No Meeting - After Garage Sale |
Monday 15th October
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St Gabriel’s School visit
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Wednesday 21st November
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Hi Fellow Members,
We have been invited to St Gabriels School for a Morning Tea at 10.30AM on Wednesday 21st November. The first stage of the outdoor Learning Area is now complete, and St Gabriels are keen to show us what has been achieved. As you know, we funded and built an equipment Shed and via Tom Westcott, we contributed shade sails for the courtyard area. The agenda is as follows. · 10.30am : Arrive and School Tour · 11.00am : Meet the students and see the playground · 11.15am : Morning tea · 11.30am : Depart Can you please let me know by 5th November if you would like to attend, so I can confirm numbers? Tony Coote |
Duty Roster
If you are unable to be at the meeting please contact the person doing your role the following week/s, arrange a swap and advise Keith, so he can amend his records.
Also, to avoid being rostered on, please notify Keith of any upcoming known absences (eg holidays) from meetings in the next twelve months.
Also, to avoid being rostered on, please notify Keith of any upcoming known absences (eg holidays) from meetings in the next twelve months.
Inside This Issue |
Upcoming Events18th November End of Year Lunch - Muirfield Golf Club
21st November Tour of St Gabriel's School 30th November Ronald McDonald House - meal from the heart 6th December Anglicare BBQ |
Tarzan
We have the opportunity to see the NSW premiere of Tarzan the Musical presented by Sydney Youth Musical Theatre at Hornsby RSL Club on Friday 23 November at 7:30pm. Tarzan features heart-pumping music by rock legend, Phil Collins.
Washed up on the shores of West Africa, an infant boy is taken in and raised by gorillas who name him Tarzan. Apart from striving for acceptance from his ape father, Tarzan's life is mostly monkey business until a human expedition treks into his tribe's territory, and he encounters creatures like himself for the first time. |
Tarzan struggles to navigate a jungle, thick with emotion, as he discovers his animal upbringing clashing with his human instincts.
If you wish to attend on Friday 23rd November please email Max, make your payment ($32.00-Senior or $37.00-Adult) into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Tarzan".
- To secure seats you need to book now, no later than Friday 26th October. -
If you wish to attend on Friday 23rd November please email Max, make your payment ($32.00-Senior or $37.00-Adult) into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Tarzan".
- To secure seats you need to book now, no later than Friday 26th October. -
Bidjigal Walk - Tuesday 13th November
We have been invited to join our Rotary Friends in the West Pennant & District Probus Club for this combined activity to be led by Brian Powyer:
Time: 9.45am for 10.00am start Meet: Heidi Place West Pennant Hills – Entrance to Bidjigal Reserve Duration: Approx. 2 hours, Level of fitness: Reasonable, difficult if support (walkers) is needed Path: Relatively flat, some undulations, very accessible, bush styled track Lunch: To be discussed – perhaps outside Reserve Wear: sturdy shoes, hat, layered clothing, sunscreen Bring: Bottle of water, Parking 1: In carpark/street at bottom end of Heidi Place Includes Aboriginal caves and waterfall (may not be flowing) If you would like to participate please advise Max via email to enable him to compile an attendance list.
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Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year
The Garage Sale
We have just had our best and most successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 7&8 October raising a record gross - north of $35k.
Excellent Project Management and a large number of dedicated volunteers, some putting in hours of effort, in the weeks before the weekend contributed to this result. |
Meetings |
Monday 6:30pm for 7:00pm - Springfield House - 245 New Line Road, Dural 2158 |
Apologies |
If you are unable to attend or are bringing a guest (even if they are your partner) you must notify Carol.
Phone 8850 6515 or email [email protected] before 3pm on the Friday before the meeting. |
If you are expected and do not show you will be required to pay for the meal.
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President's Report 8th October 2018
It was pleasing to welcome 32 members and guests to our meeting tonight. The guests tonight were our speaker Don Murray from the Rosie May Foundation. Jenny Murray, Anne and Alick Grant from the Burntisland & Kinghorn Club in Scotland.
Thank you to the Bunnings BBQ team for Oct 1st: Peter Stanton, Rosemary, Tony Coote, John , Keith and Andrew under the leadership of Bill. About $700 for fundraising and about $130 for drought relief. The Garage Sale preparation is well underway. A big thank you to Neville who is doing a tremendous job and to all who are turning out to assist with collections and sorting/cleaning donations. If you put your name down for a task please turn up as you are being relied upon by others. I hope the current spell of wet weather passes on before Friday. Plan B will be discussed by the committee tonight. Please keep watching your emails for garage sale notices. District Presidents meeting. Attended District Presidents Meeting: Highlights were:
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See https://www.9now.com.au/today/2018/extras/latest/august/drought-relief-fund for details.
RAWCS has initiated a new appeal to continue the work of the above appeal. RAWCS has established seven Rotary District drought relief projects in the whole area impacted by this drought, west of the Great Dividing Range , from far North Queensland to Victoria. Some 200+ Rotary clubs and their local members are dealing direct with farming families needing assistance. The emphasis is addressing the mental health issues caused by the drought, “Wellbeing rather than Welfare”, by direct contact and financial support, and involvement together through a range of community activities of those affected. http://rawcs.org.au/ Money will only go to Australian owned farms and will only be channelled through organisations that do not take out administration fees. Eight clubs have distributed donations in a similar manner to us. About 75% of the District Clubs are participating in drought relief fund raising. The Clubs are being encouraged to continue to fund raise. District is putting together a Disaster Response Committee to put in place a permanent structure than can be put into operation quickly when needed. The Rotary Club of Caringbah has put together a drought relief 4 minute YouTube video “Adopt_a-town” encouraging clubs to adopt a town, go visit and spend money in the town - . We have already done it. |
- Our District had the highest per member contribution ($206) to the Rotary foundation for Rotary ANZ.
- Presidents were reminded again about using the now 5-year old Rotary brand. Note our Garage Flyer does not comply. In future District will not publish/promote information that uses the old brand. An email will go out to all Club officers this week.
- The Ride The Train for End Polio raised around $240,000 – we donated $2,100 ($1500 USD)
- District moving its term deposits to Bendigo bank. Slightly better return, better flexibility with deposits, and most importantly gives District access to Bendigo Bank grants.
- District members increased to 1900 spread over 71 clubs.
- PDG Tony Castalie (Hobbysew) introduced Mary-anne Webb from Project KIN who provides play and learn equipment to 3-7 year old disadvantaged children. https://www.projectkin.org/.
Mums & Co. Mirvac putting this program on temporary hold.
Fundraising Raffle. We have been donated two professionally made wooden toys for raffling. I have reserved a space in the Cherrybrook Shopping Centre to sell tickets from Nov 7 to 11. Aim is to raise enough for two of “Anna’s cows”.
Combined Clubs Meeting at Epping. Seven clubs are meeting together on Nov 12th. – partners are welcome. Justin Kang (Member of Epping Club and a partner at Dentons) will moderate an approximately 30 to 40 minute Question and Answer discussion with Greg Smith (past member of NSW LA) and Julian Leeser. Topic is “Are our institutions such as our democratic parliamentary system, police, judicial, religious, education and media as strong and respected as 50 years ago?”. After this each Club President or their representative will ask a question of either Julian or Greg.
The cost is $35 per person which includes a $5 drink. It is a 6 for 6.30 pm start. At the start each President will speak for 2 to 3 minutes on a successful project(s ), a process that works, or whatever they choose, but maximum of 3 minutes. Dinner at 7.00 pm. The meeting will finish at 8.30 pm. We need to know how many are attending by Oct 22nd and collect the money by Nov 12th. Please pay at our front desk at our next meeting or direct to our general account.
Nov 12th was to be our next Club Assembly which has now been moved to Dec 3rd the same night as out AGM.
No meeting next Monday so until we meet here again on Monday October 22nd It will be a party night to celebrate the end of the Garage Sale, a partners night and the District Governor and Assistant Governor will be attending. Until then have lots of fun and fellowship at the garage sale.
No meeting next Monday so until we meet here again on Monday October 8th to hear from Don and Jenny Murray about the Rosie May Foundation (which is another potential international project). In the mean time have a great week and lots of garage sale fun.
President Colin
President Colin
Night Report 8th October
Opening: Sarg. Rosemary introduced Pres Colin to open the meeting.
President’s Report: Pres Colin introduced our visitors and guests and promoted our Club Bulletin. Also he mentioned that 9 other clubs in our district have followed our lead and taken their donations for the farmers to clubs they are partnering with to spread the relief money around.
Director’s Reports:
Max (social) reminded us of a social committee meeting on 24/10 at Carols new office a couple of doors down from her existing premises.
Woy Woy show is sold out. Berowra Musical Soc “Grease” closes Fri 12/10/18, SYMT “Tarzan” closes Fri 19/10/18. Melbourne Cup night on Monday 5/11.Janelle spoke on Youth, Larissa is in Tassie with exchange friends, Youth Science Forum nominee has passed another acceptance hurdle, all while she’s moving house.,well done Janelle.
John on foundation, encouraged members to participate in the Centurion programme, offering special blue badge stickers as recognition of their commitment.
Neville, Garage sale, its all in the email please read it and the bulletin. Final numbers needed for the Sat night dinner to Max NOW please.
Alan introduced our guest speakers Don and Jenny Murray promoting the ‘Rosie-May” foundation, formed in 2004 after the tragic death of their neighbours daughter.
Guest Speaker:
Rosie-May died, at the hands of a troubled 18 yo boy. This tragedy prompted them to lobby for a change in the English law which would prevent any future occurrence of this type.
They formed the Foundation with the excess of funds they received to set up a children’s home in Sri Lanka for tsunami victims. They found that “homes” generally had bad outcomes for the kids so they researched the issue and found that if the kids could stay with a parent the outcomes for the kids were much better. To achieve this they had to provide an income for the parent most of whom were single mothers and thus started project HOPE where they set up women in business making incense sticks, teaching them how to sew, setting them up as cooking teachers etc.
To date 214 single mums, 600 kids are self-sufficient and off the streets.
Another problem was molestation of women on public transport so they set up Tuk Tuk company and trained women to drive them, provided an income and safe travel for women.
They expanded their aid to Nepal to rebuild schools destroyed in the recent earth quake, specifically in very remote areas that take 10hrs in a 4wd Toyota, 6hrs in specialized off road truck, and 3 days walk to get to Meselmi school.
Also provided solar lights for school kids so they could study at home.
Sergeant at Arm’s
Sarg. Rosemary and Neville quizzed us on garage sale requirements but we were all too smart for her, we also heard how smart an Octopus is, almost smart enough to be a school teacher.
Heads and Tails won by Carol who snagged a nice white.
Raffle won by Douglas
Next meeting with DG on 22nd October.
Peter Cleary
Night Reporter
President’s Report: Pres Colin introduced our visitors and guests and promoted our Club Bulletin. Also he mentioned that 9 other clubs in our district have followed our lead and taken their donations for the farmers to clubs they are partnering with to spread the relief money around.
Director’s Reports:
Max (social) reminded us of a social committee meeting on 24/10 at Carols new office a couple of doors down from her existing premises.
Woy Woy show is sold out. Berowra Musical Soc “Grease” closes Fri 12/10/18, SYMT “Tarzan” closes Fri 19/10/18. Melbourne Cup night on Monday 5/11.Janelle spoke on Youth, Larissa is in Tassie with exchange friends, Youth Science Forum nominee has passed another acceptance hurdle, all while she’s moving house.,well done Janelle.
John on foundation, encouraged members to participate in the Centurion programme, offering special blue badge stickers as recognition of their commitment.
Neville, Garage sale, its all in the email please read it and the bulletin. Final numbers needed for the Sat night dinner to Max NOW please.
Alan introduced our guest speakers Don and Jenny Murray promoting the ‘Rosie-May” foundation, formed in 2004 after the tragic death of their neighbours daughter.
Guest Speaker:
Rosie-May died, at the hands of a troubled 18 yo boy. This tragedy prompted them to lobby for a change in the English law which would prevent any future occurrence of this type.
They formed the Foundation with the excess of funds they received to set up a children’s home in Sri Lanka for tsunami victims. They found that “homes” generally had bad outcomes for the kids so they researched the issue and found that if the kids could stay with a parent the outcomes for the kids were much better. To achieve this they had to provide an income for the parent most of whom were single mothers and thus started project HOPE where they set up women in business making incense sticks, teaching them how to sew, setting them up as cooking teachers etc.
To date 214 single mums, 600 kids are self-sufficient and off the streets.
Another problem was molestation of women on public transport so they set up Tuk Tuk company and trained women to drive them, provided an income and safe travel for women.
They expanded their aid to Nepal to rebuild schools destroyed in the recent earth quake, specifically in very remote areas that take 10hrs in a 4wd Toyota, 6hrs in specialized off road truck, and 3 days walk to get to Meselmi school.
Also provided solar lights for school kids so they could study at home.
Sergeant at Arm’s
Sarg. Rosemary and Neville quizzed us on garage sale requirements but we were all too smart for her, we also heard how smart an Octopus is, almost smart enough to be a school teacher.
Heads and Tails won by Carol who snagged a nice white.
Raffle won by Douglas
Next meeting with DG on 22nd October.
Peter Cleary
Night Reporter
Peter Stanton's Proposed International Project
"The International presentations Peter Stanton presented over last two meetings are attached for your perusal.
1. Australian Council for International Development, interviews President and Chief Executive Officer of NTA East Indonesia Aid, Dr Colin Barlow.
We learn from the perspective of one of our smaller members how they embrace sustainable development broadly with their partners and the communities within West Timor and Flores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=h2_136w_ZUI&feature=share
2. Rotary Small Grants project- a Rotary Belconnen (and Lane Cove) and NTA association partnership.”
Click the link below to download the presentation:
1. Australian Council for International Development, interviews President and Chief Executive Officer of NTA East Indonesia Aid, Dr Colin Barlow.
We learn from the perspective of one of our smaller members how they embrace sustainable development broadly with their partners and the communities within West Timor and Flores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=h2_136w_ZUI&feature=share
2. Rotary Small Grants project- a Rotary Belconnen (and Lane Cove) and NTA association partnership.”
Click the link below to download the presentation:
rotary_small_grants__east_indonesia__powerpoint_v3.pptx | |
File Size: | 7862 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
The Latest Report from Mikaela, our Exchange Student in Denmark
Mikaela's latest report of 18 Sep 2018 begins "The third chapter; once upon a wishing bracelet
The Ballingers: From Kalgoorlie to Perth the ½ way point of our trip
Still in Kalgoorlie. The weather over the last 2 weeks has been very variable ranging from mid 20s sunny little wind, shorts weather to b..y cold 16 degrees cloudy with a bleak wind making it feel ½ that. There is often a cold wind and some one told us that WA means Windy Always. We have found the locals very friendly right from the managers of the Caravan Park offering the use of their car
when they heard that we would be stuck there. The parts for the Jeep ended up being delivered mid-morning on Tuesday. It ended up mid-afternoon Wed before it was finished. We eventually got away much later than we had hoped. We did about 140k and stopped for the night at Menzies ready for an early get away tomorrow morning. The car seemed to go very well. We will then head over to the Coral Bay to catch up with the rest. We will go via Leinster, Mt Magnet, Geraldton, Carnarvon and meet with the others (hopefully with a day to spare), about 1500k over 4 days. Thursday after a 6.30am start we travelled to the Ghost town at Gwalia. Interesting but we didn’t spend a lot of time there (a bit early for the museum). No fences on the land we were passing, saw no stock, no farmhouses. Stopped for lunch in a very little town called Sandstone. The lady (who owned the café) husband was a full- time gold prospector. On to Mt. Magnet for an overnight stay. There were lots of very pretty purple wildflowers on the side of the road in amongst the low scrub, Soon the flowers were there with no scrub. Just a background of red dirt. Very pretty and as I was looking for a photogenic group the dirt changed to small rocks, not nearly as pretty, so I missed my opportunity. Its hard to stop a caravan quickly at 95kph. Friday another early start for a 600k day. As with yesterday very little traffic on the road. For the first 2 hours only 2 cars passed us going the other way. Started to get a few sheep and goats (still no fences) but started to get some dead kangaroos with wedge tailed eagles getting a feed, a common sight. Stopped early in the morning at Pindar to see the Wreath Flowers. On a 200m section of road 10k off the beaten track were these wreath like flowers growing in lots of individual plants. We learnt that the flowers were better this year than for a long time and the farmers were going to have an all-time record harvest. By the look of the field, The fields were very green with wheat? and yellow with rape. |
Monday at Coral Bay. Did a Submarine. (a boat with viewing windows below the water line), trip over the coral. The colours were not as strong as what we have seen at the Barrier Reef, but the coral wasn’t affected by man or disease. Saw many big fish swimming up to the viewing windows.
Back in Carnarvon, In the afternoon went to see a farm of one of the Rotary members, About 80 acres. Mainly lunchbox bananas (very small ones). He also grows zucchinis and asparagus. Both very labour intensive as they both must be picked every day. By the sound of his talk he wouldn’t be making money. Many of the farms around the area have shade cloth up 2m tall to stop crops like
table grapes being affected by the wind and the dust.
Tuesday went to the Space and Technology Museum which was very good. One of the exhibits was a of a life size replica of the Apollo11 Space Capsule where 3 at a time could lay back in the same position as the astronauts did and experience the sounds and vision of the take off and in orbit. Most people spend over 2 hours here. It’s on the site of what was the largest manned space flight tracking station outside the USA. All very good and it helped Carnarvon win an award for tourism in WA.
That evening we held an Auction night to raise funds for the Flying Doctor. It was held at the camp where they put on a Spud night for park residents cooking and serving over 100 very large potatoes complete with all the trimmings. At the Auction and Raffle we raised over $1000 a lot of which was from the park guests.
On the way to Carnarvon we passed 4 cyclists on the road with a a sign on their bikes that they were raising funds for Motor Neurone Disease. We ran in to them at the Museum and Invited them to the Spud night where they told us their story. A young family, originally from Holland, who took their kids out of school, sold their house and many possessions and with no real cycling experience decided to ride around Australia. They expected it to take a year and were about ½ way. They had raised about $22k so far and had worked their way up to riding about 90k per day.
Wed on to Denham at Shark Bay. It’s a World Heritage area. We are camped at an area quite high up, overlooking the Bay. Very pretty but very windy. (The average wind speed in the afternoon is nearly 40 kph). The old saying that it would blow the milk out of your tea seemed to be true. In the morning we went to Monkey Mia to see Dolphins come in to be hand fed. A bit of Drama in the Group as one of the fellows from NZ had pains in his tummy. After discussions with the local Nurse, who consulted the flying Doctor service, he was flown our that evening to a hospital in Geraldton. Subsequently diagnosed with an infection and a stone in one of his Gall Bladder ducts. We also stopped at Shell beach which was voted in the top 21 beaches in the world by National Geographic.
Back in Carnarvon, In the afternoon went to see a farm of one of the Rotary members, About 80 acres. Mainly lunchbox bananas (very small ones). He also grows zucchinis and asparagus. Both very labour intensive as they both must be picked every day. By the sound of his talk he wouldn’t be making money. Many of the farms around the area have shade cloth up 2m tall to stop crops like
table grapes being affected by the wind and the dust.
Tuesday went to the Space and Technology Museum which was very good. One of the exhibits was a of a life size replica of the Apollo11 Space Capsule where 3 at a time could lay back in the same position as the astronauts did and experience the sounds and vision of the take off and in orbit. Most people spend over 2 hours here. It’s on the site of what was the largest manned space flight tracking station outside the USA. All very good and it helped Carnarvon win an award for tourism in WA.
That evening we held an Auction night to raise funds for the Flying Doctor. It was held at the camp where they put on a Spud night for park residents cooking and serving over 100 very large potatoes complete with all the trimmings. At the Auction and Raffle we raised over $1000 a lot of which was from the park guests.
On the way to Carnarvon we passed 4 cyclists on the road with a a sign on their bikes that they were raising funds for Motor Neurone Disease. We ran in to them at the Museum and Invited them to the Spud night where they told us their story. A young family, originally from Holland, who took their kids out of school, sold their house and many possessions and with no real cycling experience decided to ride around Australia. They expected it to take a year and were about ½ way. They had raised about $22k so far and had worked their way up to riding about 90k per day.
Wed on to Denham at Shark Bay. It’s a World Heritage area. We are camped at an area quite high up, overlooking the Bay. Very pretty but very windy. (The average wind speed in the afternoon is nearly 40 kph). The old saying that it would blow the milk out of your tea seemed to be true. In the morning we went to Monkey Mia to see Dolphins come in to be hand fed. A bit of Drama in the Group as one of the fellows from NZ had pains in his tummy. After discussions with the local Nurse, who consulted the flying Doctor service, he was flown our that evening to a hospital in Geraldton. Subsequently diagnosed with an infection and a stone in one of his Gall Bladder ducts. We also stopped at Shell beach which was voted in the top 21 beaches in the world by National Geographic.
On to Hamelin Pool. That evening at sunset we went to see the Stromatolites. which is a living organism credited with creating the Oxygen in the atmosphere. They are dated at 3.7 billion years old. (Humans have been around for less than 200,000 years) They grow very slowly at the rate of a fraction of a millimetre a year as a 1m one could be 2-3000 years old. Here is an Ideal place to see them as the water is very salty.
Today, Saturday , we took 4 vehicles out to Steep Point (the most westerly point of Australia). It was a 300km round trip, some of which was in low range 4WD though sand hills and rocky outcrops with the tyre pressure lowered to 20 PSI. A 9 hour round trip. The Jeep did well climbing some sandhills first go, a couple of the others had trouble. Sunday at Kalbarri which is very well known for coastal cliffs, the wildflowers and river gorges. We went out to the National Park to a place called Z Bend and Nature’s window overlooking a river gorge. Along the way (along the road side and in the walk to the lookouts) we saw many different wild flowers. This involved numerous stops. The flowers were often very small (less than 1cm) and the best photos were often close ups. Tuesday on to Geraldton We stopped at Pink Lake. Most unusual. The colour comes from a carotenoid – producing algae . A source for B- Carotene. Saw some seagulls on the Lake. Very different. On arriving we went to see a presentation around the memorial that was constructed by local Rotary Clubs to HMS Sydney. It was sunk after a battle with the German Ship Kormoran in 1941. All 645 aboard the Sydney were lost. The Ship was only found in 2008 after the memorial had been constructed. The guide that we had really helped tell the story of why and how it was built, and all the symbolism represented there. Its apparently no 9 in the most visited attractions in Australia now. Now we have seen it and have had it explained its easy to see why. In the evening we went to a local manufacturing Jeweller (Its been there in the same family for 5 generations) for a cocktail party with a few members of the 3 local Rotary Clubs. Some of the ladies had their rings cleaned. Helen said I was the best Rotary meeting that she had been to?? Afterward we went back to see the HMS Sydney memorial lit up at night with in eternal remembrance flame. Another highlight, we visited the Lobster fisherman’s Cooperative to see the sorting and processing. The boats arrived while we were there one with 115 kilo and the other with over 230 a kilo. With a live weight price of $80 to $130 a Kilo that’s a good morning work. In fact, one lobster they caught was worth over $300. So they were celebrating as they were being sorted. From here they get trucked to Perth. Thursday We went directly to MIngeneu. When we got here we took a short trip out to a place called Depot Hill (A ww11 rifle range and Army depot). We saw carpets of wildflowers in amongst the trees. All very pretty but it was extremely hot and all the flies in the area came along for the ride. One couldn’t speak for fear of getting a mouth full. Early the next morning (Friday 21) we visited the local CBH (Combined Bulk Handling) Grain Handling depot servicing the local area. It’s also the largest inland grain handling depot in the Southern Hemisphere. We learnt the local standard of measurement was in 000tonnes. When we got to Jurien Bay we took the opportunity to drive around Mt Lesueur National Park. Some consider it one of the highlights as it contains over 900 species of plants. We eventually found a small group of native orchids. Saturday we went out to the Pinnacles. The desert Discovery centre was very informative. They apparently don’t know how they were formed and got there. Now at Perth the half way point of the trip. If anyone wants to see lots of pictures by a lot of the participants look the trip up on Facebook. eclub tagalong . Or click here |
Howard and Megan in WA
From my travel notes.
At the Emerald train station, built in 1900, we see the empty cattle freight train and carriages at the platform, ready for travel to Longreach and Winton to load the Longhorn steers from the out laying Cattle Stations in Northwest Queensland and the Northern Territory.
The cattle are picked up from the Stations by road trains and delivered to the railhead. Then by train to the abattoirs in Rockhampton or Brisbane. The daytime outside temperature being around 35 degrees would be stressful for the cattle so they moved only at night time. This transport operation ceases in November and begins again in March as the summer months are to hot for the cattle.
An interesting comment from the Train crew. The Station Owners (“Cockeys”) prefer the cattle be transported by train and not by road transport because by road the cattle are more stressed and have to be given a spell, feed and watered every 24 hours. Emerald is the Gem capital of Queensland so put on your boots 👢 and come on fossicking.
Howard and Megan at Emerald, Central West Queensland.
At the Emerald train station, built in 1900, we see the empty cattle freight train and carriages at the platform, ready for travel to Longreach and Winton to load the Longhorn steers from the out laying Cattle Stations in Northwest Queensland and the Northern Territory.
The cattle are picked up from the Stations by road trains and delivered to the railhead. Then by train to the abattoirs in Rockhampton or Brisbane. The daytime outside temperature being around 35 degrees would be stressful for the cattle so they moved only at night time. This transport operation ceases in November and begins again in March as the summer months are to hot for the cattle.
An interesting comment from the Train crew. The Station Owners (“Cockeys”) prefer the cattle be transported by train and not by road transport because by road the cattle are more stressed and have to be given a spell, feed and watered every 24 hours. Emerald is the Gem capital of Queensland so put on your boots 👢 and come on fossicking.
Howard and Megan at Emerald, Central West Queensland.
This Week's Humour
French Church
Jim
Father, I have sinned
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"Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I have been with a loose girl."
The priest asks, "Is that you, little Joey Pagano?" "Yes, Father, it is." "And who was the girl you were with?" "I can't tell you, Father. I don't want to ruin her reputation." "Well, Joey, I'm sure to find out her name sooner or later so you may as well tell me now. Was it Tina Minetti?" "I cannot say." "Was it Teresa Mazzarelli?" "I'll never tell." "Was it Nina Capelli?" "I'm sorry, but I cannot name her." "Was it Cathy Piriano?" "My lips are sealed." "Was it Rosa DiAngelo, then?" "Please, Father! I cannot tell you." The priest sighs in frustration. "You're very tight lipped, and I admire that. But you've sinned and have to atone. You cannot be an altar boy now for 4 months. Now you go and behave yourself." Joey walks back to his pew, and his friend Franco slides over and whispers, "What'd you get?" "Four months vacation and five good leads..." |
Anon
Clever Parrot
During a dull Parliament House dinner, Chloe Shorten, the wife of the Leader of the Opposition,
leaned over to chat with Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove. "I bought Bill a parrot for his birthday. That bird is so smart, Bill has already taught him to say over two hundred words!" “Very impressive," said Cosgrove, "But, you do realise he just speaks the words. He doesn't really understand what they all mean.” "Oh, I know," replied Chloe, “But neither does the parrot." |
Colin McGowan
Joke Bank content is 9 jokes.