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The Brisbane Astronomical Society was doing a shopping centre display and event organiser gave Nick a ring to see if he could attend.
Organiser: Is Nick there?
Wife to be: No.
Organiser: Do you know it Nick is coming to the display on Saturday.
Wife to be: NO! He is getting married on Saturday afternoon.
Organiser: Could he attend just the morning session.
Wife to be: Click
(This was just before Nick's first marriage)
At a BAS astrocamp, Nick went for a drive in the countryside. Later in the afternoon a large summer thunderstorm was forming, everyone packup their scope, but noticed Nick's scope was still setup. Doing the right thing we disassembled Nick's scope. Everyone took bits off the scope, but placed the bits in different places. It took Nick about two hours find all the bits when he got back.
I to was there during the (in)famous John Dobson and the crappy mirror incident at the Qld Astrofest. I have a photo (but now misplaced) of Nick getting his scope back from Dobson, from my vantage point it look like Nick was going to strangle Dobson.
Brendan
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