uW's antipodean correspondent, like David Powell, has had Femme fatale's disguise is a paner select- ed as Article of Dur gain the Month for the FIG website. By john F Brock He has also been out and about meeting hile writing this article I arn less than a Harrison's No 1 on loan more of week away from leaving downunder to London's Greenwich Observatory recently allowed 's W travel to Cairo for the FIG Working Week the repliea of Harrison's chronometer No. l to be recnrd-breaking to be held there between 16th and 22nd April 2005. on loan to the Australian National Maritime Museum in . I just happen to be a sportsmen and My Cairo paper chosen as FIG article of Foundation Member of this world-class storehouse women, some of the month for the artifacts and history af sea exploration and .zhom are even I was somewhat stunned when the CEO of FIG I was particularly delighted to observe such a surveyors! Markku Yillikka notified me that the paper I had healthy interaction and trust between these two submitted for presentation at the upcoming superb historieal showpieces. Working Week in Egypt had been chosen as the FIG Article of the Month for March 2005. This recogni- On the harbour with three Olympians • john Brock is a tion of a high contribution to the Profession af Never let anyone tell you that surveyors do not Registered Surueyor Surveying was introduced in July 2003 to feature have a great life! Three days befare our dinner with ioorhing for "high-level papers from all over the world focusing Bill Brown (see below) my business partner Rod H. Ramsay & Co in on interesting topics to all surveyors." Fitzgerald and I tao k eight others with us an a 12 Parrarnatta, metre yacht around Sydney Harbour and we were Australia and is a TV Surveyors and femme fatales accompanied by three Australian Olympians for the sta/wart of FIG and I am always thoroughly delighted when I get to see trip. Daniel Collins won a bronze medal in the K2 its Permanent some of the very popular television series showing kayak class at Atlanta (996) folIowing this up with Institution for the same sort af surveying during the episode. Such a silver medal in Sydney in 2000 and fourth in Art and History of shows as "The X-Files" and "Stargate - SG1" are but Athens last year. Karen Gojnich had competed in Surueying, rwo such world renowned shows which have featured yachting at the 1988 and 2004 Games while surveyors in quite a bizarre fashion but I could scarce- Thomas Whalan was ane af our Athens 2004 Mens ly believe my own keen eyes when my brother pro- Water Polo players who finished ninth in the corn- cured a DYD collection of the show "Alias" starring petition. We later had dinner with these very fine that incrediby delish femme fatale Jennifer Garner. In young Australians at the Cruising Yacht Squadron one startling programme her character Sidney is where we noticed that our rather jovial and cheer- filmed carrying out some road surveying as a front for ful behaviour seemed to contravene the club's her surveillance which culminates in her locating and directives of abstinence from fun (obviously the "f" tracking the suspect security van and then leaving all word in that establishment !). of the equipment behind to abseil off the overhead bridge down onto the moving vehicle to cut her way Bill Brown's test jumper Yours tru/y untb through the roaf and throw out its occupants. Quite Towards the end of last year at a charity dinner Olyrnpiari peculiar but great stuff. Then just when I thought I Bob Linke and I bought the signed and framed Test yachtswoman Karen had experienced it all last Sunday night the new series jumper af Bill Brown who is the oldest living Test Gojnicb, af the "Battlefield Detectives" was premiered an . At another fund raising cricket Australian television an night on Friday March 11 last Bob and I donated the ABC and there they this splendid item of memorabilia to the Bradman were as large as GPS sta- Museum at its inaugural Official Dinner in the tions trudging around presence of the wonderful 92 year old legend hirn- the site of Napoleon's self who related some marvellous stories of playing insurrection at Waterloo cricket with the world's greatest cricketer "The our own James Don". The MC for the night was none other than Kavanagh and Danny one of our other great cricketing captains, Mark Schnurr! Congratula- Taylor who held the equal highest Australian Test tions boys - you did a score af 334 with Sir Donald Bradman until tremendously interesting Matthew Hayden bette red this total last year with job with your expert and 380 against Zimbabwe, By the way .~ -- most valuable analysis holds a Bachelor of Surveying Degree from the af this iconic battle- University af New South Wales just from where I f.. ground. also happened to graduate .

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