February 2010

6th -7th - Grand Ridge Ride II

24th - Club Meeting - Werribee RSL

28th - BBQ Ride - Mum and Dad's

March 2009

6th - 8th Harrietville weekend - Bookings Essential

24th - Club Meeting - Werribee RSL

28th - Corindhap Pub ride

April 2010

11th - Bunnings Epping Sausage Sizzle

23rd - 26th - Eildon Weekend - Bookings Essential

28th - Club Meeting - Werribee RSL

Reader’s Digest Word Power

Virago: a domineering, violent or bad-tempered woman.

The word virago is first recorded in Old English, as the name given by Adam to Eve in the Vulgate version of the Bible (that is, the Latin version of the text prepared in the 4th century).

The Latin word virago (from vir’man’) means a man-like or heroic woman; according to Genesis, Adam chose this name because Eve was made from the body of a man.

The word was adopted as a general term for heroic female warrior in the late 14th century, leading to the much less favourable sense ‘bold and impudent woman’, from which the current sense ‘domineering, violent or bad-tempered woman’ developed.