June is Rotary Fellowships Month
Today’s Bulletin has a lovely article by Charlotte England about Rotary Fellowship in general, and we shall follow up next week with something about the various Rotary Fellowships that exist.
Have you a favourite Rotary Fellowship? Golfing? Sky Diving?
Just let us know . . .
That’s queer . . .
A Twitter account run by the European Commission has marked the start of Pride Month in June by declaring that the “future is queer” and promoting a new campaign.
The same post was made by The European Union programme for education, youth, training and sport Erasmus+, as well as the EU programme for the cultural and media sectors Creative Europe.
The U.S. Marine Corps marked the start of Pride month with an image of a combat helmet adorned with rainbow-colored bullets on Wednesday — sparking outrage over the mixing of warfare and wokeness.
A man disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair has thrown cake at the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting at the Louvre in Paris, as a climate protest.
The piece, which was undamaged, was left with white cream smeared across its protective glass.
The perpetrator, seen wearing a wig and lipstick, urged people to "think of the Earth" while being led from the scene.
The incident on Sunday was described by witnesses as being "jaw-dropping". What do you think?
“What a shrewd comment on the impotence of modern protest.” - BRANDON FARRIER, UNEMPLOYED
“This is why you leave seniors at the entrance and pick them up on the way out.” - JANELLE CRONIN, SOAP CARVER
“Laugh all you want, but this man’s bold actions are raising major awareness of what you can throw a cake on.” - LEE DUVAL, SPLIT-END TRIMMER
Tyre Extinguishers and Deflationists
Climate crazies in two different Scottish cities (Glasgow and Edinburgh) have begun competing to see which group can vandalise the greatest number of SUVs under the auspices of fighting climate change.
Known as the Tyre Extinguishers and Deflationists, both groups have been going around Scottish suburbs deflating the tires of SUVs, seemingly in hopes of rendering the vehicles at least temporarily inoperable. The Deflationists group also reportedly applied fake parking tickets to some vehicles. They claim that around 4,000 SUVs have been what they euphemistically call “disarmed” worldwide since they started their reign of climate craziness.
Monkeypox
Those showing symptoms of the monkeypox virus should avoid having sex with other people, British government experts have advised those suffering from the disease. The current outbreak disproportionately affects the country’s so-called “MSM” population, which stands for “men who have sex with men”.
Perhaps they should tell them it would fix Climate Change: that might help both diseases.
Rotary Safe Families
How nice to have versatile members who can entertain and educate us when we have a glitch in the programme! No sooner had Dorothy Gilmour got her breath back after her “Member Behind the Badge” presentation, and there she was today, again behind the podium. Dorothy introduced us to the “Rotary Safe Families” with a talk and movie on “Elder Abuse” .
We see her here with Julie Collette and Robyn Sparks.
How nice to see President Andrew’s Lingua File back in our Bulletin.
Yes, we Bookworms know all about “dreamt”: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”- Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier.
We meet on Monday 13 June to discuss our latest book The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Give President Andrew a call if you'd like to join in.
But I'd never heard of “spelling” used as resting before I came to Australia. As in spelling a racehorse.
As Thomas Wright (Fats) Waller said:"One never knows, do one?".
Changeover Dinner.
Whoopeee! Hasn’t it come around quickly? It doesn’t seem a year since President Tilak handed the Chain of Office to our new President, Andrew Crockett. And now Andrew will do some prestidigitation, and pass the Chain to himself. Very tricky!
Charlotte England reminds us: RSVPs must be no later that 17th June so that we can give Kooyong accurate numbers for the evening.
TTFN
