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“The BCI convention on the Gold Coast, Australia was one of the best convention I attended. We sincerely appreciate Lindsay and Glenis’s hard work, they have set a very high standard for BCI conventions.”
—Helen Su, BCI Director, Taiwan
Lindsay and Les and team three was Tony, Jyoti and Budi. The idea was that all team members leave the room. One representative from each team came back in and started working on their respective trees, Gym- nosporia diversifolia. When Lindsay Bebb, acting as time keeper, called their time, they left and the next team members took over. They each had two turns at styling and then the entire team had 10 minutes more to finish off and pot the tree. Unfortunately it became obvious Lindsay found keeping time a chal- lenge to say the least! There was lots of fun with teams hiding tools on each other; one person cut the top off their tree but the next team member didn’t like that, so he wired it back on, resulting in a pseudo-graft. When the race was over, the audience voted for their favorite tree. Team 3 was the popular choice.” Jyoti Parekh adds, “Of course, the Team Relay event, with a cocktail of Australian and international delegates and some headliners, was an attempt to have an element
of surprise, suspense and every moment was joyous for all delegates, filled with fun.”
Saturday afternoon, Brook was back working on a Juniper procumbens, which he planted in a bonsai pot. Brook was assisted a by a competent Chinese team which included Ricky Wu, also known to our readers as Ng Shin Fat, as translator. Also on Saturday after- noon, Dr. Tom was back with the first of two Suiseki presentation which were held in the Stone Exhibition room, all reports indicate his presentations were very well received. Another jewelry workshop on Saturday afternoon was also well attended and lots of fun.
Left column, top to bottom;
The International Relay Team Challenge. Team one was Nikunj Parekh, Chris Di Nola and Poppy Englebrecht; team two was Lindsay Muirhead, Joe Morgan-Payler and Les Dowdell; team three, shown here claiming victory, was Tony Bebb, Jyoti Parekh and Budi Sulistyo.
Right column; Saturday afternoon, Brook was back working on a Juniper procumbens, assisted a by a competent Chinese team which included Ricky Wu as translator.
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