This Day Tonight
· It’s $35 pp for the Change-over night dinner at the Barwon Heads Golf Club, and a pick-up-and-return home deal is available if you intend to imbibe to possible excess. Jackets for the gentlemen. The ladies are sure to be dressed appropriately so I won’t insult them with directions. PHF badges should be worn.· John Eyles earned congratulations for his organising of the Pasta/Pizza night at Lombardys. A mixture of water, bakers flour, salt, sugar, yeast, eggs and olive oil doesn’t sound very exciting, but cook it for 5 minutes, 20 seconds at 258o, and it is very palatable.
· At this mornings Board deliberations, $1000 was allocated to both ROMAC and INTERPLAST, and we will share the cost of still another defibrillator with the OG Golf Club.
· The district seeks a nomination from us for representation on the Literacy Resource Group for 2010-2011. This program is one of the priorities of RI President Ray Klinginsmith. Please indicate your interest to President Rod.
· The Queenscliffe RC change-over night will be held at the Royal Hotel on Monday 28th June @ $25 per person.
· The DIK collections is set for Monday 21st June. Kitchen stuff, tools, books of any variety. If in doubt, contact Alison George.
· Richard Grimmett has advised that he has a number of photos for inclusion, so this text is short.
The Lookout Reserve working bee last Sunday morning
Attended by Geoff Chandler, Peter Cullen, Mick Cummins, Noel Emselle, John Fox, Hans Franken, Alison George, Tony Haines, Vic Harnath, John Paton, James Ricchini and Bill & Marion Walton, [who also provided tea, coffee, and scones with jam & cream]. Apologies from Geoff Ford & the Greers.
The scones, jam & cream weren’t the only highlight. Noel’s gloves were really something!
Three fascinating, but otherwise quite useless pieces of information.
· Pandas have unusual paws that look like hands with a thumb and five fingers on each.
· A cat’s heart beats twice as fast as a human’s!
· An adult mayfly lives for only one day. It doesn’t even get a chance to eat anything, as it spends all its time mating and laying eggs.
Sign over a Gynecologist’s office………………………..”’Dr. Jones, at your cervix’
D Day passed virtually un-noticed
Last Sunday marked the 66th anniversary of the 6th June 1944 Allied landings on the coast of Normandy. It was not the end of the war, but perhaps, the beginning of the end. The stolid and somewhat unimaginative military minds of the Germans were unable to grasp the possibility that the expected invasion could occur at any location other than the narrowest point between England and France – the Pas de Calais, but it was Hitler’s sleep habits which probably saved the day for the Allies.
Military assessments of that momentous day suggest that the three German Panzer Divisions, held in reserve, could have swept the invasion forces back into the sea, but the Fuehrer had given strict orders that only he could release them for action. But Hitler was asleep at his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden until almost 15 hours after the assault began, and no-one was prepared to wake him! Of such things is history made.
Our Footy Tipping Competition [weekly report from Gary Golding]
Dick Clay was a winner on countback with 6/8, but Bill Walton holds top spot on the ladder.
Sign in a Podiatrist’s office………………………………’Time wounds all heels’.
A time for congratulations, and some thank you’s
First of all, congratulations to Rod Greer on his excellent leadership of our club, and sincere thanks from me for his support. I believe he has received a few complaints about my writing, but, like me, he possibly accepts the undeniable fact that ‘You can’t please all of the people all of the time’. I have received no complaints.
Congratulations also to Richard Trigg for giving me timely warning of all those programs and speakers he has organized, and to Richard Grimmett for waiting up for me to e-mail the text of each week’s bulletin prior to his publication [with embellishments] on the internet.
Thank you to my many contributors, - more non-Rotarians than members, but all greatly appreciated for their jokes, one-liners, words of wisdom and ‘thoughts for the day’. Not everything they submit is printed, and if it gets past my judgment for readability and brevity, it still has to get past the critical gaze of my proof reader!
I think Richard’s formatting often makes the text appear longer than it is, but my text is always exactly the same length – 2 pages of spaced A4. It is not easy to find something every week that will fill two pages, and it has been suggested that all we really need is a brief account of the speaker or subject , an equally brief summary of presidential, committee, district or RI reports, and a listing of programs and duty rosters for the next two weeks. I agree that is all we need, but I have no interest in writing nothing more than a ‘notice board’, so you are stuck with me and my present style, at least to the end of Noel Emselle’s year, or my untimely demise in the interim. At least you don’t have to read my bulletin, but I will repeat your roster call if you miss a duty without a replacement, so please at least scan it! Despite everything, I enjoy writing the bulletin, particularly since Richard has contrived to make it so much more visually attractive. I would like to receive more ‘letters to the editor’ or contributions of any kind from my fellow members, but that is up to you!
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 15th June, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Anita Roper Subject Sustainability Victoria Chairman Ian Downing
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Alex Magee Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Bill Walton
Birthdays 16th Geoff Ford, Jan Brentnall
Sign on a Septic Tank Truck……………………………….’Yesterday’s Meals on Wheels’.
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday, 22nd June, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Craig Salmon, Principal of the International School of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Subject The 3T Project [Teachers Teaching Teachers] Chairman Ian Bent
Supplementary Speakers Gary Golding & John Flett Subject ‘Getting to Know You
Assistant Cashier & Thanker James Ricchini Greeter & Assistant Segeant John Paton
Birthday 22nd – tonight! Geoffrey Cummins
Sign on a Plumber’s Truck………………………..’Don’t sleep with a drip. Call your Plumber’.
John Fox, 2120, 08/06/2010
