Status Update of VHR

Minutes of Canberra Fact-Finding Mission, July 19/20

Saturday, July 19
17.30 VHR and wingmen (A. Balbo, M. Teutsch) stop in at Goulburn to survey the local talent and the effects of Stage 7 water restrictions. Offers of "favours" in exchange for bottled water are accepted.
1915 Arrive Tilley's Lesbian Bar. After some initial resistance, various ladies with short-cropped hair, comfortable shoes and Nelson08 T-shirts are persuaded to "reconsider" their orientation, at least for the evening.
2100 Arrive Front Cafe for Mid Life Crisis Party. VHR appraised talent as "not bad for Canberra on a winter evening". Various minions from Foreign Affairs, Treasury and the Attorney General's Dept attempt a series of approaches, introducing VHR to basic public sector romance speak. VHR eventually settles for an EL2 with a house in Braddon and excellent prospects of an SES poition in a couple of years. A. Balbo issues standard SCW paternal indemnity kit.
2300 A. Balbo declares Bloody Mary to be a "poofter's drink", starts fight when bar staff refuse to serve Bundaberg, allegedly enquiring "Do you know we I f#cking are?"
2305 Bar staff sign statutory declarations denying the incident took place.

Sunday, July 20
1140 Wingmen gather for a briefing session at Pizazz Cafe, Kingston. A. Balbo registers a complaints of "taking too many for the team". Working committee resolves that future visits to the ACT will require a larger squad.
1430 Viewing of Comrade's wedding video. Playmaker's speech downgraded from "brave effort, but worst best man speech ever" to "brave effort, but worst speech ever".
1625 Under urgings from M. Teutsch that "it's not safe to spend more than 24 hours in this town", the red rocket heads north.

Yours briefly,
Comrade.