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

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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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