As promised

I promised you a photo of Harvestbird and I receiving our Meritorious Service awards from the union.  Thanks to local organiser Paul Corliss, who gave me a copy of the photo he took (and permission to post it here), I can finally fulfil that promise:

I think I’ve mentioned before that the union offices are in an old house on the edge of campus? What I don’t think I’ve told you is that, apart from the addition of a bit of office furniture, the interior of the house is still decorated exactly as it was when it was an actual residence, back in the late 1970s sometime. See those curtains in the background? We had curtains made of exactly the same fabric when I was a kid.  NZ was a strange and tasteless place back then…