NEWSLETTER
CABOOLTURE
FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Phone No - 5428 2018
eMail - cfhrg@mail.cth.com.au
Welcome back Diane Moore
DATES TO REMEMBER
We will be closed from
Next meeting – Saturday –
*NEGATIVES & CD OF PHOTOS OF 25TH ANNIVERSARY
PARTY ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO BORROW
(TO ENABLE YOU TO HAVE YOUR OWN PRINTS
DONE)….See duty person.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Well,
Christmas is almost upon us. The Group
has had a successful year in relation to the acquisition of books, microfiche
and compact disks for the library.
Thanks must go
to those members who have been kind enough to donate items ranging from
downloaded data to computers. Special thanks also go to those who were involved
in the renovation of the old bathroom. The new office will hopefully be
operational early in the New Year.
The
Anniversary Dinner was very successful and the efforts of the committee were
much appreciated. A delicious meal was
had by all and if the conversation level was any indication, then those
attending appeared to have enjoyed catching up with friends, old and new.
All members
are cordially invited to attend our final meeting for the year on the 10th
December after which a Christmas breakup will be
held. All attending are requested to
bring a platter of “nibbles”.
Do not forget
that the Anniversary Hindsight will be launched on this day so come along to
get your copy.
If you require
extra copies, remember to place your name and the number of copies required on
the list provided to ensure sufficient copies are produced.
I would like
to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and may the New Year be all you would wish.
Happy
researching,
OFFICE BEARERS FOR
2005/2006
President
David Jimmieson
Vice President
Elaine Elms
Secretary
Janet O’Flaherty
Treasurer
Helen Eaton
Librarian
Joanne Beeston
Assistant Librarians
Jane O’Brien, Chris Ryder & Glenys Gordon
Publications Editor (Hindsight & Newsletter)
Elaine Elms
Webpage Co-ordinator
Chris Ryder
Cemetery Records
Julie Saunders
Publicity Officer
Vacant
RAFFLES
Thank you to everyone for supporting the Monthly
Raffles, the 25th Anniversary Raffle and the Christmas Hamper Raffle. Raffles are necessary to raise funds to
enable the club to buy new resources and to function.
There will be no Monthly Raffle draws until the March
meeting. Tickets will go on sale in
January/February. When you purchase your
raffle ticket, there will be a choice of resources for you to select from.
25TH ANNIVERSARY
HINDSIGHT MAGAZINE
I hope you will collect/have collected your copy of
this magazine and that you will enjoy reading the stories submitted by our
members. If you would like extra copies
of the magazine, they are for sale @ $10 per copy. Please see duty person to order your extra
copy/copies.
Paint was donated for the repainting of the Office
and toilet.
Thank you to Chris Beeston
for the many hours spent doing the carpentry work in the new office.
Thank you to Lance Saunders for giving up his
Saturday to paint the new office.
Thank you to Bill Kasper for doing the electrical
work in the Office.
DON’T FORGET – Videos (3) of “Who do you think you
are?” are available for loan….these are quite interesting and well worth
watching.
THANK YOU
Thank you to Jane for supplying the silver card for
the covers of the Hindsight to make it special and for stitching and binding
all the books.
Thank you to Chris for proofreading as well as helping
with the mammoth task of collating the 25th Anniversary Hindsight, along with
Joanne, David, Pat V., Carmen, Betty, Janet & Don.
Thank you to Jeff for taking digital photos of
photographs that were brought into the Club, for inclusion in the Hindsight.
Thank you to Phil for allowing me the use of the
photos you took at the Celebration Dinner.
Elaine
Prize winners – 25th Anniversary celebration Raffle
1st prize – D
& A. Carr
2nd prize – Mavis
Chiverton
3rd prize – Pat
Vaughan
4th prize –
Barbara Gibson
Lucky Door Prize Winners
1. Trevor Bailey
2. Irene Gibson
Thank you to David, for being such a gracious host at
the 25th Anniversary dinner, making sure that everyone was looked after and got
plenty to eat, and that we all had a good time
A SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS
Christmas
itself was until recent times a purely Religious
festival and New Year was and still is the main holiday for Scots. Christmas
was not traditionally celebrated in
The
reason Christmas was not celebrated until recently go back to the time of John
Knox in the 1580's as it was seen to be papist in origin - the ban was strictly
enforced in law.
Until
recently, Christmas was fairly low key. It wasn't even a public holiday until
1958. Up till then, people worked normally on Christmas day, although the children
did get presents. Therefore the Christmas 'traditions' in
If
you wanted to have a real traditional Scottish Christmas, you should go into
work on Christmas day! In 1997/98 and 2001/2002 there were strikes at Scottish banks
because the bank staff were getting English holidays rather than the Scottish
ones, which have more time off at New Year.
As a
result, most if not all Christmas celebrations nowadays have been brought in
from other cultures (notable
Presumably
both Christmas and New Year are both linked to the ancient midwinter festival;
with Christmas being created as a means to make the early Christian church more
acceptable to the pagans who already had a festival about that time. The same
was done for Easter. Thus there are similarities between the Hallowe'en traditions and the New Year. In many parts of
the
The Twelve Days of Christmas
On the 1st day of
Christmas, my true love said to me
“I’m glad we
bought a turkey and a proper Christmas tree.”
On the 2nd day of
Christmas, much laughter could be heard
As
we tucked into our turkey a most delicious bird.
On the 3rd day of
Christmas, the people from next door
Said the turkey
tasted just as good as it had the day before.
Day four,
relations came to stay, poor Granny’s looking old,
we finished up the Christmas pud and ate the turkey cold.
On the 5th day of
Christmas, outside the snowflakes flurried,
but we were nice and warm inside and we ate
our turkey curried.
On the 6th day of
Christmas, the Christmas spirit died,
the children fought and bickered and we ate
turkey rissoles – fried.
On the 7th day of
Christmas, my true love did she wince,
when she sat down at the table and was offered
turkey mince.
Day eight and
nerves were getting frayed, the dog had run for
shelter,
I served up
turkey pancakes with a glass of alka seltzer.
On day nine the
cat left home, by lunchtime Dad was blotto
he said he needed lots to drink before
facing turkey risotto.
On the 10th day,
the booze had gone except the home made brew,
and as if that wasn’t bad enough, we suffered
turkey stew.
On the 11th day
of Christmas, the Christmas Tree was moulting,
the mince pies were as hard as rock, the
turkey was revolting.
On the 12th day
my true love had a smile upon her lips,
the guests had gone, the turkey too and we
dined on fish and chips!
Leftover Grub
Grub: Aside from the obvious meaning, grub means food or to search or
rummage. Fair dinkum cobber! I am sure that you will have no trouble at all
finding grub on Boxing Day. With a
Boxing Day house full of people, a need for rest and an even greater need to
clear the fridge out, you will find these Leftover Grubs the ideal solution to
your day long grazing needs.
Ingredients
Enough soft
dinner rolls to satisfy the needs of your invasion and your fridge.
The
contents of the fridge.
Mayonnaise,
gravy and sauces.
One
or more large packs of potato crisps or straws for both taste and decoration.
You will need -
One or more large, colourful serving trays
Directions
Break or slice your ham, chicken, turkey,
smoked salmon, lamb and/or beef into small pieces keeping each meat separate.
We are aiming for
light succulence so you will want appropriate sauces, gravies, mayonnaise etc.
You should have heaps left over but it is worth the effort of making some if
you don't.
Split each of the
rolls and butter/margarine both sides.
Make up the
rolls: An example is chicken, egg and mayonnaise - Lay down the mayonnaise and
sprinkle with crushed potato crisps. Cover with squished boiled egg. Add a small serve of broken chicken bits and
garnish with any leftover salad bits and put the lid on.
Cover your colourful tray with lightly crushed
potato crisps or straws and lay out your rolls like a wiggly grub.
Make eyes and
antennae for the 'front roll' and, if you feel up to it, you can make legs from
dill pickles, for the rest of your grub.
If the entire neighbourhood is calling in you can scrap the tray and use
the table. Cover the table with a
disposable table cloth/paper, cover the table with crushed chippies and simply
make a bigger grub or a number of grubs.
In the event that
you have some yummy leftovers that are not suitable for the rolls, simply set
them out as a landscape around the grub/s. When the grub is eaten your guests
can satisfy themselves with the broken chippy bits.
http://www.grandpapencil.com/cmas/recipes/grub.htm