Sat 30th: Jimble Horror Show

Conditions

Air Temp:                    7º
Water:                       16.4º
Vis:                            Crystal-clear at the beach
Jimbles:                    24 (cordon on The Point)
Sunrise:                    Beautiful
Injuries:                    24 persons copped a stinging
Swim plan:                Stick to the rocks … or head north
Drinky’s pool:            Nearly there

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Scary Movies this Sunday – Running from Dusk til Dawn!

One: Mars Attacks

 

Two: Freddy De Krueger – A Nightmare on Bower Street

 

Three: The Fly

 

Four: They Only Come Out at Night

 

Five: The Coneheads

Six: Camel from the Black Lagoon

 

It’s a Bank Holiday Feature:  Movies run from tomorrow Sunday at midnight – through til dawn Bank Monday.

All for the low low price of – ten units the lot

(See your local finance officer Jim Stackpool – one note issued free to each certified swimmer who’s done more than 405 kms)

 

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News News News

My pick for Best Dressed the other week goes to Brad …

 

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Yoga Sam has finally had a swim with the Bolds …

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Dorset: Everything is going to plan …

 

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John-Paul at 6.40 a.m: Feeling quietly confident …

 

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Kevin: About to have his very last swim with us in five minutes’ time (Transfering to the Tropics tomorrow)

 

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On the Kitchen Front:  Booty Camp Commandant displays logo from Ian’s home-made marmalades …

 

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Grass Status:  That other boot camp continues to flog and denude the median grass – with their heavy weights and cable rope … bastards.

 

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Clare, Belinda and Caroline: Busting to get their gear off at next Solstice (late August)

 

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A-Team’s third leg of Winter Triple Crown is today.  It has already been won by Tim’s brother James (the one with hair) – as; best two of three count.  Today’s race will be won by J-P (brown Uggies)

 

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Seven a.m. crowd getting the pre-swim Jimble Update from John Kelly … (As with all pics – click to enlarge)

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Jimble Strike of the day

6.15 swimmer Danny’s cheek is well-welted … and his lips are closing over

(Fireman Kenny is a close second – he’s also copped a flogging)

 

Special Event – Guest Speaker!

Monthly dinner

Tuesday 9^th August

6.30 pm at Bluewater Restaurant

The guest speaker for the night will be John Sear, a keen local SCUBA diver who has been diving at Shelly Beach for over 25 years and made over a thousand dives there.  In recent years his interest as an amateur photographer has driven him to start recording the fish species that can be found in the Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve (CTBAR). He shares his passion through his website www.ctbar.wordpress.com which aims to help educate divers, snorkelers and swimmers as they explore our local biodiversity hotspot. His talk is titled “What Lies Beneath”.

 

The cost of the dinner is only $25 a head and includes shared entrees, a selection of mains to choose (incl a vegetarian option), corkage (for byo wine only) and a little thank you for the staff. Glasses of beer or wine and desserts are also available at the special price of only $5 each. Numbers are limited, so bookings are essential:  To avoid disappointment and secure your spot please BOOK HERE NOW, 

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Who had one of these back in the day ..?

 

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Streetwork are  raising money (and awareness) of StreetWork Manly and to do this Jim Stackpool is helping organise a gig at North Manly Bowlo Saturday night 13th August. $35/head (best beforehand using the trybooking site – https://www.trybooking.com/206959)or will also take money at the door – the fees includes food, not drinks and music from the 2WS playlist – i.e. three chord songs – we don’t know any others!

Come prepared to dance.

 

Fundamentally StreetWork work with kids in Manly ‘under pressure’ or on the street. They mentor kids one-on-one until they are ‘out of danger’ of self-harm, crime, drugs, or worst of all suicide. These kids are ‘usually’ living at home, but not in safe environments. They struggle for funds and like most charities are held together but a dedicated few doing a lot in their spare time. We’ll have one of the guys from StreetWork (they have two counsellors now and trying to get another – they can’t meet demand) at the gig giving a really quick story about what they do.

Dancing to us … playing 1970’s, 1980’s rock’n’roll (three chords only) with drinks at pub prices!

 

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Our good ship Tardis … on the harbourside last week …

 

Have a good weekend, everyone … you have all started out well   🙂