Dear Members & Friends of the Dutch Club Neerlandia/Sydney 05:05:2024 Neerlandia-Sydney (facebook) Just a reminder that the replacement of the parquetry floor will commence on Friday the 17th May and therefore the club will be closed on Saturday the18th, Sunday the 19th, Monday the 20th, Tuesday the 21st, Wednesday the 22nd & Thursday the 23rd and will reopen on Friday the 24th of May. We are going ahead with the King’s Birthday celebration on the 5th May with the help of ‘De School De Kangoeroe’, the celebration will be similar to last year, mind you we hope the weather is going to be in our favour. Lola’s “Rendang” went over very well last Sunday a very tasty dish. Thank you Lola. I would like to thank Lola, Andre, Henny, Lesley, Rakhi, Karel and Iris & Jeroen for helping out in the kitchen with Cor in the bar and Marius & Coco helping out in the shop. As far as this Sunday’s menu is concerned it will be a little bit different so check the notice board, it being Koningsdag. A reminder: Please, as you know, a little help on Sundays would be really nice so when you finish your meal and are about to leave could you please return your crockery etc. to the table adjacent to the kitchen door as this would be a great help to the volunteers. It was great to see Tony & Loraine in the club last Sunday and hopefully Victor will be back with us shortly. We received a fresh supply of Amstel bier plus we also received some Castle lager from South Africa as supplies from the Netherlands are now controlled by 2 foreign companies such as Asahi beverages and this one will NOT import Grolsch pilsner any longer. – “The Dutch Club is looking for an importer” Birthdays for this weekend: Mr. Olof Elvingson. Mrs. Annie Reynen. Mrs. Siebe Greive. Mr. Hans Jourdan. We wish you all a very Happy Birthday – Gefeliciteerd. Membership Draw: The membership draw of $80.00 was not taken up by Ms.Lilly Young so for Sunday the 12th it will climb to $90.00 – as there will not be a draw on Sunday the 5th due to Konings Dag. Nog eventjes een mopje: Een zesjarig meisje stapt een apotheek binnen en vraagt dood-leuk om de pil. De juffrouw is natuurlijk stomverbaast en ze vraagt dan ook: ‘Maar kleine meid, waar heb jij vredesnaam de pil voor nodig. Zegt het kind: “Ik heb al zeven poppen en nu wil ik er geen meer.’ An Irishman took his son to the bar on his birthday to buy him his first drink. The father bought his son a stout, but he didn’t like it and did not want to drink it. The father decided to drink it for him and ordered an ale instead. He didn’t like it either. So, the father drank it and ordered him a cider. Lager, cider, cream ale, stout.... he didn’t like any of them, so the father drank them and ordered whisky instead. He didn’t like any of the Irish whiskeys the father ordered, so the old man drank them and decided to give up. By the time they left the bar. The father was so drunk he could barely push his son’s stroller home. So there you have it-as it is goodnight from him and goodnight from me. Groetjes van Gerry Mob: 0408 40 90 25 President Dutch Club Neerlandia/Sydney Dutch Australia Society Neerlandia Club limited. 1 Grattan Crescent Frenchs Forest 2086 PO Box 64 Forestville NSW 2087 The club is open on Sundays from 11.00 – 3.00pm We are now in our 70th year. www.dasneerlandia.org affiliated with the Federation of Netherlands Societies Limited www.dutchfederation.com.au