Summer is in the air and

we have a great Summer

menu coming up. The

team have been working

hard on this for the past

three months and we

know, from the comments

we have already received

from the trials of the

meals, that it will be an-

other well received menu.

There are lots of new foods

on offer that we have not

previously had so we are

excited about introducing

it.

As always the chefs work

hard every day looking for

any improvements that

can be made on quality

and service so we have

made their job a whole lot

easier as we have pur-

chased two new ovens.

They are combi ovens

which can steam, bake and

roast without the need to

change to another oven.

They hold about 150kg of

food, about 20 trays and

best of all are self clean-

ing—I guess that’s why

they were not cheap but

the staff love them! This

means we now have five

large ovens easily catering

to any requirement.

Another exciting develop-

ment is the publica-

tion of a booklet

about the service we

provide and show-

casing the caliber of

food produced. The

intention is that

these booklets can

be given out to po-

tential new clients’ fami-

lies when they enquire

about care for their aged

dependant.

In the same vein as this

we are also developing a

website (which will be

available in the next cou-

ple of weeks) - check it out

www.acefoods.co.nz. This

is another way for you to

access us and see how

hard we work to be the

best we can in everything

we do.

Lastly Julie our operations

manager and Pania our

head chef are working to-

gether to ensure that

Christmas dinner is once

again, enjoyed by all our

residents.

Wishing you a happy

Xmas and prosperous New

Year.

Summer 2010

FESTIVE PLATTER CHATTER

A Few Words from

Peter

1

Temperature

Reminder

1

Remember in Dun-

edin

2

Festive Jokes 3

Xmas Facts 3

Allergies 3

Grandparents 4

Tasty Briefs

Do you remember these Dunedin-ite delights - - those electric buses that ran off the over head power lines

- gazing up at the 'starlight' ceiling of The St James picture theatre

- the Star Fountain in the Octagon

- dinner in the tram at the Carnarvon Station

- getting your photo taken on Santa's knee in the DIC cave

- swimming at the St Clair Salt Water Pools before it got a facelift and before it became heated (and when the sea wasn't coming right over the pools)

- feeding the ducks at the Botanical Gardens (and watching some poor child fall in)

- going into town shopping on a Friday night and looking up and seeing the light up horse on top of Arthur Barnetts or

the neon pigs on top of Bartons Butchers or the Michael Hill Jewellers massive light-up diamond

- parading along John Wilson Drive in convoy

- going up to Wakari Hospital when it snowed to slide down the huge banks on cardboard or in a babies bath or anything

that would slide!

- hanging out in the Octagon on Friday nights and cruising up and down in cars

- drinking in classic student bars like The 'Orrie', The Gardies and The Cook

- the Meridian Mall opening and thinking it was huge

- climbing the turret at Larnach's Castle down the Peninsula

- walks down the Spit at Aramoana, climbing up and then running down the sand dunes against the cliff on the other

side of Key Hole Rock, avoiding seals basking in the sun and penguins just standing around..

- eating 'greasies' from Big Daddy's in the Octagon

- drinking Speights on the Terraces at Carisbrook

- hanging out on Friday night downstairs at the Little Hut and drinking buckets of coffee

- watching the pneumatic tube thing that went up the walls and along the ceilings in the Penroses department store

- going for a swim at Moana Pool, playing on the rocket ship outside and jumping on the dodgy trampolines

- playing winter sport in rain and/or hail on Logan Park or playing rugby at 8 am on rock solid frozen grass

- skating on the broken down wooden half-pipe across the road from Forbury Race Course

- getting a Pea, Pie and 'Pud after a hard night out from the Pie Cart by the Bus Depot on Princes Street

- listening to 4XO & Bad Jelly the Witch on 4ZB before 7 am on Saturday mornings

- roller skating at the Skate Inn on Kaikorai Valley Road or Roxy Rollers in South Dunedin

- driving over the top of Pine Hill coming from Christchurch and seeing the familiar lights spread out before you

SOME CHRISTMAS RELATED FACTS :

In Hungary, after having dinner on December 24, the Christmas tree is

revealed to the children for the first time.

In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine

of a goat. It is usually made of straw. Scandinavian Christmas festivities

feature a variety of straw decorations in the form of stars, angels, hearts

and other shapes, as well as the Julbukk.

In Scandinavia, a little gnome called Julenisse puts the presents under the

Christmas tree in the night. The children leave a bowl of porridge out for

him.

In Portugal children put out their shoes instead of stockings, to be filled with

gifts. They open their presents at midnight on Christmas Eve/

In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning,

it is believed to be a harbinger of good luck! There once lived a woman so

poor, says a Ukrainian folk tale, that she could not afford Christmas decora-

tions for her family. One Christmas morning, she awoke to find that spiders

had trimmed her children’s tree with their webs. When the morning sun

shone on them, the webs turned to silver and gold. An artificial spider and

web are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees.

Green tea has 50% more

vitamin C than black tea.

Honey is the only food

that does not spoil.

Lemons contain more

sugar than strawberries.

The onion is named after a

Latin word meaning large

pearl.

1. She was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she'd done many times before. After she applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, "But Grandma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!" I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper good-bye...

2. My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, 62. My grandson was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?"

3. After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. Finally, she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the three-year-old say with a trembling voice, "Who was THAT?"

4. A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: "We used to skate outside on a pond I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this all in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"

5. My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo and I said, "No, how are we alike?'' "You're both old," he replied.

6. A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word processor She told him she was writing a story. "What's it about?" he asked. "I don't know," she replied. "I can't read."

7. I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colours yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what colour it was. She would tell me and was always correct. It was fun for me, so I continued. At last, she head-ed for the door, saying, "Grandma, I think you should try to figure out some of these, yourself!"

8. When my grandson Billy and I entered our holiday cabin, we kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from at-tracting annoying insects Still, a few fireflies followed us in. Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered, "It's no use Grand-dad. Now the mosquitoes are coming after us with flashlights."

9. When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, "I'm not sure." "Look in your underwear, Granddad," he advised, "mine says I'm 4 to 6."

10. A 6 year old came home from school and said to her grandmother, "Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today." The grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. "That's interesting," she said, "how do you make babies?" "It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i and add 'es'."

11. Children's Logic: "Give me a sentence about a public servant," said a teacher. The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant." The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what pregnant means?" she asked. "Sure," said the young boy confidently. 'It means carrying a child."

12. A grandfather was delivering his grandchildren to their home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog's duties. "They use him to keep crowds back," said one child. "No," said another. "He's just for good luck." A third child brought the argument to a close. " They use the dogs," she said firmly, "to find the fire hydrants."

13. A 6-year-old was asked where his grandma lived. "Oh," he said, "she lives at the airport, and when we want her, we just go get her. Then, when we're done having her visit, we take her back to the airport."

14. Granddad is the smartest man on earth! He teaches me good things, but I don't get to see him enough to get as smart as him!

15. My Grandparents are funny, when they bend over; you hear farts, and they blame their dog.