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Uncle Pauls (Wynberg Rotaract)
Thu Nov 27
Social: Rotary Foundation / International
Wed Dec 3
WRC Uncle Pauls Christmas treat
Thu Dec 4
No meeting: see yesterday
Sun Dec 7
Hikefor
Thu Dec 11
Business Meeting
Fri Dec 12
Our Charter day! Chartered 12th December 1949
Thu Dec 18
Last meeting : Christmas party, format tbc.
Sun Dec 21
Last night: Uncle Pauls
Thu Dec 25
Christmas, subject to confirmation
Thu Jan 1, 2015
New Year
Thu Jan 8
First meeting of 2015: Dave Barnard on the Battlefields.
Thu Jan 15
Normal meeting: James Fernie: Uthando
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Hikefor Barry has brought to our attention the latest ‘pre Christmas’ hike in Hout Bay scheduled for Sunday 7 He suggests that interested club members contact him, and he will submit the list (?) to Joe/Adele. The invitation reads
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Christmas Hike Boskykloof Rd, off Valley Rd in Hout Bay on Sunday, December, 07th, 09.00h for 09.30h
Dear Fellow Hikers, This year’s Christmas Hike takes us to the beautiful Valley of Hout Bay. Different from our traditional beach walk in December we shall do the picturesque Contour Path looking down on Hout Bay which begins above Suikerbossie Restaurant (near Ruyterplaats Estate) and takes us along the foot of the Twelve Apostles with lovely vistas all along the way to the bottom of Myburgh Ravine and into Longkloof It’s a +/- 2 hrs. walk, mostly flat and partly in the shade. You can see a description of the hike and pictures here. At the end of the hike we will have a very gemütliches picnic in a shady pine grove So bring your turkey, Norwegian salmon and your duck’s breast plus your cold vonkelwyn, Christmas cake and pudding to the picnic site. We shall park our cars nearby , you need only to carry water on the hike. Also don’t forget a picnic blanket, folding chairs and your Santa hat. With a few cars we drive back up to Suikerbossie and start from there. One hiker who has a garden should bring a shovel to bury what happens to the turkey afterwards. Also, if you have a gardener, who wants to earn a nice bakshish for watching our cars let me know.
TAILPIECE A message from former Wynberg Rotarian Herbert Herrmann. With reference to Graham’s editorial on Mary & John Vivian’s golden wedding, the following story. Friedel and I had our 54th wedding anniversary some months ago. A guest and old friend told the following story: A woman dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates. St Peter said to her “You were always a very good person on earth – you can have a wish here in heaven; anything you want”. All the woman could say was that she wanted to be with her husband again who had died 10 years ago. St Peter got out the big book and searched but could not find the name. He turned to the woman and said: ”Are you sure you want to be with your husband again. I cannot find him in my book” The woman was convinced there must be a mistake – he had to be in heaven. She implored St Peter and he turned and got the book of the blessed out. Again he could not find anything. The woman told St Peter very convincingly what a good man her husband had been and that he must be heaven. St Peter turned around again and got the book of the saints out. He searched and searched and ultimately turned around to the woman and said: “Sorry, but no entry. I am afraid…”. The woman interrupted him and said: ”I am convinced my husband is in heaven - he was a very special good person. I was married to him for 54 years and…” St Peter looked at the woman with big eyes and said:” Why did you not say so earlier – then I have to look in the very special book of martyrs. Might I say that Friedel did not look amused. But tell John that he now also qualifies for this very special book.
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