February 17th - Cooks Garden Wanganui

It struck me as odd that the signage for our venue read "Cooks Garden".

Only because we were listening to Jim Mora's National Radioshow on the way, More FM of course being our station of choice usually - hehe, and there is apparently some debate in the world of punctuation (that sounds like a nice place to take a holiday) about the use, or misuse of the apostrophe.

In fact some punctuation anarchists are suggesting that the redundant apostrophe(')s use be stricken from the english language altogether.

Does the name suggest that the garden belongs to Cook?

Or is it some poetic description of a place where Garden's get cooked?

Don't let the name fool you, its not a garden, nor is it a winery.

It's a sports stadium with a running track and is home to the local rugby team.

Sometimes you have to find ways to fill your time waiting around for dinner or soundcheck etc...

Two members of the group have invented/discovered (?) a card game called Bum.

They've been playing it seems most every night and agreed to bet on the outcome of a 21 game stretch, with the loser made to do a naked run through the venue of the victors choice.

I'm told there was an overall draw after having made it to 10 all with one no contest.

Which essentially means no-one won and so mutual agreement was reached that both should suffer the humiliation of defeat.

Did I mention Cooks Garden has a running track?

I'll let your imagination do most of the work but to get you started, picture if you will two skinny pasty white musicians running the full 1,500 metre track, perhaps in slow motion to the Chariots of Fire theme.

There is video footage but some editing will need to be done to remove their apostrophes for safe viewing.

Cheers

Bobby.