The club meetings are held at the clubrooms of the Austin Healey Owners Club (19 Rosalie St, Springvale). The meetings are held on the first Friday of the month and starts at 8:15pm. All are welcome!

Meetings are held at the clubrooms for the February to November meetings. The December meeting is held in conjunction with the annual dinner and award presentations.

MEETINGS REPORT – Owen Crombie

Welcome to 2006, we’ve already had our first social event, viz the beach day, and now on to the regular monthly club meetings.

Due to the BBQ activities relating to the 40th anniversary, we will see you there wont we, we decided that the February meeting could not be a BBQ.

As usual, these problems can be solved by alliteration: in this case the Presidents Prawn and Potato Night (couldn’t find a ‘P’ word for night, sorry).

We will have these small crustaceans in abundance, also egg free potato salad, and we will drag in some psausages (the ‘p’ is silent as in Philadelphia) and stuff for the shellfish shy among you. Beverages will be available from the bar, and tea and coffee from the kitchen.

This means we use a very sharp knife to slice up a Prawn for us all to share, sort of like loaves and fishes, except that we have it planned.

As has become usual last year we will have a car on display maybe several, and of course we will have a raffle. Among the prizes will be 2 tickets to the Philip Island Historic races, valued at millions of dollars (that’s the cars not the tickets) worth winning all the same.

Plans for later in the year include guest speakers on topics technical historical, and cultural. A trivia free zone is planned, Club Night wise at least, but we may drag out the evergreen armchair rally, or a new innovation the armchair sprint meeting.

As always suggestions, wishes and ideas from the membership will be appreciated on ways to liven up our Spriting Lives.

Right! that’s it for now, but please remember, all us Committee folks want to see all you Member folks coming along and having a good time, renew old acquaintances relive old cliches, form new cliques etc etc.

In summary, rock on down and have a jolly good time!

Owen C

Subject: 10 pearls of wisdom
1. If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it will always be yours. If it doesn't come back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and doesn't appear to realize that you had set it free....... You either married it or gave birth to it.
2. Reason to smile: Every 7 minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring.
3. They keep telling us to get in touch with our bodies. Mine isn't all that communicative but I heard from it the other day after I said, "Body, how'd you like to go to the six o'clock class in vigorous toning?" Clear as a bell my body said, "Listen fatty....do it and die."
4. My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely.
5. The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
6. The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does.
7. Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
8. Amazing! You hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks two sizes!
9. Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.
10. I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, impulse buying, and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That's my idea of a perfect day.