby and Malcolm
It's always been my motto that as members of the AR Family, "we come
as
strangers and we leave as friends". This could not have been more
true.
Even though Mildred and I have communicated for a few years, until I
invited the others to join us for lunch, they had never even heard of
her, yet within minutes it was as though we had all known each other
forever.
Lyndall has joined the others
As the afternoon drew to a close, all but Libby had left. We retired
to
the "André room", where we spent the rest of the day watching "Roses
of
the South" and finished the luncheon left overs for dinner. We bid
Libby
goodbye and after a couple of hours of t.v., we headed back to the
Port
to say farewell to our most welcomed guest.
In May, we will welcome back to Adelaide other members of the WA
Group,
who are coming here for the first 2 Aussie concerts.
I can't finish this, without mentioning the tragedies that have beset
this beautiful country of ours. We have been ravaged by floods,
cyclone
and bush fires. So many have lost so much. To our friends in the U.S.
who
have been hit by such horrendous snow storms and Brazil, with their
floods and the damage and loss that has been wreaked. Our hearts, love
and thoughts go out to all who have suffered.
Lyndall and Robert Freeman
Beautiful is all i can say it never stops surprising me the way Andre' brings people together I love NSW but would'nt mind living in SA so I could join your friendship group, does anyone know how Nancy Farrell is doing;?