Christmas Party

Fun and games at the old folks Christmas Party. At least one of the Tumbling Tornadoes got his leg over! ( and forgot to do up his fly)

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Rotary Basics - How to Introduce New Members

http://www.rotary.org/en/Members/NewMembers/RotaryBasics/Pages/ridefault.aspx

Try this link and pass it on. The video introduction lasts for only  1 minute 18 seconds and sets the scene of the web page.

Thought for the Week

If everything else fails - try reading the instructions!

What's in a Name?

The winner of the quiz was A. Dobinson of Pelynt and the runner up M. Delage of Valleroy.

  ANSWERS TO WHAT’S IN A NAME?


  1.    Robert Cecil
  2.    Founder of Amazon
  3.    Compiler of Railway timetable
  4.    Founder of IKEA
  5.    Bishop of Sodor and Man
  6.    Invented the idea of Beaujolais Nouveau
  7.    Founder of Australian School of the Air
  8.    Mrs. Beeton
  9.     Meerkat in comparethemarket.com
10.    Indian steel owner
11.    Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds
12.    Bentley Motors
13.    Jimmy Jewel
14.    Vicar of Altarnun
15.    Bass of Four Tops
16.    Lotus Cars
17.    Gracie Fields
18.    Driver of FAB 1 in Thunderbirds
19.    Jimmy Edwards
20.    1st black President of the Republic of South Africa
21.    Lady Gaga
22.    Georgie Fame
23.    Lady Godiva
24.    1st black President of the USA
25.    Wilhelm II -grandson of Queen Victoria
26.    Sweeney Todd’s partner and pie shop owner
27.    Buffalo Bill
28.    Billy the Kid
29.    Archduke assassinated in Sarajevo starting WWI
30.    Angolan leader of UNITA
31.     World’s strongest man
32.    Big Bopper
33.    Brian Aldridge
34.    Cliff Richard
35.    Buddy Holly
36.    Ritchie Valens
37.    Elton John
38.    Eric Morcambe
39.    Buster Keaton
40.    William Shakespeare - midlands direction of weather
41.    Anne Bancroft - The Graduate
42.    Husbands of Marilyn Monroe
43.    Ernie Wise
44.    Mickey Mouse - 1st sound synchronised cartoon
45.    Alsatian theologian, organist, philosopher and physician
46.    Disgraced fiancé of Caroline May
47.    Founder of Rotary
48.    Last hangman
49.    Czech martyr
50.    George Orwell
51.    John Wayne
52.    Protestant reformer
53.    Inventer of football net
54.    John Kennedy
  55.    Mikado’s daughter-in-law elect
  56.    Moved Milton Abbas village   
  57.    Inventor of ERNIE etc.               
  58.    Code breaking bishop of Bath and Wells
  59.    Founder of Littlewoods Pools
  60.    Inventor of the calculator
  61.    Brains
  62.    Walt Disney
  63.    J Arthur Rank gong player
  64.    Inventor of the automatic machine gun
  65.    Mary Baker
  66.    Louis-Philippe of France and His wife Marie Amélie fleeing the       revolution of 1848
  67.    Model for Spirit of Ecstasy
  68.    Son of Henry VIII
  69.    Margaret Steuart Pollard - Ferguson Gang
  70.    Olympic gold for badminton with Jo Goode
  71.    Johnny Rotten
  72.    Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
  73.    Creator of Andy Capp
  74.    Wife of John Lennon - mother of Julian
  75.    With Eliot creator of Barbie
  76.    Jack Higgins
  77.    Mrs. John Major
  78.    Character played by Ronnie Barker in Porridge
  79.    Badly Drawn Boy
  80.    Designer of Sydney Opera House
  81.    Marc Bolan - T. Rex
  82.    Vicar of Warleggan - paper congregation
  83.    Welsh Rugby Union International
  84.    Founder of Cosmopolitan Magazine
  85.    Bionic Woman
  86.    Anthony Royle
  87.    Peanuts
  88.    Just William
  89.    2nd President of the USA
  90.    The Music Man
  91.    Organiser of 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles
  92.    Psycho
  93.    Barney Rubble
  94.    Mr. T
  95.    Pretty Woman
  96.    19th century Prime Minister Henry Temple - 3rd Viscount Palmerston
  97.    “The king of Prussia” - smuggler on Penwith coast and devout Methodist
  98.    Considered himself to be the younger brother of Jesus - Taiping rebellion
  99.    Bought Stonehenge as a birthday present for his wife
100.    Jean-Claude van Damme

Cap'n Bob Weighs Anchor

So, 





















it's goodbye from me and, 

it's goodbye from him......

Duck Race 2010

Who, What, When, Where?

Who are these happy people and the two miserable old gits with them?

Rotary BBQ at Bocaddon

A Man's Grill!

BBQ RULES
We are about to enter the BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking activity. When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion:

Routine...
(1) The woman buys the food.
(2) The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables, and makes dessert..
(3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils and sauces, and takes it to the man who is lounging beside the grill - beer in hand.
(4) The woman remains outside the compulsory three meter exclusion zone where the exuberance of testosterone and other manly bonding activities can take place without the interference of the woman...

Here comes the important part:
(5) THE MAN PLACES THE MEAT ON THE GRILL.

 More routine....
(6) The woman goes inside to organize the plates and cutlery.
(7) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is looking great. He thanks her and asks if she will bring another beer while he flips the meat

Important again:
(8) THE MAN TAKES THE MEAT OFF THE GRILL AND HANDS IT TO THE WOMAN.

More routine...
(9) The woman prepares the plates, salad, bread, utensils, napkins, sauces, and brings them to the table..

(10) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes.

 And most important of all:
(11) Everyone PRAISES the MAN and THANKS HIM for his cooking efforts.

(12) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed ' her night off ' and, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there's just no pleasing some women!

Disabled Newlife Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal

Progress on the new centre, March 2010

What do they get up to at District Conference?

Two Nicks! 

No Nicks!

Coming Soon

Look out for this document - it will soon be for sale in aid of the Thanks for Life appeal

Tower Bridge Projections

The first batch of the projections taken on Monday 8th March at Tower Bridge .
These will now join the World site in the next few days .

Rotary Window

Thanks to Roy and Debbie Vass for allowing us to use a window of their shop, Health and Happiness, to display our memorabilia during Rotary Awareness week.

Bucklawren Big Breakfast

We had a very successful day and served in the region of 260 breakfasts.  An amazing total of approx £3700 was raised. The local church of St Martins, Looe will benefit by £1184, Childrens Hospice South West by £430 and Rotary Shelter Box by £2086. This includes many very generous donations, many gift aided to Shelter Box. The Shelter Box tent erected on the lawn attracted a lot of interest and brought some of the Rotarians to their knees.

Shelterbox in Haiti

Click here for the latest Shelterbox news from Haiti

Generosity of Looe People

In some nine hours last Saturday and Sunday the generous people of Looe and visitors to the town donated £1200 to the appeal for the victims of the Haitian earthquake.  The money was collected by members of Looe Valley Rotary Club and their wives and is already on its way to the headquarters of ShelterBox.  The charity delivers boxes of aid, each of which provides a family of ten with quality survival equipment to use while they rebuild their homes.  If you’d like to know more about the charity go to www.shelterbox.org.

In the event of no news - amuse yourselves!

PUNS FOR "EDUCATED MINDS"

1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .

3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of maths disruption.

5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.

6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he   was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'

17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

21. A backward poet writes inverse.

22. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.

23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

24. Don't join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects.