Thanks to Franz for ghostwriting my report for last week - Tony Schwartz has some competition! [hmmmm... Thanks for the compliment. I didn't expect you'd be intimate with Donald Trump's writings, Mr President. But ghostwriting for Trump would require some considerably higher level of mental contortionism than I'm capable of... ☺ Ed.]
Another Saturday, and so it seems another Bunnings fundraiser. Final figures aren't to hand yet but if the first shift was anything to go by, it might not have been as hectic as the pre-Christmas BBQs. Thanks to those who volunteered - the usual suspects know who they are.
Tash and Adam are this week's guest speakers. I know we'll have a big roll-up to welcome them back.
We haven't seen them for a long time - our wheelchair bound members have become social media stars! I suggested the theme "From mere wheelchair athletes to Social Media Stars"...
As President Mitch writes above, it's unlikely we beat the record set just before Christmas, but - based on my observations on the middle shift - still nothing to be sneezed at! A big Thank You! to all helpers on the day: Mitch Brown, Paul O'Neill, Ashley Symes, Geoff Croad, Ross Augustine, Andy Bell, Adrian Crowe, Mario Fairlie, Al Sirovs, Gus Miller, Charles Thomasson, Larry Murray, yours truly and - last but certainly not least - our "roving helper who was there all day, Ann O'Connor.
Picture shows a happy family (the tall gentleman on the left is a visiting student from Sweden), whose two delightful little daughters were over the moon to receive one of Andy Bell's carefully and lovingly prepared sausages...
Duty Roster - note: subject to change - please check every week. Note: Fellowship duty also is expected to be at the Project Shed on the Saturday following the meeting
Date
Door
Chairman
Fellowship/Project Shed (following Saturday)
11/01/2023
Mark Twyford
Nicole Bricknell
Adam Sheppard
18/01/2023
N/A (Social Meeting)
N/A (Social Meeting)
Paul Smith (Saturday, 21st January at the shed)
25/01/2023
Paul Seymour
Ashleigh Symes
Charles Thomasson
01/02/2023
N/A (Social Meeting)
N/A (Social Meeting)
Ross Augustine (Saturday, 4th February at the shed)
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get t the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it...
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. Clifton Fadiman, US Author
Mice die in mousetraps because they don’t know why the cheese is free
As President Mitch writes above, it's unlikely we beat the record set just before Christmas, but - based on my observations on the middle shift - still nothing to be sneezed at! A big Thank You! to all helpers on the day: Mitch Brown, Paul O'Neill, Ashley Symes, Geoff Croad, Ross Augustine, Andy Bell, Adrian Crowe, Mario Fairlie, Al Sirovs, Gus Miller, Charles Thomasson, Larry Murray, yours truly and - last but certainly not least - our "roving helper who was there all day, Ann O'Connor. 
