 Quote of the week WORDS OF WISDOM Here are some facts about the 1500s Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. • Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men,then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!" • In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot.They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old". • England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, "saved by the bell" or was "considered a dead ringer". BLOG SPOT The buzz this week has been getting the blog site underway. Feel free to visit the blog-www.iscwwyndhamlifeactivities.blogspot.com/ I have had some feedback. I would encourage you all to become “Followers” and you can post anything that is of interest to all your friends from Life Activities. Go on and have a look, even if it is just for curiosity. I will keep the weekly Newsletter going just to keep up with week to week events WYNDHAM LIFE ACTIVITIES GROUP The Wyndham life Activities Club provides all members of the ISCW aged 45 years and over, the opportunity to participate in a range of different activities as they experience life changing events such as retirement, losing a
partner or moving into a new area. The CLUB is a sub-committee of the ISCW and is a non for profit committee.It has a committee and convenor group that meet on the third Wednesday of every month.The convenors are the persons who voluntarily organise the events for their groups.
   "STITCH AND BITCH" 2010 XMAS CELEBRATIONS    2010 MAHJONG CHAMPION ENJOYING MORNING MELODIES WITH "GABRIELLE" THE 2010 COMMITTEE
PRESIDENT: John Faranda
VICE SECRETARY: Stewart Banks
SECRETARY: Rosemary Barbetta
TREASURER: Don Rawding COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Nancy Banks - Mahjong Alan and Heather Kendall - Caravanning Mario Piovesan - Gardening Lorraine Pulford - Games Aileen Rawding - Stitch and Bitch Denise Rowles - Stitch and Bitch Bill Strong - Photography Marion Kirkwood - Book Club Ray Wilson - Golf Audrey Miller - Sunday Walking HOW TO JOIN: Membership of the I.S.C.W allows you to participate in any of the activities that are offered below. But you will need to be a financial member of the ISCW for the current year in order to be able to be part of Wyndham Life Activities.
Cost is kept to a minimum as we are able to utilise the facilities offered at the Club especially in the Members area. The group organises social events for its members to interact and meet new people-the atmosphere is always friendly and caring.Trivia Night,a Caberat, Guest Speaker, Excursions and dinner together at the Club bistro are
all available for you to enjoy. WYNDHAM LIFE ACTIVITIES WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
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