August 16th, 2020

Dear Members & Friends of the Dutch Club Neerlandia.Sydney Last Sunday Suthy treated us with her really tasty Bami Goreng thank you Suthy.
Also a great big thank you to Reimer the accordion man for his great entertainment. For this Sunday Karel will be serving up his Uitsmijter and due to the Klaverjas players being at the club the Sunday after which happens to be the 3rd Sunday of the month there will be no Nasi Goreng on the day but hopefully it will be on the menu for the 23rd August.
Please remember that lunch will be served from 11.30am till 2.30pm. Just a reminder: As you know to be Covidsafe we still require people to write down their name and contact number upon entry to the club and please use the hand Sanitizers provided. Our Membership draw of $40.00 was not taken up by Mr J Menthox so for this Sunday it will climb to $50.00, a very nice sum, drawn at approx. 1.00pm Birthdays: For all of you having a Birthday on or about this Sunday such as;
Mr Ivan Gojkovic
Mr Colin Horne
Miss Martina Roos
And anyone else we may have missed, please let me know.
We wish you all a very Happy Birthday. Well we all have our moments:
Sean had long heard of the story of a family tradition. It seems that his father, his grandfather, and his great grandfather, had all been able to walk on water on their 18th birthday. On that special day, they would walk across the lake to their local pub, 'Murphy's Bar' for their first "legal" drink.
So when Sean's 18th birthday arrived, he and his friend Mick, took a boat, rowed out to the middle of the lake, and Sean stepped out of the boat. He immediately sank, and nearly drowned. He was only saved by Mick who managed to pull him back in the boat. Furious, and confused, he went to see his grandmother, and said
"Gran 'tis my 18th birthday. So why can't I walk across the water, like me father, me grandfather, and his father before him?"
Grandma looked deep into Sean's troubled eyes, looked at him with benevolent eyes and said, "Because, they were all born in January, and the lake was frozen over,
You were born in August, ye fecking idiot!" Keep well, keep Covidsafe and take care.
Groetjes van Gerry
Mob: 0408 40 90 25
President Dutch Club-Neerlandia
Dutch Australia Society Neerlandia Club Limited.
1 Grattan Crescent Frenchs Forest.