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But I digress: That is not politics [Neil Heron said twice to me at our Christmas Party not to write about 'politics']. Mr Heron is the President - elect and I'm descending in the ranks [?] so I guess there's a message. I had been in fact wondering aloud about the hierarchy of Christmas lunch / dinner in various families [read: mine]. I meant about whose 'turn' it is / who brings what / family truces and the like, when the 'politics' remark invaded from left field. At that point travel was not an issue - we only had to get one brother here from Canberra - and we had Covid Normal...... Since Christmas Day I have heard various tales of the venue and attendees changing at short SHORT notice, so I think I am not alone. There is also a bifurcation of 'short' versus 'E X T E N D E D' lunches, a term I use loosely. 'Bonhomie' taken to extremes. The Prize for the 'Best Lunch' indeed encompasses an event that unfolded over several days and was not even decided until it happened. The Key Participants could have made a TV program from it. There are folks who, you see, blissfully sail along and leave a trail of carnage. [THREE alterations to firm plans in as many minutes]. Yet, when I bowled up briefly, without notice, to deliver something, Sherlock Holmes himself would not have detected anything out of the ordinary. A genteel couple like the above - described are Friends Worth Having. Well done you two. Happy New Year; what could possibly go wrong?  Ross Editor's Note: The views expressed in Ross column are his. He has the right to express them. In the same way I disagree with his introductory comments. For further explanation see the Letters section in The Age, 4 January.
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