By Jeremy Lister, Age 10
Recently Dad has been in Brisbane for work. He would normally stay in his room at parliament but that area of parliament is under maintenance. So he’s been staying at the united services club which is a club for apparently anyone who wants to join but mostly veterans. Dad has recently become a member and a couple of days ago he invited us to stay with him at the united service club for one night which we agreed to do on the weekend. Because I normally have my piano lesson on a Sunday we moved it to a Saturday morning. After that we went back home to pack and then we left. Once we got to Ipswich we stopped at Springfield central (Orion) to get some lunch in the form of sushi and gelato. Once we got to Brisbane we picked up Dad and went to the Punjabi palace Indian restaurant for dinner. At the united services club Dad got the room right next to the reading room. The reading room had a chess set and all the latest army navy and air force newspapers and every military history book you could ever imagine. When I first saw it I was disappointed that I was only there for one night because I could spend hours in there. In the morning we went out to the shopping centre had breakfast and got some new books at the bookshop. The highlight of the weekend was going to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) to see the Southern Cross Soloists (SXS) Dreams and Visions Concert. The SXS performed pieces by Vivaldi, Bruch, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Twist and Ravel. Some of the pieces were arrangements for a small group as there was only a piano, oboe, clarinet, French horn, flute, violin, viola, cello and in one piece a didgeridoo. I can’t wait for the next SXS concert in October but there is another concert coming up in Stanthorpe on 19 September with a soloist from Brisbane and Mum has got me a ticket.
