I HeartBeated yesterday re Ben Palmer being in hospital. Late last night I was talking with Ben’s Dad, our former Chairperson, Dave Palmer.

I filled Dave in a wee bit re how Servants is travelling at this time. Dave reminded me of a story I believe is worth sharing with you all. I cannot remember exactly when Dave was Chairperson – perhaps 2002/03? At that time we only had Carrical of course ….. available funds for essential purchases were somewhere in the realms of being non-existent …..  and we desperately needed new mattresses for resos. Dave had heard that there was a hard rubbish collection in the Box Hill area. Figuring that reasonable quality, thrown out mattresses were better than those some our resos were sleeping on we drove our wagons to Box Hill late one Sunday night to pick up the best 4 or 5 hard rubbish mattresses we could find!! I remember being pretty excited with our haul!! Whilst being in the tragic/comedic area of things it does show how far we have come in more recent years ….. and also the passion and drive that helped keep us afloat during some pretty traumatic years.

There are one or two other stories from this period of our history which equally demonstrate passion and drive …………… yet I find myself, oddly, too embarrassed and ashamed to share these with you all.