PROBUS WARRAWEE
Club No. 50510 - Inc. No. Y0222415
SINCE 1983
Updated: 3rd December 2025
MEMBERSHIP: September 2025 = 88
For full details of Coming Events, click on Warrawee Wrap
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NEXT GENERAL MEETING:
Friday: 25th November 2025
​10am, at THE WARRAWEE CLUB ​
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For details of the speaker and topic at our next meeting, refer to the Home Page.
CINEMA & DINING
The Cinema and Dining Activity will be in recess over the Xmas/New Year period. All members will be duly notified by email when the Activity resumes on Tuesday 27 January 2026.
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COFFEE GROUP
Contact: Paul Cook 0414891620
Next - Thursday 11th December 2025
Hornsby PCYC Cafe
1 Park Lane Waitara
at 10.00am
FINANCE GROUP
Contact: Rory Gray 0427 660 135
1st Friday bi-monthly,
Next meeting Friday 6th March 2026
VENUE - The Warrawee Club
at 10am.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Contact :
Alan McDermid 0409 285 859
Normally third Thursday of each month, but our next meeting will be on Monday 1st Dec 2025 10:00am at Alan's home in Lindfield, reviewing the photos captured at the October outing to the St Ives Showground, plus any other photos members wish to share.​​​​
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Photo Competition 2025: entries have now closed, but you can still vote for the People's Choice award until 9th December. Full instructions for voting are in the November WRAP.
COMPUTER GROUP
With Wahroonga Probus Group.
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3rd Tuesday of each month.
Next meeting Tuesday 16th December 2025
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Contact Paul Wood Wahroonga Probus
OR John Derrett at john@derrett.net.au
• Contact and Enquiries: Geoff Brew / Keith Walker
• Phone: 0412 301 123 / 0419 429 322
• Email: geoff.brew@icloud.com
• walker.keith.ian@gmail.com
Our next Outing is our​
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ANNUAL NEW YEAR BBQ
Tuesday 20th January 2026
We have booked the "The Pavilion" at Bobbin Head, from 4.30 pm until ‘closing’.
While the Pavilion’s BBQs will be available, please bring whatever form of portable dinner, hot or cold, takes your fancy.
Whatever you decide, it will be all BYO, as will your choice of liquid refreshment.
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OUTINGS
WINE and CHEESE GROUP
Contact: Roger Goozee 0405505339
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Next - 2:00pm Tuesday 2nd December 2025 for our Christmas gathering.
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At Roger Goozee's home in North Turramurra. Please let Roger know if you intend to attend.
ADVENTURE GROUP
Our last adventure activity for the year was a successful KAYAKING morning on the beautiful Woronora River on Wednesday 22nd October, followed by lunch at the Boatshed.
Planning for Adventure activities for 2026 has already started. Ian and Richard would be glad to have your suggestions for possible activities.
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• Contact & Enquiries:
o Ian Falconer M: 0407 462 171
o Richard White M: 0424 603 499
• Email: ian.falconer@sydney.edu.au
whitard@ozemail.com.au​​​​​​
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LUNCHEONS​
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Contact: John Crouch - 0403 599 078
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Lunches in 2026 will be on 26th March, 25th June, 27th August and 22nd October.
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WALK and EXPLORE
Contact: James Loxton 0412 559 395
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A new walk has recently opened between Middle Harbour headland and Georges Head. It looks like a cliff top walk. It’s said to be 3.5kms long. The blurb for the walk also reports that you will explore 220 years of Sydney defence history. It will be an interesting day
​​​More details in the November WRAP.
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​ Enquiries: Bill Killinger 0407 551 600 Email: bkillinger@optusnet.com.au
CULTURAL EVENTS
David Williamson’s latest play
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The Social Ladder
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Late Morning Session – 11 am 5th March 2026
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Step out of the theatre and enjoy the views of Careening Cove while we lunch in Bayly’s Bistro.
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For booking details see the November WRAP
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We are planning this tour for 2026 to be led by Greg Ferguson, Kiwi tour organizer with an unrivalled expertise in providing memories of a lifetime. (He led a highly successful Probus Warrawee tour of NZ South Island in 2019.)
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More detailed information in the November WRAP.
TOURS
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PROPOSED LONG TOUR 12 to 27 OCTOBER 2026
NZ NORTH ISLAND AND THE COOK ISLANDS
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NICK's BOOK EXCHANGE
Contact: Ian Falconer: 0407 462170
Have you read a good book you think your fellow members, or their partners, might enjoy we suggest you pass it on at the General Meeting.
If you are looking for a specific author or book, please contact the "Warrawee Wrap" editor. He will publish the request in the next Warrawee Wrap.
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FISH ‘N CHIPS
• Meet second Friday of each month
• Contact & Enquiries: John Laird Ph 0402 476 101
• Email: jlaird@conicklaird.com.au
The next FISH ’n CHIPS will be Friday 13th February 2026. We will meet at the Waterside Bistro, Bobbin Head Marina in Ku-ring-gai National Park for our monthly casual gents get together.
FITNESS BY ZOOM
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Members of our Club are invited to participate in an excellent exercise class run by Mike Adams from the North Shore Gym in Pymble. This includes a weekly Zoom class - that's right, you follow the 1-hour class in your own home, 7am each Wednesday.
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More details are in the WRAP; if you are interested, talk to
John Laird 0402 476 101
or Paul Gill 0418 363 585
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MUSIC GROUP
The next Zoom Music meeting is on Monday 1st December at 2pm.
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Yes, stay in your own home and just look and listen – it is always very enjoyable and interesting. Presenters on this occasion will be Geoff Fitzhardinge, Peter Williams (our very welcome new member) and Ralph Mackie.
Geoff Fitzhardinge arranges and hosts this scheduled ZOOM meeting. Details will be advised in the October WRAP.
No need to give notice – just ZOOM in on the day, using the following link:
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85332969049?pwd=7zqJ0bVCIZGkpxs6IWJiLpDU1L1Tne.1
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BOOK CLUB
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• Meets bi-monthly on the 3rd Monday of selected months
• Enquiries: Mark Tunstall 0429 334 340
• Email: home@tunstall.com.au
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The next Book Club meeting is
Monday 16th February @ 10.00 am
Killara Golf Club – Lower Bar
Here are the currently nominated books:
• Cloudstreet– Tim Winton - Fiction – Thanks to Bill Killinger
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday.
• Legacy – Chris Hammer– Fiction - Thanks to Doug Gordon
Martin Scarsden flees an assassination attempt but lands in even more trouble with a deadly family feud leaving him at death's door in Chris Hammer's next blockbuster crime novel.
• Gangland Australia – James Morton & Susanna Lobez – Nonfiction - Thanks to Malcolm Agnew
Gangland Australia surveys our criminal landscape from the early 1800s to the recent underworld killings in Melbourne. It details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have made up the criminal and gangland scene in Australia for over two centuries.
• The Code of the Woosters – P G Wodehouse – Classic - Thanks to Geoff Fitzhardinge
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves.
We meet, talk, drink beer/wine/coffee - have fun! Then a quick lunch.
Ian Falconer runs Nick’s Book Exchange at the monthly General Meeting. Bring your old books please
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