NEWSLETTER

SUMMER 2011

COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2011-2012

OFFICERS

CHAIRMAN: Roy Carter 07801 191529

VICE CHAIRMAN: Mike King 01296 436079

TREASURER: Steve Everest 01296 583677

SECRETARY: Lin Smith 01296 484742

Mob: 07712 891474

THE COMMITTEE

MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY: Vivien Barrett 01296 681884

SPORTS SECRETARY: Chris Brown 01296 436925

SPORTS MANAGER/COACH: Chris Brown 01296 436925

WELFARE SECRETARY: Diane White 01296 712889

NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Mandy Oxlade 07554 447709

ADDITIONAL COMMITEE MEMBERS

Robert Bleasdale, Jeanne Ware

Please note that the club can be contacted on the following email

addresses:

chairman@aadc.co.uk

secretary@aadc.co.uk

membership@aadc.co.uk

LETTER FROM YOUR EDITOR –Mandy Oxlade

Dear Friends

I hope you are all keeping well and that you are all enjoying the nice

weather that we have been having.

The club has had a busy time. We celebrated the clubs 50th

year with

a lovely party. The evening was very enjoyable and it was so nice to

see old friends from both AADC and other clubs that joined us for

the party. My thanks go to my fellow committee members who

worked so hard to make the party a success.

The dry sports team have had a successful start to the season. The

team have attended 4 events and have won medals in each one. We

have had the regional snooker and bowls and the dry sports season is

underway.

Our annual sports day takes place on Saturday 18th

June 2011. If

there is anyone who can help in any way please let one of the

committee know.

Thank you to all members that have contributed items for this

edition. Please remember that that this is your newsletter and we

need your news.

Items can be sent or emailed to:

Mandy Oxlade Chris Brown

16 Barbel Close 33 Whaddon Chase

READING AYLESBURY

Berks Bucks

RG6 1AQ HP19 9QW

mandyoxlade@hotmail.com chriseboybrown@hotmail.com

THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE NEXT NEWSLETTER IS

THURSDAY 4TH

AUGUST

Welfare

Since the AGM I now have the role of Welfare Secretary, I hope I can

follow in Derek‟s capable footsteps!

If you know of any member who is ill or may need a “Thinking of You”

message please let me know.

I feel it is important for the club to keep in touch with members who are ill

or who we have not seen for a while.

I can be contacted on 01296 712889. (There is an answer machine. It does

say “This is the White House”).This due to our “sense of humour”

My email address is dianewhite5@btinternet.com.

Diane White

*****

Swimming

At the recent AGM there were some queries regarding swimming. Some

members were concerned due to low number of members that swimming

will stop.

Thankfully, the swimming is fairly safe at the moment.

BUT, if we do not support it, we may lose this special time in the pool. I

know sometimes the water can be a bit chilly! Roy is doing his best to sort

this out. Also we could not manage without our helpers and if they feel

they are coming and having nothing to do they may stop coming and we

will be in even more trouble.

Please try to support Wednesday evenings, it is only £2.00. a week and

great fun.

Diane White

VIVIEN GETS STITCHING As many of you may know one of Vivien Barrett hobbies is cross stitch. To

mark the clubs important milestone of 50 years, Vivien has made a

beautiful sampler. It is gold and green colours.

AADC GAMES 18TH JUNE 2011 As you will be aware, it is our annual games day on the date above.

If anyone has any unwanted and unused items that they wish to

donate as raffle prize please let one of the committee know.

MANDY OXLADE

Welcome

We would like to welcome all new members to the club. The

club has a monthly social night on the first Thursday of

each month.

From The Committee

A MEMORABLE HOLIDAY After a lot of discussion and saving up, we decided to travel to the other

side of the world to Australia, principally to visit Tony‟s sister in

Melbourne. A school friend of mine lives in Sydney and after inviting us

to stay with her for a few days we could hardly refuse! Two friends of ours

live in Perth so that gave us the outline of our schedule.

To break the journey we stopped in Singapore for one day on the way there

and the same coming back. This proved to be a very good idea, not only to

see Singapore itself but a good break from flying. The central reservations

of the roads were planted with flowers and very pretty and the orchid

gardens were fabulous. Prices were very low to eat out and a shopaholic

could easily spend a week there!

It was really great to meet up with my school friend in Sydney. It was

lovely and warm, about 30 degrees. After three days of sightseeing

memorable places such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House

we left for Melbourne.

We had some days of 25 – 30 degrees there. Three of which we spent at

Phillip Island, home to the „Little Penguins‟. We sat on a bench at sunset

watching them waddle up the beach to feed their babies in the burrows, a

sight well worth a visit.

Tony‟s sister drove us to some beautiful areas including one that a school

friend of Tony‟s lived in and as they hadn‟t met since they were 15, of

course they didn‟t recognize each other. They had only been corresponding

through Friends Reunited. The properties we visited of various friends all

seemed to be worth a million dollars or more – where did we go wrong??

There were kangaroos next to the land of one of the houses we visited,

koalas in the nearby sanctuary, a manta ray in the shallows near Phillip

Island and pelicans on the shore. Beautifully clean sandy beaches with

hardly anyone on them and Parakeets in the trees - it seemed like another

world. A free tram ride round Melbourne past the famous Flinders Station

and Melbourne Gaol where Ned Kelly was hanged was an interesting trip.

We met three great nephews for the first time, and Uncle Tony had only

seen twice before we then bid a sad farewell to Melbourne, just in time, as

it had turned cloudy and very cool.

After a four-hour flight and back in time by two hours we landed in

Perth in 34 degrees. What a beautiful city! The Swan River, so

called because of the black swans, and the Indian Ocean viewed from

high up in the gorgeous Kings Park. They have a beautifully kept area with

an avenue of trees, one for each of Australians who had been killed in wars

with a plaque commemorating each one at the base of the tree. Another free

bus took us round the nearby attractive town of Fremantle and back to

Perth.

Our friends took us to lunch at a nearby hospital. Why on earth a hospital?

When we looked out of the window, we saw why. The most beautiful view

of the blue sea with the sun shining on a marina crammed with very

expensive boats. It would almost be a pleasure to be in a hospital bed with

a view like that.

The lasting impression was of a city that is very clean, no litter, no graffiti,

flowers in abundance, including plumbago, bougainvillea and with parrots

and kookaburras in the surrounding trees. Everyone is so friendly – in the

numerous coffee houses and all the shops.

As regards price comparisons, properties have generally increased by a

large amount in the last few years. One friend who lives in a modest 2-

bedroomed house (bungalow) in Perth found out that her next-door

neighbour‟s had just been sold for 1.4 million dollars! Petrol was the

equivalent of about 90p per litre, meat about third cheaper than here. One

fruit we didn‟t have was bananas. Because of the Queensland floods they

were priced at £3.50 per lb!

Guess it‟s back to reality now, just the lovely memories to look back on.

One big regret was that we missed the club‟s 50th party, but we did think of

you all and were with you in spirit if not in person.

We‟re always willing to bore anyone with some photos if interested

Tony and Barbara Hawkins

REGIONAL BOWLS 12th

March 2011

The annual indoor bowls

tournament took place at

Winchester. This year‟s

event was a pairs contest.

AADC took a bigger team

than we have done for a

number of years; we all

had a good day. Loretta

and her partner (who was from a

different club) came 4th

in the

event.

WELL DONE LORETTA!

Chris Brown

REGIONAL SNOOKER 19th MARCH 2011

The regional snooker event took place

at Colours in Reading. AADC had a

very successful day. With Mark and

Loretta winning Bronze medals, I won

silver in groups 3 & 4. Mandy won

bronze and Michael won silver group

2. Mandy also won the David Joyce

achievement shield.

Chris Brown

WORKINGHAM GAMES 30TH

APRIL

Loretta: Gold Shot, Javelin, Distance Club, Darts,

Bronze High Basket Shoot.

Michael: Gold Discus, Skittles, Electric Slalom, Bronze

Distance Club, Low Basket Shoot.

Mark: Gold Shot, Kurling, Low Basket Shoot, Silver Javelin,

Electric Slalom, Bronze Darts.

Bob: Gold Javelin, Darts, Silver Discus, Distance Club,

Bronze Shot.

RUGBY GAMES 1ST

MAY

Michael: Silver Skittles, Darts, Bronze Throwing the rugby ball

Mark: Gold Pool, Bronze Skittles,

Loretta: Gold Mimi Crossbow, Discus

Audrey: Silver Table Tennis

Steve Everest

WYCOMBE GAMES 22ND

MAY

Vivien: Silver Discus, Form Javelin, Gold Electric W/C

Slalom

Loretta: Gold Bowls, Darts, Bronze Target Javelin

Cass: Gold Discus, Bronze Javelin

Katie: Gold Bowls, Skittles, Bean Bag, Foam Javelin,

Walk

Mandy: Silver Darts, Javelin, Shot, Skittles, Gold Discus,

Bronze Mini, Crossbow.

Mark: Gold Skittles, Beanbag, Electric W/C Slalom,

Bronze Darts.

John: Bronze Petanque, Mini Crossbow, Silver Bowls,

Darts, Bean bag, Gold Club, Javelin

Chris: Silver Target Javelin,

Woody: Gold Bean bag

Bob: Gold Petanque, Gold Mini Crossbow, Gold Javelin,

Bronze Shot.

Pictured above, our team at Wycombe Games.

OUR TRIP TO WIDNES

On Friday 29th

April four members set off on a weekend trip to

Widnes there was Granddad Rolfe and his grandson and there was

Mr Oxlade and daughter. Mr Oxlade was the taxi driver. On

reaching our destination we stayed at the premier inn in Warrington.

Everyone got settled in. In the evening we all went off for a meal

and we meet up with some friends of ours from WAMDSAD. We

had a good time socialising. Later on back at the hotel room there

was a knock at the door and it was the hotel manager as Mr Oxlade

had forgotten to pay for the puddings he had ordered. On the

Saturday it was down too business with day one of the kurling

competition. First of all it was the group stage and we all had to play

in a round robin. Sadly we did not make it passed this stage. I had a

close match against Gill from wamdsad. We spent most of the time

between matches helping out with the event. On Saturday evening

the gang attended the gale dinner. This was a nice get together. It

gave everyone chance to mix with each other. Granddad need to be

rescued by one of our friends from wamdsad as it was a help yourself

service for the main cause and he got into a bit of bother whilst

carrying his meal back to the table.

Sunday was the pair‟s event and the teams were granddad and

grandson and father and daughter. Granddad and grandson were

knocked out in the first round however Mr Oxlade and daughter got

through to the last 16.

Can you work out who is who?

Anniversary Party –Saturday 16th April 2011

We arrived at the party to find a beautifully decorated

hall. The tables were laid up with lovely flower decorations

and there were gold and white balloons in the entrance hall

and by the stage. Plus lots of photographs of club

events and members, past and present. Later in the evening

a lovely cake appeared, made by Lin and it was delicious.

As was the buffet we had earlier. We were entertained all

evening by a disco, playing mainly songs of the 60’s and any

requests we asked for. And it was not so loud that we

couldn’t still speak to each other. An autograph book was

passed around and there were some very complimentary

and moving comments put in it. Including one in Chinese and

one in Polish! Many people “danced” the night away and

there were some colourful fancy dress costumes. Well done

A.A.D.C. We are sure everyone who attended had a very

good evening. There had been a lot of very hard work done

before and during the evening.

Many thanks to everyone who helped before and during this

super evening.

Diane White and Sue Golding

Congratulations on the 50th

anniversary night. It was great with all

other members and lovely food. I also read the comments from the

people that couldn‟t make it.” So on to another 50 years.” It was nice

to see Sue and John who now live quite far away.

Audrey Lightfoot

Our 50th Anniversary Celebrations

16th April 2011 will stay in my mind for a long

time. I do hope everyone enjoyed the party as

much as I did. However, a celebration of this

size could not have been possible without the

Micro Grant received from Aylesbury Vale

Community Chest which is funded by Aylesbury Vale

District Council and Vale of Aylesbury Housing

Trust. The grant of £900 we received constituted

62% of the overall cost of the party. My thanks

must also go to the many

people who helped me get

everything ready, especially

Diane, Rob, Sarah and my daughter Laura.

Thank you Roy for putting up the bunting and

banners outside. Being rather busy on the night, I’m only sorry I

didn’t get enough time to sit and talk to many of our guests.

However, it was lovely to see you all there.

Lin Smith

COACH OUTING

We are having a day in Brighton on Saturday 13th

August. Anyone who

would like a seat on the coach, please contact me as soon as possible.

Just because you have always come on our coach trips in the past, please

don‟t think you are automatically put on the list! If you have already let

me know this year that you wish to come, you are on the list. There is no

charge for this trip so spaces will be limited.

You can contact me, Lin Smith on Club nights, ring me on 01296

484742 or send an email to: secretary@aadc.co.uk

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY-2011

June

2nd

Boccia Stoke Mandeville Community Centre

10th Kurling Maidenhead

18th AADC Games Stoke Mandeville Community Centre

25th Wamsad Games Maidenhead

July

7th Skittles Stoke Mandeville Community Centre

9th Gosport Games Gosport

15th Kurling Stoke Mandeville

17th Rushmoor Games Farnborough

Aug

4th Quiz Stoke Mandeville

13th Coach Trip Brighton

19th Kurling Maidenhead

Sept

3-4th

Sadsad Games Slough

10th Disport Basingstoke

17th NSE Phoenix Chalfont St Peter