School Holidays

6th July
The weather has reverted to what it should be at this time of the year, thank goodness, (that wind is a killer!) and the tourists are certainly making the most of it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the caravan park so full since I’ve lived here. Obviously the word has got around about our hidden assets.
Speaking of assets. Big congratulations to Bill Holzwart for his 21st birthday. Friends, including “Charlie’s Angles”, travelled from interstate to help him celebratethis milestone. Must be something about twenty-firsts because, despite the gloomy predictions of ,“It’s always cold for Stamford Races,” the weather was kind for the evening and seems to have been the beginning of real holiday weather. Hope the kids enjoy their last week of freedom.
Welcome back to the Norths. James arrived Sunday to start work again on 6th, and Caroline flies up with the kids on the seventh. It will be great to have them back in town. Guess they will notice a few changes since they’ve been gone. Not the least, the mail service.
The new postal delivery started last Thursday and by now we’ll have all met the new post man. I’d forgotten, after having a mail box for so long, how nice it is to have the mail come to the door, even if only twice a week. And did you know that the price of a stamp has been increased—again? Sixty cents to post a letter now, so save those stamps you have for Christmas cards, is what the financial guru’s advise, as many post offices don’t carry the 5 cents stamps.
I was going to post another of Shirley’s recipes but, what the hey, it’s holidays so instead I posted this bit of fun:
BUT before I do—Can anyone PLEASE tell me how to cook Yellow Belly? So it’s edible???

EXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):
1. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
6. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
7. If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
8. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
9. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.
10. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
11. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
12. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.
13. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
14. Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.
15. He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
16.A calendar's days are numbered.
17. A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.
18. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
19. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
20. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
21. The short fortune teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
22. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
23. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
24. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
25. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
26. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
27. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
28. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
29. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.
30. The roundest knight at king Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
31. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
32. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
33. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
34. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
35. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
36. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
37. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
38. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
39. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
40. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here, I'll go on a head.
'41. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
42. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
43. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a Nurse said, 'No change yet.'
44. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
45. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

Laugh while you can, now a woman has ‘the power’, who knows where it will end?