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CLUB CLIPBOARD
PRESIDENT’S UPDATE
The Management Committee met last Tuesday via Zoom; an interesting experience for the
uninitiated, me being one of them! The meeting was convened to discuss the Annual
General Meeting scheduled for Monday 11 October.
With lockdown, this cannot now go ahead. A Zoom meeting was a possibility, but due to
the minimum quorum (40) and the Club’s demographic, this option was not favoured. The
Management Committee, therefore, decided to wait until a face-to-face meeting could
safely be held soon after we return to full activities. This complies with Access Canberra
advice re AGM’s during COVID and may not be until early in the new year. However, for
the purpose of complete transparency in the meantime, the Club’s audited Financial Report
will be posted on the website for your information, as soon as the accounts are returned
from the auditor. Any queries can be addressed to the Treasurer by Club’s email
For the forthcoming year, not all the current members of the Management Committee are
re-nominating. Therefore, we will need some ‘new blood’ for the committee. Our valued
Treasurer is one of the members stepping down so we will need a replacement for her.
For the Club to continue to operate efficiently and effectively, it requires a fully functioning
Management Committee. So why not use this lockdown period to nominate to join the
committee and share in the management of your Club. Would you like to know more?
Email the Club office ([email protected]) and we will provide you with information
about the various responsibilities involved.
Stay safe and healthy.
Phil, President
FLORIADE REIMAGINED
Big thank you to ‘Shutterbug’ Norm Swanwick, for the following photos
of the Club’s bulbs and for doing the ‘mosaic’ arrangement for the Bulletin!
If you have any photos you would like to share or if you did a ‘Star’ design from
Catherine’s instructions, please send images to the Club’s email – I would love
to see them and if you are happy, share them with your fellow members!
Janelle
CLUB CLIPBOARD!
CLUB CLIPBOARD
Spring is in the air, bringing with it a feeling of renewal and possibility.
For planting info tailored to your area and climate, visit Bunnings Garden Corner for
growing advice!
What the Garden Corner
is doing in the garden in September
How to pot a plant
Whether you're starting from scratch or re-housing a plant that's
outgrown its old home, potting a plant is surprisingly easy. No
green thumb required! Learn how.
Watch video
How to grow and care for a peace lily
The peace lily is one of the most popular, hardiest and potentially
most beautiful of the indoor plants. They offer the best of both
worlds: beautiful foliage year-round and gorgeous, generally pure
white, flowers over a long period.
Find out how
How to build a wooden plant stand
Elevate a plant to create more of a statement piece in your home,
with this simple and gorgeous do it yourself plant stand.
View project
TALKING TASTY!
Cake is good for you! Sometimes
As we get older it is important to make sure that we optimize the nutritional content of
what we eat. Along with having lean red meat four times a week and fish two or three
times a week, you can boost your nutrient intake with a few small tips.
• Try replacing your afternoon tea / coffee and biscuit with a snack of cake, milk
drinks, fruit, or even toast. This will provide more nutritional value than a simple
cuppa.
• Sandwiches should be on wholemeal or a high fibre bread.
• Thin consommé style soups can take the edge off an appetite; however, they
provide next to zero nutritional value. It is better to go for a thick creamy soup or a
good old-fashioned hearty soup with plenty of vegetables, barley and legumes.
• Salad should include some protein, like cheese, egg, salmon or meat. A three-bean
mix would be a good addition to a salad, perfect for warm summer evenings.
LIBRARIES ACT
As mentioned in previous Bulletins, Libraries
ACT website has many interesting items,
especially during this period of lockdown.
Here is a sample of their latest offerings!
School Holiday Programs
for the Whole Family
Online
We have ways for the whole
family to enjoy the school holidays including
yoga, Zentangle drawing, creative writing
workshops and spring gardening advice.
Some programs are live and some are pre-
recorded. Browse programs
Too Busy Book Club
How many times have we
heard someone say, ‘I wish I
had more time to read’? As
we continue to follow busy lifestyles ‘reading’
has become an activity which is a luxury to
some.
The Too Busy Book Club is a new initiative
from Libraries ACT which recognises that
many readers have become non-readers
simply because they don’t have the time or
fallen out of the habit of reading.
Libraries ACT is offering a book club like no
other. Join the Too Busy Book Club and read
at YOUR leisure, enjoy a new title every
month plus join our Facebook discussion
group and get all the goss, updates, discuss
with other readers and maybe even the
author!
To get started head to Overdrive to borrow
‘Love Objects’ by Emily Maguire and to the
Too Busy Book Club Facebook page to join in
on the discussion.
Mystery Box Delivery Service
Libraries ACT knows that
Canberrans miss not being
able to visit the library
because of COVID-19
restrictions. They are now trialling a Mystery
Box delivery service and are inviting library
members to help test this service and provide
important feedback. Since this is a trial, there
are limited spaces available.
To sign up for the trial complete the Online
Registration Form, confirming your library
membership number. If you are not a
Libraries ACT member yet, it's free and easy
to join online.
You make your genre selection from the
options offered on the form and the library’s
friendly staff will hand-pick a surprise
selection of items to be delivered to you. You
will be notified by phone when your delivery
will arrive. You have four weeks to enjoy your
Mystery Box items; it will then be collected
with a new one delivered at a different time to
be COVID Safe.
Important information about contactless
services: Delivery and collection will be
contactless so please do not come outside
when the deliveries are made
For more information about this service,
please click on this link.
If you need help with registering or can't find
an answer to your questions, please contact
the library:
Email - [email protected]
Phone - 6207 5681
In addition to this service they also have the
Home Library Service (eligibility criteria
apply). Check if you are eligible for Home
Library Service here.
LOCKDOWN LOW-DOWN
Will you be ‘loyal to the foil’?
TALKING ‘TRIVIA’
ONLINE TRIVIA WITH FRIENDS
If you are missing your Trivia Fix or you want another challenge, Tugg Probus and
55 Plus Clubs are continuing their joint monthly on-line trivia night via Zoom. As
September has five Thursdays, they are having an extra session this month -
Thursday 30 September at 7.30 pm.
These nights are not long, just over an hour, with 4 or 5 rounds of General
Knowledge questions – 10 per round. All participants take a turn at being the ‘Quiz
Master’ for the month and after one jolly person donned
a hat, which prompted everyone to rush off and do the same,
there has emerged a nightly theme – earlier this month it was
Christmas and one attendee pulled out all the stops!
Next session is a hat of tinfoil so why not join the fun. There are sure to be
questions you can easily answer. There are no prizes, just the satisfaction of
realising how much general knowledge you have, or in my case haven’t!!
You will need to download and install Zoom (it is free and easy to install). Anne
sends the link on the night at 6.00 pm. and you need to join the session by 7.20 pm
so we can start on time.
New competitors are always welcome. Send Anne an email [email protected]
and join us next week! Janelle
TALKING TEASERS - SILHOUETTE QUIZ ANSWERS
Where you able to identify the cities by their Skylines? The answers are
below with some interesting facts about the skyline features.
