NEWSLETTER APRIL 2022

BRANCH MEETINGS NOW 2^nd SATURDAY MORNINGS 10:30AM AND MONTHLY LUNCHES 4^TH TUESDAY 12.30AM BOTH AT FERDOWN RBL

Newsletter for  April 2022   Please note any news or information for the newsletter to be passed on to Jan Bridle anytime; also if anyone has changed their email address or set up any new addresses could they please let Jan know. 

 Branch subs    Subscriptions for 2022 remain at £17 and are due now. Please support the branch by paying the £17 either by internet banking or cheque made out to REA Bournemouth.  For bank account details please contact John Cusack on 01202 517804 or by email. 

 Branch meetings and monthly lunches  

The Saturday morning breakfast/brunch meeting had increased members attending and enjoying a variety of breakfasts from scrambled eggs on toast, to a full English. They will continue on the 2nd Saturday of each month starting at 10.30am. As before please let John Cusack know if you will attend the brunch so we can give the RBL an idea of numbers. 

The next monthly lunch will be on Tuesday, 26^th April. This month’s menu is as follows. Please contact John Cusack to book your place and advise him of your menu. 

 Main Course £7.50   Chicken and Mushroom Pie  -  Beef Curry  -  Scampi  -  Cottage Pie  -  Salmon -  any Jacket Potato (£5)

 Puddings £3 Ice-cream Sundae  -  Strawberry Gateau  -  Sticky Toffee Pudding -  Chocolate Pudding

 AGM 2022

This will be on Saturday 14th of May following the brunch and starting at approximately 11.30, attendance at the breakfast beforehand is not compulsory.

Please do try to attend the AGM as this is the first one we have been able to hold since 2019. 

 

Annual Lunch 21^st May 2022

This will be at the same place as last year, the Ocean Beach Hotel in Bournemouth and, as last year, it will be subsidised with paid up members, wives and widows paying £6 and Guests £26.  More details and menu to follow.

 Ken and Lily Easthope

For those of you who remember Ken and Lily, they moved back to the midlands about seven years ago.  Well, Ken came to visit Dot and Bert Martin, who have always remained friends, but without Lily who is unfortunately now in a Care Home.  She has the start of dementia and has lost the use of her legs.  Ken did all he could, with help from carers, but to no avail. We all send our love and good wishes to them both.

 

Recognition Lesson no1 – Veterans

1                    You always use the 24 hour clock

2                    Whenever you spell something out you use the phonetic alphabet 

3                    You use acronyms thinking your civvie will know what you are talking about

4                    Your blood boils when you see civvies wearing DPM

5                    You think that eating every meal for a week with the same spoon that you licked clean and kept in the pocket of the same shirt you’ve worn all week is perfectly normal

6                    You always say ‘fancy a brew?’

7                    You have an unnatural ability to sleep anywhere and on anything

8                    You refer to everything you own as your 1157

Thanks to ‘Pull up a Sandbag’   Woodfield Publishing Ltd