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ROTARY CLUB OF FAREHAM MONTHLY JOURNAL
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The Fareham Flyer Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Fareham D1110 UK
President Linda Ingram
Service above Self Bulletin Number 344 MARCH 2012 www.farehamrotary.com
In partnership with the Rotary
Club of Whiteley and Rotary Club
of Fareham Meon, we celebrated
this day of awareness in the pre-
cinct of Fareham centre, taking
advantage of the excellent podium
and a bright sunny day.
Club members took turns to man
the display, which was decorated
using our new signage, which
presented a professional appear-
ance. Rotarians handed out infor-
mation brochures to the public,
and were on hand to answer any
questions.
Pres. Elect Duncan was amused
when one elderly gentleman
asked where he could find our
collecting bucket! It transpired
that he had almost £1’s worth of
bronze coins that he wished rid of.
(I hope he was directed to the
Wishing Well! Ed)
The event was greatly enlivened
by music from a jazz band, who
kindly came and set the joint
swinging!
Meanwhile, across the town,
Mother Nature came up trumps,
and brought our crocuses into
bloom in time for Rotary Day!
You may recall that last year,
Duncan and his horticultural
team, together with Fareham
Council assistance, planted a host
of purple crocuses to commemo-
rate the ‘Purple Pinkie’ ‘End Po-
lio Now’ campaign.
This year the crocuses have put
on a fine show, and it is to be
hoped that this will improve as
the years go by.
The sign, made by Ben Benstead
last year, was placed in position
by Pres. Elect Duncan.
ROTARY DAY 23RD FEBRUARY.
District Governors Message
January brought some wonderful
service across the District, and
some impressive personal
achievements. Many congratula-
tions to Rtn Vernon Petherick of
the Rotary Club of Cosham, on
the award of his MBE, for ser-
vices to Education, in the New
Year’s Honours.
I am always surprised and disap-
pointed when I hear Rotarians or
Rotary Clubs being described as
“apathetic”, although some might
say that I am being naïve. Having
said that, I think that this label has
been used when discussing atti-
tudes towards issues that are rele-
vant to “District”, “RIBI” or “RI”,
not towards the service that is un-
dertaken by Clubs. More specifi-
cally, when discussing the pro-
posals to re-structure RIBI, I have
recently heard several of my fel-
low Rotarians, both within and
outside this District, suggest that
Clubs don’t really care how RIBI
is run anyway, so would not be
interested in commenting on the
proposals. This has not been my
experience over the past month or
so. From the volume of com-
ments and questions I have re-
ceived, the level of attendance at
all three Extraordinary District
Council meetings (mainland, Isle
of Wight and Channel Islands)
and the eloquence and strength of
the arguments being put forward,
I would say that there is not only
interest and concern, but a genu-
ine desire to influence. It is really
important, therefore, that we
move that interest, concern and
desire to influence forward and
have as many of this District’s
Voting Delegates at the Business
Session of the RIBI Conference in
Bournemouth on the afternoon of
Saturday 14 April 2012 as pos-
sible – please be there!
___________________________
BBC NEWS REPORT
Did you see the BBC News report
on Rotarian action in the End
Polio Now campaign?
Follow this link and see the
report:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health
-17072769
___________________________
WEATHER WARNING
The Government warning said
that anyone traveling in icy
weather conditions should take:
A shovel, blankets or sleeping bag
Extra clothing, including scarf hat
and gloves.
24 hrs supply of food, 5 kgs of
rock salt.
Torch or lantern with spare batter-
ies, Road flares and reflective tri-
angles...Tow rope,
5 gallon petrol jerry can...
First aid kit and jump leads..
I looked a complete idiot on the
bus this morning!
This modern age.
A little boy goes to his father and
asks 'Daddy, how was I born?'
The father answers, 'Well, son, I
guess one day you will need to
find out anyway!
Your Mom and I first got together
in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I
set up a date via e-mail with your
Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room,
and googled each other. There
your mother agreed to a download
from my hard drive. As soon as I
was ready to upload, we discove-
red that neither one of us had used
a firewall, and since it was too
late to hit the delete button, nine
months later a little pop-up appea-
red that said:
You’ve got male!
Rotary Spring Clean Mes-sage from RIBI President Ray Burman:
"Rotary is the Big Society in action.
On Monday 12th March Rotarians
throughout RIBI will be working
alongside their communities to clean
up their neighbourhoods - The Rota-
ry Spring Clean."Clubs are coming
together, working with partners to
clean up their villages and towns.
Just one example of many hundreds
of Rotarians giving service to their
community- the Burton-upon-Trent
Rotary Club and the Bretby Rotary
Club will be working together along-
side young people from the Burton
Venture Trust to clean up their local
area"Wherever you are in RIBI, on
Monday 12th March why not join
with Victoria and me and take part in
the Rotary Spring Clean.
CALL OUR BLUFF
On Friday 24th
February, the So-
berton Contingent of the Rotary
Club of Fareham invited Rotary
members and their guests to
Wallisdean School in Fareham,
for an evening of intellectual en-
tertainment. The event was to
challenge our knowledge of the
English language, or for us to be
persuaded towards a correct defi-
nition by the smooth talk of a
member of the ‘Panel of Experts’
The Panel comprised that well-
known thespian and teller of tall
tales Mr John Rowlinson;
Mr John Laidlaw of Wickham.
Well known raconteur and one
half of the ‘Chuckle brothers’
and last but by no means least,
from his holiday home in Lanza-
rote via Soberton – Dr. Lyndon
Palmer.
A magnificent turn-out of 123
people filled the hall at Wallis-
dean – seated at tables decorated
in Rotary colours, with a special
floral display adding to the overall
pleasant appearance.
Each table comprised a team of
between 8 and 12 members, who
eagerly awaited the Master of
Ceremonies President Elect Dun-
can Colin-Jones.
Duncan introduced the members
of the panel and without further
ado the fun started.
It is hard to describe the shock on
the faces of the audience when
presented with the first word of
the evening – Gymnophoria
Whatever could it mean?
a To fancy someone?
b Too much gym?
c To be mentally undressed
by someone?
Who guessed ‘c’? – Top of the
class!
What about this one?
Zenzizenzizenzic:
a A number to the power of eight?
b Untouchable Bhuddist monks?
c Great grandson of Zen?
Well done if you said ‘ a’.
Each word was described with
even more conviction as the even-
ing progressed. Could John
Landaw be right for the third time
in a row?
At the half way break, refresh-
ments were served by Antonio’s
restaurant, after which time the
tickets for the raffle, once again
organised by Jill Newby and her
team, were drawn. A large num-
ber of prizes had been donated by
members.
The evening continued until 15 of
the most obscure words in the
English language had been debat-
ed and choices made.
In the event, the winning team
managed to choose eight of the
correct definitions – the rest of the
teams far behind!
All in all a very entertaining even-
ing, splendidly produced by Bob
Mussellwhite. Many thanks to
Bob and everyone involved.
It has just been announced that
the evening raised around £1250 –
what a brilliant effort!
BREVIROSTRATE
MISOCAPNIST
Celebrate the Diamond
Jubillee at Soberton!
At a recent Rotary Lunch mention
was made of The Jubilee weekend
celebrations in Soberton with the
suggestion that as a Club we join
in and it was good to see so many
of you indicating that we should
do so.
The current outline of the day is
thus:
Date:
Sunday 3rd
June
Venue The Recreation Ground on
Heath Road
Times: 1100 Thanksgiving Ser-
vice in marquee, followed at 1200
by picnic lunch
1400 Fun afternoon, games, ex-
hibits etc. etc .and teas.
1930 Dance in Marquee (maybe
fireworks to end), finishing at
2359
The event organiser has asked if
Rotary could assist with the car
parking arrangements; also that
we have a stall. She says with so
many Rotarians in the village it
would be interesting to learn of
Rotary's history and work.
Doubting we could/would be able
to create a Jubilee event of our
own this gives the Club an ideal
opportunity to be involved in a
celebration while giving some-
thing back to Soberton from
whence we get such good support.
The Jubilee weekend comprises 4
days as the Monday and Tuesday
are both Bank Holidays, so for
members and wives/partners to
devote one day to Soberton would
still leave plenty of time to cele-
brate elsewhere. The notable na-
tional event on the Sunday is the
flotilla on the Thames.
Lyndon will be plan-
ning/organizing the car parking
with hopefully the Club providing
marshals- just short shifts, then to
both enjoy the events taking place
and do a turn on the Rotary stall.
It will be a fun place to be, would
make a good day out, bring a pic-
nic, join in the happenings, do a
bit of marshalling, have the Rota-
ry stall/gazebo as a base, do a
stint on the stall.
For a Club stall/pitch I have a 3
metre x 6 metre pavilion (to
which I could add a 3m x 4m if
needed) which we could operate
as a 'rest a while'. Have it open
fronted and internally line the
back and side walls with Rotary
posters/info, have plenty of chairs
and a table or two, offer soft
drinks and take the opportunity to
talk to folks about Rotary, it's his-
tory and work as the event organ-
iser suggests. Soft drinks would
be easy to dispense, perhaps we
could get a drinks sponsor (Sains-
burys?) and we would not be tak-
ing trade away from 'teas' ven-
dors. And in the heat of the day
the shade of the Rotary tent would
be a very popular place, perhaps
equally so in a shower of rain!
Not to be involved would be
missing out on a rather special
celebration so please put the date
in your diary - SUNDAY 3rd
JUNE
See you there. – Tony Cove
March Programme 1
st Business & fellowship
3rd
District Council meeting
8th
Speaker – Alan Bowden
15th
Fellowship Meeting
20th
Club Council meeting
22nd
RI themed Meeting - Lit-
eracy month
29th
Evening meeting - Part-
ners & Guests – ‘Haslar
Night@
March Menus
1st Braised Steak with Black
Bean Sauce, New pota-
toes and Veg
8th
Cottage Pie and vegeta-
bles
15th
Roast Chicken and
trimmings, Roast pota-
toes and vegetables
22nd
Home - made Quiche,
Jacket Potato and salad
Garnish
29th
Carvery Roast & Dessert
– members & Guests
evening at Cams.
March Birthdays
9th Trish Spencer
11th Norman Chapman
11th Susan Mussellwhite
16th Rae Gauntlett
18th Betty Evans
18th Pauline Southern
19th John Bryant
22nd Enid Crouch
23rd Ernest Crouch
23rd Terry Eldrid
25th Ursula Esnault
29th Ben Benstead.
A few days ago I was having
some work done at my local gar-
age. A blonde came in and asked
for a seven-hundred and ten.
We all looked at each other and
another customer asked, 'What is
a seven-hundred and ten?'
She replied, 'You know, the little
piece in the middle of the engine,
I have lost it and need a new one.'
She replied that she did not know
exactly what it was, but this piece
had always been there.
The mechanic gave her a piece of
paper and a pen and asked her to
draw what the piece looked like.
She drew a circle and in the mid-
dle of it wrote 710. He then took
her over to a car just like hers
which had its hood up and asked,
'Is there a 710 on this car?'
She pointed and said, 'Of course,
it’s right there.' The mechanic
fainted.
If you're not sure what a 710 is
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