G'day Dug,

I just ended up with too many other committments ... and the heat is really getting to me these days - Gulgong has been too hot to face for years, but I did make the previous two. I would have loved to have been at the Paterson - Lawson stoush - good reports all round.

BTW: There were quite a few of the Bolton tribe there - younger brother Brian and his wife Lyn and son Llewellyn ... and, I think, older brother Eric, all of whom now live in Dubbo to the west of Gulgong.

Regards,

Bob