October 2011

Hallo and Welcome to our October Newsletter – as I start to type this, there are only 69 shopping day's left before Christmas!

I have just had a week in Lanzarote with my daughter Jill – total chilling out and gave me an opportunity to think about de-cluttering when I got home. I saw this headline in the letters to the editor column in the Lanzarote Gazette and I thought this is just the advice I need.

Finish what you've started

A doctor on TV recently said the way to achieve inner peace and tranquillity is to finish all the things you have started. Having been a little stressed recently, I thought I would give this a try and looked round my house to find things I had started and hadn't finished. I found quite a few things.

So, I have managed to finish off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a buttle of wum, a pockage of Prungles, the res of the cheesecake and a box of chocletz.

Yu haf no idr how fablus I feel rite now. Cheerz.

Anon.

TABLE TOP SALE ON SATURDAY 15 TH OCTOBER Our last one for this year and this is the very last time until March 2012 that I will be asking for any contributions for our Tombola Table. What do I hear you say!! All the tables have been booked, but there is a waiting list if you wanted to put your name on this.

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN OXFORD STREET and/or WINTER WONDERLAND IN HYDE PARK ON SUNDAY 20 TH NOVEMBER. In Winter Wonderland there is an open air Ice Rink, you can visit the Circus or take a ride on any of the Fairground attractions (there is a charge for these) or you can just take a look at all the Christmas Stalls and the German Market This excursion sold out within 5 days and I have booked a second coach. At £13.50 it is the most inexpensive way to go to London. So, don't delay book today.

“ CINDERELLA” PANTOMIME AT THE KINGS THEATRE ON TUESDAY 20 TH OF DECEMBER – if you booked early for this and as requested, just paid a deposit, could you now pay the balance please. Could you ask the Steward taking your balance to mark it off on the booking list and to give you a receipt to say that it is the balance?

QUIZ TIME

Very good response to the “Famous Mouthfuls” Quiz and some funny answers. Two Winners and the one drawn out of the hat was LIN BRUMBY – Congratulations and a box of something is waiting for you in the Office. This month we are going to have a Supermarket Sweep and the closing date will be 10.00am on the 15 th November.

STEWARDS CHRISTMAS COFFEE MORNING This will be at 10.00am on Wednesday 23 rd November and look forward to seeing you all there.

A rather scruffy Liverpudlian walks into a bank in Hope Street and asks to see somebody from the Loans Department. He tells the clerk that he is going to Australia on business for two weeks and needs to borrow £5000.00 The clerk tells him that the bank will need some sort of security for the loan. The Liverpudlian hands over the keys and documents of a new red Ferrari parked on the street in front of the bank. He produces the Log Book and everything is in order. The clerk agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. The bank Manager and the staff all enjoy a good laugh at the idea of him using a £120,000 Ferrari as collateral against a £5000. loan. An employee of the bank then drives the Ferrari into the bank's underground garage and parks it there. Two weeks later, the Liverpudlian returns, repays the £5000. and the interest, which comes to £15.41. The loan clerk says, “Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multi millionaire. What puzzles us is, why you would need to borrow £5000?” The Liverpudlian replies: “Where else in Liverpool can I park my car for two weeks for only £15.41 and expect it to be there when I return.”

According to the Daily Mail, “Singin' In The Rain” is going green. The water used by Adam Cooper (who played the Gene Kelly part of movie heart throb Don Lockwood) when he splashes around in puddles and gets soaked to the skin in the famous title sequence will be filtered and re-used when the show transfers to the Palace Theatre in London in February. A 12,000-litre tank is being installed in the West End theatre and 500 litres of water a minute will pour over Adam when he performs the number. Not every drop will be used again, because as some of us know, the audience in the first few rows will get a little splashed. Adam wears a special suit made of material that dries very quickly, but apparently he doesn't mind getting wet. In fact he says, “It is quite a relief, because there are two very strenuous dance sets immediately before the “Singin' in the Rain” number, so the water washes away the sweat!

Finally a beauty tip to get us all (gentlemen as well as ladies) ready for Christmas. Give your face a steam (once a week) using hot milk instead of water. Heat the milk to boiling point, pour into a large pudding basin, place a towel over your head and breathe it in for 5 minutes. The lactic acid in milk decongests the pores giving you a deep cleanse and leaves the skin beautifully clear.

Best Wishes. Cathy Kennealy