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COO-EE SEPTEMBER 2017 www.edithburgh.org.au

EDITHBURGH

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P.S. We criticise others in order to justify ourselves.

I love you Mum

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5 single Mixed Colour Cartridges

Phone Brenda on 0408 832 393

Despite the dreadful weather that we have had so far this winter creating pools, mini lakes and streams as well as being detrimental to fishing, there are those that still find a way to go fishing just like these intrepid two did. But did they catch anything I wonder and what?

Memoir of a Holiday on Troubridge Island by Pam Tuck

Celtic characters in alphabetical order..

Brighid, expert in traditional learning, poetry, healing, and divination(filidhecht). Dagda, all competent. Filidh, preservation of cultural unity. Lugh, skilled in many arts together. Mannanan mac Lir, god of the sea.

Dad insisted we go away to this small island off the coast of Edithburgh. Mum has been real sick; she’s been in rehab ‘forever and a day’, as Dad says. Any way here we are, 6,000ks from anywhere while she gets better. I can’t see Josh for two whole weeks, and we were going to do lots together these school holidays. After seeing him every day at school I will miss him. This island is all sand. Dad says it’s a sand quay, where there were a lot of shipwrecks before they built the lighthouse. Now they’ve turned it off, and a big yacht ran aground here last week. They built a new lighthouse on the coast. Gee! Grownups are daft! “I won’t be long Dad,” I called out as I pulled on my ragged edge cut offs. “It’s not even as far as walking around the Mall.” He couldn’t have cared less. He was busy as usual twittering his Sin Fein buddies; as usual Mum’s lying down feeling sorry for herself. They couldn’t care less where I am. I kicked at the sand and jumped in the puddles left behind by the receding tide. Following the sand ripples, I picked up a few shells. Josh would like the ones that look like boobs. The book back at the house says they are where the jelly fish come from. Can’t see how? Then I found the coin, I guess it’s really an amulet. There’s an entwined rope pattern around the edge, and an indented cross through from top to bottom and side to side. It looks real old. rubbed the sand out of the hollows with my pointer finger. And wow! Stars, sea, trees, flashing lightning; everything went by so fast I was giddy.

I am in a place like Dad’s stories. It all feels like a dream. I am going to write everything down and I will hide it, I don’t trust everybody here. I will start with when I arrived. Boy! Was I ever confused!

I was at some kind of dinner in a big hall. The first thing I noticed was the smell! Smoke and sweat! Phfew! I gawped at my hands, covered in blue intertwined rope patterns. Unreal! I spent all my pocket money on that black and silver nail polish, all gone! And that music! I know it from somewhere. Sounds familiar, rather have mine though. Where’s my i-pod, where have I put it? I took it with me to the beach. I was all of a twitter, not knowing where I was. There were huge open fires with people sitting at long benches spread around the room. Somehow it was familiar; but strange as well. The man on my right leaned forward to fill my glass, and gave me a stern look. “You look like a simpleton, close your mouth.” “What’s going on?” I asked. He looked down his nose at me. “It’s your feast day. See! Look at them. They all love you.” He’s holding a leg of meat and gnawing at it, while others are cutting off smaller pieces with a knife, and eating from it. It’s a wonder they don’t cut their lips. My meat is on a slab of bread like a plate. Gross! And his awful clothes! He had on a long vest in squares of every color, straight legged trousers tucked in high boots, and a fur cloak. With a shudder I realized I was thinking like my mum. ‘Who does this dude think he is? One of those old movie actors! I must be in a movie.’ Then I looked at myself. What had happened to my cut offs? I wore a long belted dress with a cape clasped on my left shoulder. It must be a movie set. I looked around; where’s the cameras?

The huge double wooden doors opened with a large bang, shouting, screaming men rushed in, waving humongous swords around there heads and bringing them down on those nearest them. It was ghastly. Heads were rolling around like bowling balls, and blood gushed everywhere. Sick! I felt my body change; my neck grew long, and I sprouted white wings and hissing I flew above their heads. I had become a large white swan. I avoided their arrows as I dived on them, snapping and beating them with my wings. “Escape, Brighid, go quickly.” The last I saw of him as I flew away he seemed to be melting into a haze with the smoke in the hall. I saw no more as I flew into the night, to finally settle under the bushes by the lake. I realized it wasn’t a dream, or a movie set. This is for real, I thought. What’s happening to me?

“Brighid, Brighid,” I heard him calling. I had fallen asleep with my head tucked under my wing. The movie star look-a-like came strolling down the bank, grinning, and beckoning to me. As I returned to human form I went to meet him, somehow I knew I was a healer. “I will go and care for the wounded.” I told him. ‘Lugh’ my brain told me. ‘His name is Lugh’. “Thank Filidh! We are safe for now.” He called out. “It was Manannan mac Lir’s people again. They are all dead, but more will come.” Come now to the council chamber; Dagda has called a war council.

While I was caring for the wounded I overheard one of the soldiers questioning the style of arrows used in the fight. “These aren’t Manannan’s arrows.” “Well!” Lugh replied abruptly. “They must be spoils from another battle.” “No. Look.” He said.” These arrows have three feathers, like ours. The arrows we retrieved from past battles with Manannan all have four. These are like ours.” I thought no more of it until later.

My room is in a turret, with a tiny window looking down a long valley to the sea. They call it the Keep; it’s where the Toffs live, tucked away safely in the middle of the castle walls. There’s thin leather like paper and a pen (with ink!), on a desk under the window. There’s not much light, only several candles, and a blazing fire. No power or twitter here. But somehow I know this life I am in. They call this place Tintagel. One of Dad’s DVDs is about it and some of the peoples’ names are the same too. He called it a mythical place, and the start of Irish beliefs; reckons when I am older he will take us there. Wish I had taken more notice when he went on and on about it.

I have settled into my knowledge now. It’s something to do with the amulet I found in the sand. Lugh has a cross that fits into the hollows to make it one piece. He keeps asking for mine, but I don’t trust him. He’s weird. Yesterday I saw him talking to a man in the corner hidden by the stables, he kept pointing up at my room. After he gave him something the man went out the little gate by the drawbridge. It all looked very sneaky. To be continued.

NEWS FROM EDITHBURGH COMMUNITY CHURCH:

1) NAME CHANGE

On Sunday the 20th August we officially changed for our church name from Edithburgh Community Church to ‘Light Church’ and you will soon see our new logo around on our signage, building and correspondence. Although we have changed our name we remain part of the ACC (Australian Christian Churches).

Why the change?

Here’s a few thoughts behind the reasoning:

• Those who have been associated with our church will know that over the 50 plus years of its existence, our church has consistently been referred to as a lighthouse or a beacon that shines beyond its location. Some would know that our church has a history of reaching out to other regions and even planting churches. Minlaton and Kadina ACC churches were both originally planted out of our church at Edithburgh.

• Our current name is location-centric and although we love Edithburgh, our people actually come from all over Southern Yorke Peninsula and we wanted a name that can translate to more than one town.

• We are preparing to launch a campus in Ardrossan over the next few months, and the new name is one we can use to launch that campus as well.

• With our opening, it is a great time to set up for the future as we establish new signage, printing, website (www.lightchurch.co).

• The light globe in our logo represents the concept of connecting in, being filled with God's Spirit, and shining out as a light to others.

• The light globe also represents new ideas, creativity and innovation, which we believe we are called to champion in our community.

2) OFFICIAL DEDICATION

Although it’s taken a while with a lot of volunteer hours, our facility is soon to be finished with the addition of an entrance canopy. We plan to have an official facility dedication service on Sunday, September 17th at 4:00pm and we invite all in our community to attend. We will conduct facility tours from 3pm that day before the service if anyone wants to look around. We want to promote our venue for people to hire/use and enjoy having some groups already take advantage of the centre.

Sincerely,

Pastor Darren Braund

Light Church, Edithburgh

meet your community

1.What is something you’ve done that you are really proud of? Escaped humble beginnings to become a graphic designer

2. What’s on top of your bucket list?

Play bagpipes in a kilt in Scotland

3. If you had a super power, what would it be? Sexual magnetism

4. What makes you really happy? Waking up in the morning

5. Do you have any regrets? Yes, I’ve had a few

6. What really matters to you? Honour

7. If you could go anywhere all expenses paid, where would you go? Norway—because I could be a viking

8. Who is the most unforgettable character you’ve ever met? Kevin Robinson at the Advertiser

9. What three words would you use to describe yourself? Good, better, best

10. Who would be you ideal dinner guests? Dave Gilmour, Paul McCartney, Sidney Poitier, Richard Green, W.C. Fields

11. if you could change one thing about the world, what would it be? Delete Do gooders

12. If you could change one thing about yourself; what would it be? Very little.

DARRYL LEWIS Designer/Artist. Father of 4 wonderful children, 3 girls and 1 boy. Has been coming to Edithburgh for 36 years and a resident for 3. Passions include: winning raffles on Friday night, being a member of cunny funts, helping people, taking the rubber boat (Donald) to Wool Bay to fish, jelly wrestling. Absolutely love living in Edithburgh wouldn't live anywhere else.

No one knows the precise source of the expression, “raining cats and dogs”, but we can be sure that it didn't originate because animals fell from the sky. It maybe the fact that dead animals and other debris were sometimes washed up in the streets after heavy rain. The drainage in 17th century Europe was typically poor so they would, during heavy rains, disgorge any of the animal corpses that had accumulated in them. 16th century European peasant homes frequently were thatched and animals sought shelter from the elements there and would fall out during heavy rains. Norse Mythology could also be involved as cats were believed to represent the wind and dogs represented rain. Different animals represented different weather and natural phenomenon. Archaic French word catdoupe is a waterfall or cataract, lightning and thunder sounds like that of a cat/dog fight, cats had a big influence on the weather, and the sky dog Odin was attended to by wolves according to Norse Mythology. On the theories go. Does it really matter? We all know what it means don’t we?

No you’re not dreaming, it isn’t Easter. This month there is something different from the usual ‘Birds of the Heel’ by Jeffrey Robinson. Jeffrey has sent in this article about hares which can be seen around Edithburgh (and Ireland). Have you seen any? Perhaps you did but just thought they were odd looking pesky rabbits!

Hare: European brown hare

Have you been lucky enough to see the hares in the Native Tree Reserve? Terry Braund asked if I could take some photographs of the brown hare.

The European brown hare was introduced into Britain and Ireland at different times. It has been present in England for about 3000 years and over of hundred years ago into Ireland. In Britain and Ireland, it has displaced the mountain or Irish hare that have been there for thousands of years. There are arguments that the brown hare should be removed from Ireland or even the rest of Britain as they are not native.

It should be no surprise therefore that it was brought to Australia in the nineteenth century. It looks completely different from the rabbit that is much commoner. A really good opportunity came in Ireland where we were lucky enough to see three hares feeding in the garden of the cottage we rented outside Dunfanaghy. One of the three was a young hare that is called a leveret. Hares are much larger than rabbits with long legs, high-set eyes and bigger ears.

Finally, you should look for a lovely new book, The Way of the Hare by Marianne Taylor and just published by Bloomsbury.

and Edithburgh

Brown hare in Ireland

and Edithburgh entering the golf course

Brown hare in Ireland

‘In this magnificent and haunting memoir of murder, sharks and rubber goods, Robert Drewe proves himself too subtle and too adventurous a writer to settle for “the truth, plain and simple”. He creates instead a resurrection of his boyhood in Australia which is as ornamented, engaging and ambitious as any great novel.’

JIM CRACE

Robert Drewe wrote this memoir in 2000. It starts in 1949 when aged 6, he moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth. He vividly recalls the west coast lifestyle, his childhood, the water, the sand, with fondness and humour. As he grows up he describes suburbia in the 50s and laces his story with pop culture references — music, films , even the Watkins man gets a mention. It’s a time of great optimism, strong social mores, and an appealing innocence.

Against this middleclass background eight random people are murdered, shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, hacked, strangled and run down with a car. Robert knows the murderer and also one of the victims. Many people are deeply affected not the least the young Robert Drewe.

This book and many others are

available from Edithburgh

Library Depot

Open Wednesday 1pm—3pm and

Saturday 9am-10am

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of The Bakehouse Arts & Crafts Inc Monday 30th October 2pm in the Edithburgh Institute Meeting Room.

Please come along to show your continuing support for Edithburgh’s Community Craft Shop In its 31st year the Bakehouse Arts & Crafts shop prospers thanks to the talented folk who consign their handcrafted items to stock the shelves and to the willing shop helpers. As a charity organisation, profits are donated to community projects. Although the wintry weather has kept most people indoors, hand crafted beanies and scarves have been very popular purchases for those willing to brave the elements! Spring is now the time to start getting ideas for Christmas and other gifts, to find that special handmade card or baby gift, or just to visit and have a chat with our dedicated volunteers. Visitors travelling through Edithburgh are disappointed to discover that the shop is closed, especially if they are unable to call back at another time. Extra helpers, particularly on a regular basis, would enable us to guarantee the daily opening times of 10am-4pm instead of, “subject to the availability of volunteers”! If you enjoy meeting people from all over the world (literally – just check out our visitors’ book) and sharing what our unique area has to offer, we’d love to hear that you’d like to help.

SHOP HELPERS NEEDED - Centrelink ‘Newstart’ approved For information: visit the shop in Edith Street (next to the Museum)

or call one of the committee members listed above.

NEWS FROM “THE BAKEHOUSE”

Museum Grounds EDITHBURGH SA 5583 (PO Box 277) President: Rhody Short8852 8206 - Secretary: Virginia Reuther 8852 8204

Treasurer: Kath Haddow 8852 6399 or 0408895733

The Bakehouse Arts & Crafts Inc. Edithburgh SA

“NUGGETTS NOSH”

SLOW ROASTED STICKY ORANGE

MARMALADE AND 5 SPICE PORK

Serves 8. Prep 15mins. Cook. 4hrs + 20mins.

INGREDIENTS:- 1/3 cup orange marmalade, 1 tsp Chinese 5 spice powder, 4cm pce finely grated ginger, 2kg boneless pork shoulder, 1 whole fist garlic cut in 1/2 crossways, 1 bunch bok choy and 1 of pak choy, both halved lengthways, 150g snow peas, 2 tspns sesame oil, 1 tbsp oyster sce, steamed white long grained rice, to serve.

METHOD:-

1:- preheat oven to 200/180.C fan forced. Place a wire rack inside a roasting tray.

2:- combine marmalade, Chinese 5 spice, and ginger in a bowl. Brush 2/3 of mix over both sides of pork. Place pork, skin side up, on wire rack. Season with salt and pepper and bung in the ov-en. Reduce temp to 150/130.FF and roast for 3hrs. Sounds daft I know but it works beautifully. After 3hrs brush pork with remaining marinade. Add garlic cut side up, and roast for 1hr, till tender.

3:- Remove pork from oven and reserve garlic. Set pork aside to rest covered loosely with foil, and increase oven temp to 200/180.ff

4:- Place bok choy, pak choy, snow peas and reserved garlic in the pan without wire rack. Drizzle with sesame oil and oyster sce, season well. Roast for 15 to 20mins till veg is just charred and just tender.

5:- Slice pork and serve with steamed rice, roasted greens, and a couple of sweet roasted garlic cloves each, the garlic now has a sweet, sticky flavour, not like raw garlic, I think you'll like it, crack a tinny, you've earned it, sit back and listen to the accolades you so richly deserve.

WELL DONE

The Lobethal Harmony Club’s 20 strong male voice choir returned to Edithburgh on Sunday 30th July for its third visit and once again they delighted the audience. From their theme song opening number, Lobethal Valley of Praise, to their final bracket, Now is the Hour and Go Now in Peace, the 107 year old Edithburgh Uniting Church provided an acoustically ideal venue for the choir and supporting artists. The varied program included folk, country, gospel, classical, and toe-tapping songs, spanning many decades of music composers.

Local SYP musicians, from nine year old Ruby Barlow (piano), to ninety one (and a half) year old Arthur Parker (vocal) along with Eb Churchill (piano and flute), and duo Colin Parker and Carol Coulter (guitar and vocals), most ably provided supporting items. Ruby and Eb were introduced by music teacher Helen Stockings.

The audience had their turn to stretch their vocal chords singing, “Pack up your troubles” and “It’s a long way to Tipperary”, both at the same time!! The choir’s “Wanna-be-troupe” (which included two of women folk) had the audience in stitches with their very animated rendition of “If I were not upon the stage”. Well-rehearsed, precision timed actions ensured that no one was injured during their item! The recitation of “The Man from Ironbark” rekindled memories for many who learnt lengthy poems in their school days and added variety to the program.

$1,000 from ticket sales/donations will be benefit “The Friends of Yorketown Hospital”. The Uniting Church folk who hosted the concert, sincerely thank the community for supporting this event and for their help with advertising, ticket sales, loan of items, accommodation and catering.

For the love of singing and the fellowship it provides, this male voice choir, formed in 1878, participates in 12-15 concerts each year to assist local and regional charities with fundraising ventures. We were privileged to be included in their 2017 event schedule and we look forward to them returning to Yorke Peninsula in the future.

Musical treat at EDITHBURGH

Lobethal Harmony Club with Kath Haddow (Chairman EUC), Sandra Millowick (Sec/Treas EUC), Arthur Parker, Eb Churchill

(Minlaton), Ruby Barlow (Coobowie), Colin Parker and Carol Coulter

Eb Churchill, Helen Stockings Ruby Barlow

Open 11am to 4pm Saturdays & Sundays

or by appointment

Please ring 8852 6541 or 8852 6410 or 8852 6273

DRU YOGA CLASSES Monday 7.00 – 8.30 pm Supper Room Edithburgh Institute Wednesday 5.00 – 6.15 pm Drama Room Yorketown Area School Classes during school term only Lisa Hendry 0409526391

Please bring: A mat A cushion A blanket A drink of water

BERNHARDT’S

ALL HOURS 7 DAYS

Edithburgh: 0408 818 088

Ardrossan: 0408 811 334

Active for Life (based around Easy Moves for Active Ageing)

Exercise classes for all age groups Low impact, light weights, thera bands , chi balls and relaxation. Males and Females welcome. Edithburgh Community Church Tuesday 4pm, Thursday 9.30 am. $10 per class. Please bring a water bottle, yoga mat (if you have one), wear comfortable

clothing and supportive shoes.

Please ring 0417807993

Do you struggle with your thoughts? Are fearful, stressed, suffer from anxiety or depressive moods?

Mindfulness classes are held in Yorketown each Wednesday morning, 10am-11am at the Meridian Rooms

For bookings or enquiries please contact Kay on 0417807993

$20 per class, includes worksheets.

ANTS, ANTS AND MORE ANTS

Go for a picnic or a quiet spot to sit in the sun and read a book, and what climbs up your leg, or bites your ankles? Ants! Intrepid Park walker Gloria Wyatt brought the Bull ants to our notice, their general habits and the way they manage their homes in a flood. Our delightful Dev Paterson Park has many varieties of ants, a virtual city of under and above ground culture. Walk a little way into the park and you can spend an interesting hour or so watching them go about their business. They carry objects triple or more their size, and if you have inadvertently trodden on a few an extremely busy contingent arrives to carry their sorry little bodies away. Many of the species carry the corpses to their ant cemetery, where the bodies decompose with other waste material from the nest.

There are approximately 1300 varieties of ants in Australia, and I suspect we have at least a quarter of them here in the park. According to Archie McArthur OAM (S.A. Museum site) the Camponatus ants, a sub family of Formiciden, are all over Australia, but particularly prominent from the west of Spencers Gulf to the south eastern border of South Australia. He advises, “Their ubiquity, abundance and diversity make them useful in environmental assessment, but their usefulness is limited by the availability of tools for their identification.” How do you hold an ant still to measure its length? On a walk through the park to try to identify some of the varieties of species I was completely nonplussed, apart from size how can an amateur identify species, and the social structure within each diverse group of Queen, workers and so on. Not only are there thousands of ants in our park, but although their social structures are similar, they possibly have a greater variety of colonies than in our diverse human contingent.

The nuptial flights consist of young winged females and winged males, from all the separate colonies within a mating species, in a fly off. Mating takes place in the air and the young queen stores the semen she has collected in a special sac. The males soon die while the young queen, if she survives predators, searches for a suitable nest site, discards her wings, digs a hole, and starts laying eggs to establish a new colony.

The social structure consists of at least one female (queen) and a number of winged females and males waiting to leave the nest for their nuptial flight. There is a variation in shape, size, and colour in the worker ants

depending on their caste and what kind of work they do in the ant society.

When next you sit in the sun, eating your picnic and watching the hurried little ants going about their business; think of their similarity to our social structure, and when you inadvertently tread on one mentally offer them a flower for the grave of the small body where it will be taken by its compatriots.

Pam Tuck

Restaurant and Bar Meals

TAB, Keno. Pokies

10 Ensuite units

Cold Beer

Live Entertainment

Ph. 88526013

Troubridge Hotel / Motel Edithburgh

Edithburgh Community Garage Sale and

Markets.

Sunday September 10th Blanche St

Come & support this growing initiative

Stalls available

Contact Deb 0427 056 580

Social tennis in Edithburgh every Tuesday and Thursday at 9am. Players must have a knowledge of the game. Become a social member of the Edithburgh tennis club - that way no court costs. We enjoy ourselves, keep fit, play mainly doubles, share a joke, plenty of banter and go for a coffee afterwards and grateful we can still be active. The players are all ages and play to their own pace and love it. We have 3 courts and usually go for 1 hour, no need to ring just rock up when you can and don’t forget to bring your own special sense of humour - you will need it.

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Peter Gripton by email at bgjmpp4@adam.com.au Terry Braund by email at terrybraund@internode.on.net Pam Tuck, Coobowie, by email at pamphil1941@gmail.com Jennifer Robyn, by email at edithburghartisan@gmail.com

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