NEWSLETTER JULY 2022

Newsletter for  July 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 by phone or by email, numbers above. 

 

Branch meetings and monthly lunches  

These are informal, social meetings where any news etc can be passed on to those attending, and added to the newsletter for others to read.  The Saturday morning breakfast/brunch meeting continues 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. 

This month the lunch will be on Tuesday, 26^th July. 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  Roast Beef  -  Chicken & Mushroom Pie  -  Salmon  -  Fish Pie -  Chicken & Bacon Salad - any Jacket Potato (£5)

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

       ( Advanced notice – August’s lunch will be on the 30^th instead of the 23^rd and there will be no        Breakfast meeting or lunch in October. )

 

Falklands 40 Celebration 

On 14^th June 2022 memorials were held across the country to celebrate the passing of 40 years since the ending of the Falklands war. Maurice Pearson paraded the Branch Standard at the  Falklands War Remembrance  Service in Wimborne Minster and Peter Bridle, a Falklands veteran, attended the memorial service in Poole.

Trip to Chatham

The trip to Chatham to visit both the REA Museum at Bromptom and Chatham Historic Dockyard. looks likely go ahead on 14/15 September 2022. The coach would leave from Ferndown (cars can be left at the RBL Club), travel to Chatham, visit the museum in the afternoon, and stay overnight at the King Charles Hotel opposite the museum, with dinner and breakfast the next morning.                      

There is a visit to the Chatham Historic Dockyard the next morning, then coach home to

Ferndown. The estimated cost of this would be around £150 per person. The branch may be able  to subsidise this a little for paid up members, wives and widows who attend branch functions regularly. There are still some places available but you must let Maurice know as soon as possible  and say whether you would want a double, twin or single room.

Eating in the 50s

1.        Pasta was not eaten

2.        Curry was a surname

3.        A takeaway was a mathematical problem

4.        A Pizza was something to do with a leaning tower

5.        Crisps were plain, the only choice was whether to add salt or not

6.        Rice was only eaten as a milk pudding

7.        A ‘Big Mac’ was what we wore when it was raining

8.        Oil was for lubrication, fat was for cooking

9.        Olive oil was for ear-ache

10.   Tea was made in a teapot and never green

11.   Brown bread was something only poor people ate

12.   Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days and was regarded as white gold. Cubed sugar was regarded as posh

13.   Fish didn’t have fingers

14.   Eating raw fish was called poverty not sushi

15.   None of us had ever heard of yoghurt

16.   Healthy food consisted of anything edible

17.   People who didn’t peel potatoes were regarded as lazy

18.   Indian restaurants were only found in India

19.   Cooking outside was called camping

20.   Kebab was  not even a word never mind a food

21.   Seaweed was not a recognised food

22.   Prunes were medicinal

23.   Surprisingly muesli was readily available, it was called cattle feed

24.   Water came out of the tap. If someone had suggested bottling it and charging more than petrol for it they would have become a laughing stock

25.   And the things which we never had on the table in the 50s and 60s were elbows or phones