Tag: Linville Hotel

A JOURNEY BACK TO MY OLD SCHOOL OF 86 YEARS AGO.

On By Everald ComptonIn Ageing, Community and Values, Good Books, History

I will be at Linville on Thursday of this week, 20 July, doing a local launch of my book CATCHING THE LINVILLE TRAIN at a lunch at the Linville Hotel.

Decided to call the School and arrange to give them a signed copy of my book to put in the School Library. The Principal is a friendly person who was more than a bit surprised to be taking a call from a past student who first enrolled 86 years ago.

So it is that I will be at the School at 2.30pm on Thursday and I am looking forward to it.

The school was smaller when I was there, but it has an unforgettable memory for me as the school teacher at the time forced me to change from writing left handed. Now I do everything in life with my left hand except to write.

But they were happy days. Made many life long friends. Now, I am the only survivor.

With much nostalgia.

Everald

PS. Linville is in the Brisbane River Valley. Its a pleasant little village with a superb pub that serves great meals. You will be able to buy my book in the bar with 5 dollars per sale going to a great cause ARE YOU IN A PUDDLE MATE?

ARE YOU BOGGED MATE?

On By Everald ComptonIn Good Books

Whenever I hold launch functions for any of my (4) books, I always donate to a real good cause the royalties I get from my publisher for book sales at the function.

So it is that at the Linville Launch of my book CATCHING THE LINVILLE TRAIN, I will be giving the royalties to ARE YOU BOGGED MATE?

I knew nothing about this great cause until I was told about it by my friend Tanya Grimward who is the friendly proprietor of the LINVILLE HOTEL where my local book launch will be held this coming Thursday, 20 July, at Noon.

ARE YOU BOGGED MATE? is very much involved in mental health in rural Australia where there are more suicides per head of population than in our cities. Depression caused by financial issues relating to droughts, floods, fires, debt, losses etc is great and growing.

Mental health is now the greatest medical problem in Australia. I know this from my work as an Adjunct Professor at the Thompson Institute for Medical Health Research at University of the Sunshine Coast and so I admire the initiative taken by ARE YOU BOGGED MATE?

So come to support them this Thursday. The lunch is at the Linville Hotel at Noon. Cost is 50 dollars a head and a signed book can be bought for 30 dollars, of which 10 dollars goes to ARE YOU BOGGED MATE?

Sign up for lunch today by sending an email to Tanya Grimward at contact@thelinvillehotel.com.au and she will email you with banking details.

If you cant make it to Linville on Thursday, please buy a signed copy of CATCHING THE LINVILLE TRAIN from my website (everaldcompton.com then click on shop). Royalties from sales anytime this week will go to ARE YOU BOGGED MATE?

See you Thursday (or say hello on my website).

Cheers

Everald

LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING LUNCH WITH YOU AT LINVILLE ONE WEEK FROM TODAY.

On By Everald ComptonIn Good Books, History

PUT THIS DATE IN YOUR DIARY RIGHT NOW.

THURSDAY 20 JULY NOON – LINVILLE HOTEL – LUNCH WITH EVERALD

Send an email today to

contact@thelinvillehotel.com.au

to book your seats at the table. They will send you banking details.

Cost is 50 dollars per person for a wonderful lunch at an historic hotel while you enjoy a chat about my book CATCHING THE LINVILLE TRAIN as well as helping to raise funds for a wonderful charity called ARE YOU BOGGED MATE that cares for people in the bush who are having a battle with mental health.

I lived in Linville 90 years ago and passed the hotel on my walk to school. Back in those days it was called the Club Hotel as you can see on the painting that’s on the back cover of my book.

You will enjoy your drive to this pleasant rural village. Its less than a couple of hours drive from Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast so you can relax in historic surroundings on a pleasant day.

It will be good to meet you and I am certain that you will drive home feeling real good.

Cheers

Everald