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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

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

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