The Ladies Have Returned

[Dogdude]

76. Got an unrepaired torn cartilage in one knee - played another 20 or so years with that - and badly torn ligaments in one ankle that finally took me out of the game. Plus living with for the last ten years or so...

You may remember the Newtown basketball stadium in Wellington. Unfortunately it burnt down in 1999, so that may have happened while you were here. When I first played there it had an asphalt floor, like an outdoor netball court, so you didn't want to fall over! A sprung floor was installed later.

I'm originally from a farming town by the name of Feilding (and, yes, that's the correct spelling) near Palmerston North, about 160 kilometres north of Wellington, where I've been living for more that 40 years.

Time for the inevitable nonsense question..gosh, you live in New Zealand? Do you know my musician friend Gerry Paul? I know, it's not that small...

 

[veivoli]

Time for the inevitable nonsense question..gosh, you live in New Zealand? Do you know my musician friend Gerry Paul? I know, it's not that small...

There's one at every party. Ah, no. I don't move in those circles, and he lives 882 kilometres away, about a 10 1/2 hour drive according to Google.

Drifting off topic here, but in the "you can't make this stuff up" category, I was in the hotel bar in London around 1979. I saw someone with our company logo on their diary and said something along the lines of "you can't get away from them." After correcting his initial assumption that I was from the West Island, as we refer to Australia, he asked if I knew so-and-so. "Know her?" says I - "I share an office with her!" Turned out that he was at their wedding and asked to carry a message back with me, which I willingly did.

Back to basketball - normal service should now resume.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Yep, that's her.

I struggled with it too. It's hard to smile while you're pumping. That may be the first unsmiling Allie I've seen.