Newsletter 06 September 2023
- IT’S THE PITS
Please note if you are moving around the Basement Car Park on Tuesday 12 September that All Purpose Pumps will be on-site at around midday to check and service the storm-water & sewerage pits. - HESTER CLASS
Off the back of 11 Million Aussies watching the Matilda’s Womens’ Soccer team kick their way into the semi-final, there’s this beautiful story, ‘Bend it like Beckham’, of a girl from a traditional Indian family in London who aspires to play professional football. This comical drama is about following your youthful dream, while your parents dream is for you to learn to cook the perfect Chapatti. Screening Tuesday 12 September at 7:30pm sharp in Hester Class. - WIPE AWAY YOUR WORRIES
For those gym junkies using the well equipped Hester Canterbury Gym, you’ll now find the Sanitising Wipes in a holder on the wall near the table.
Notices:
SPRING IS IN THE AIR
It comes around quickly but our resident Gardeners are already looking for your tasteful recommendations of what to plant for the Hester Canterbury Spring – Summer Vegetable Garden. Please place your suggestions either in an email to me or write them down and place the note in the Manager’s Mailbox. Let’s grow on what we have got for a fresh bumper Summer harvest.
GAME SET AND MATCH
There may be whispers throughout the corridors that one of our true characters has taken up residency elsewhere. Well with his wishes I can confirm that Mr. Kooyong (Ian.Pi) is now serving up his dry wit permanently with wife Liz at Faversham House.
THE MILK SPOT
We have a brand new Milk Fridge for the coffee machine that’s more sensor-tive. Please ensure the milk is placed to the left hand side and towards the front when replacing bottle. Thanks.
Week One of the Winter Menu starts on Monday 11 September.
Please place any orders by 1pm the Thursday before.
Bon Appetit!
NOT A SOFT APPROACH TO PLASTIC
Boroondara Council is offering a temporary Soft Plastic Recycling Service until a more long term solution is sourced. They are looking to take small household items such as plastic bags, bread bags, fresh produce bags, biscuit and chip packets and bubble wrap, plus any other soft plastics you would not place in the usual recycle bin.
These items can be left at either the Boroondara Recycling & Waste Centre at 648 Riversdale Road, or Kew Depot Recycling Centre at 31 Hutchinson Drive. Please check with the centre before you drop off your waste to ensure that they are not full.
Please support this initiative if you can.
LAUGH YOUR WAY INTO THE WEEKEND
Before you turn up your nose at an animated movie, let me enlighten you on a bit of a secret. This weeks Funny Friday Matinee is the Disney classic ‘Aladdin’…… Do I still not have your interest?
Well, in the early 90’s Disney established that it was an arduous chore for most parents to sit complaisantly throughout a movie length kids cartoon, so crafted the concept to incorporate subtle adult humour into the screenplay. There first test case was Aladdin, discarding convention and rolling the dice by unleashing the comical genius, and genie, in Robin Williams who was given free licence to improvise his way through the dialogue, leaving the animators to keep up with him, not the other way around. What Disney achieved was ground breaking and masterful by producing a movie children of all ages can relate to, with more than enough mature humour to appease the adults in the audience.
Set to a magnificent soundtrack and fast pace animation beyond its years, take 90 minutes out of your day to just laugh and feel good. Friday 8 September at 1pm in Hester Class.
Just try and prove me wrong.