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Melbourne 1981

The large construction company FLUOR had tendered for the construction of a new coalmine in Central Queensland and had selected me as admninistration manager on their team. We drove down to Melbourne so that I could be "'fluorised" into the intricacies of their company policies. Shirley and I booked into the grand old Majestic Private Hotel on St Kilda Road which was just a skip and a jump from the FLUOR office. St Kilda Road was a bit of a Red Light district and I remember on my way to work I used to walk past a nightclub called "My Bare Lady". FLUOR did not win the coalmine job but held out hope for other assignments. Not being one to wait for things to happen, I bowed out and travelled north again. We had left our caravan at Noel's place at Caboolture with instructions to sell it if he could find a buyer. Just when we were ready to use it again, he send us a cheque in the mail with a note to say he had sold it, so we adopted Plan B and bought a tent.