//Exactly where is Patterson?//

Hunter Valley, NSW. Google is more helpful when you spell things with the appropriate number of t's.

Yes he liked his tea twice a day.
School Canteen - Home - AB Paterson College | Private Co ...
https://www.abpat.qld.edu.au/index.php?page_id=73
Morning tea is available daily, and the Canteen also caters for teachers on student banjo development days and for other College events.

Foxy,

Fun times

"Of course that event was cancelled for safety reasons.
However, I can't remember anyone getting seriously burned
or hurt. Those were fun times."

and the event having been cancelled, the professionals took over, duly Government licenced----then the first firework fatalities occurred in Australia when a couple of professionals were killed.

Should be an Olympic sport , the Russian fireworks were pathetic with none of the performance you'd expect from medical additives.

Re Anzac, the troops were put ashore too far north onto hills backed
beaches instead of low ground.

Can anyone tell me of a more significant date in the last 100,000
years than 26th January 1788 ?

"Re Anzac, the troops were put ashore too far north onto hills backed
beaches instead of low ground.

Can anyone tell me of a more significant date in the last 100,000
years than 26th January 1788 ?"
Yeah the Turks at Port Jackson and the North Shore had cannons which were absent at Botany Bay. Although on 26 January there was heavy barbed wire around Kurnell and the refineries and maybe the secret adjustment in plans wasn't picked up on mobiles or the Corps signals at HQ.