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-=====Editorial - Our Magazine.=====
-By and large, our Club magazine will be about as good as members and prospective members like to make it. Unlike commercial magazines, we rely entirely on ourselves, the readers, to supply the contributions. On this basis, it goes without saying that the more effort that we, as a whole, put into it, the more enjoyment we will all get out of it. Undoubtedly, there is talent in the Club which has not yet been tapped.
+=====Bold Wozziborn.=====
-Naturally, interesting and well-written material has the most appeal. But ours is a Club of bushwalkers, not journalists, so don't get the idea that your literary talents might not be up to standard - give it a bash and you might even surprise yourself with the results; and the second time always comes easier than the first!
+(Tune: Bill Brink). Dot Butler.
-To provide some sort of guidance, the Editor lists below the types of contributions for which the magazine hungers. The list is by no means exhaustive - you probably have ideas too, so let's have them.
+There once was a walker called Why Wozziborn\\
-(a) Accounts of bushwalking, climbing, ski touring etc. trips. (Now and again an overseas setting adds the sprice of variety. Don't forget that a map or a cartoon sketch makes these accounts more interesting).
+Who dreamt about climbing from night until morn;\\
+He'd take his friends climbing, the old and the new,\\
+He'd even take charlies who hadn't a clue.
-(b) Bushwalking fiction, fantasy and philosophy.
+On his first canyon trip a brash newcomer came -\\
+His climbing was poor and he abseiled the same,\\
+He used every gadget both shining and new\\
+To show off the fact that he hadn't a clue.
-(c) Letters to the Editor. (These can be really stimulating!)
+When it came to long abseils this lad had a toy
+Which he'd haul out all smiling with oodles of joy;\\
+Chrome-plated and polished, it gleamed in the sun,\\
+Cooling-fins bristling and weighing a ton -
-(d) Cartoons with a bushwaiking flavour.
+In wait for an abseil - a descent from the skies -\\
+"Pipeclay's descendeur" was the name of this prize.\\
+It hung at his belt in his gleaming array\\
+Lurking for nylon to melt down and fray.
-(e) General articles on topics that would appeal to bushwalking types.
+Steep Davies Canyon has many a spot\\
+For a mighty beaut abseil with quite a long drop\\
+And the swivel-necked swamp-bits all jostle to see\\
+The climbers who gamble with death for no fee.
-(f) Snippets of current gossip and happenings for the "One More Month" series. (Editor to collect those by special request of the author.)
+Now our lad, having come to a strenuous climb,\\
+Adjusted his brain-child around his lifeline,\\
+Flipped off the rope ends, checked the belay,\\
+Gave a spring downward and hurtled away.
-(g) Contributions for a series called something like "The Trip I'll Never Forget". (This will be resurrected from your past and will be outstanding for adventure, misadventure, humour, heavy drama, novelty etc.)
+O how can I tell of the horror and pain\\
+Of that dreadful descent and his fall into shame\\
+For his britches did strip on the infernal device\\
+Which exposed his anatomy - let that suffice.
-(h) Profiles of personalities in the bushwalking movement.
+Down at the Club where the Bushwalkers go\\
+Whywozzi tells a story and he ought to know;\\
+He says down in Davies a climber resides\\
+Hanging from a frayed rope still held by his strides.
-(i) Poems, humourous verse, ditties, jokes etc.
-(j) Conservation items.
-(k) Outstanding material from other kindred magazines. (Please bring to Editor's attention).
-The normal deadline (every Editor's arch-enemy) is the Monday before Committee Meeting each month. Please deliver the goods personally to the Editor or post to the address on Page 1 and you will be in print.
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