Newsletter No. 7: March 2001

April Birthdays 
Brant Brindley Lyell 3rd 
Michael John Couch 11th 
Jane Elizabeth Turnbull 12th 
Ann Francis Collins 14th 
Daniel Alexander Couch 14th 
Kaye Lesley Lyell 23rd 
Frederick Robert Turnbull 27th 
Christian James White 28th 
Ian Turner 29th 
Peter James Wood 30th 
Terrence Paul Lyell 30th 

May Birthdays 
Thomas James Lyell 7th 
Prudence Carly Lyell 9th 
Amanda Joan White 14th 
Edward Wood 15th 
Elise Michelle Wood 21st 
Luke Camish 25th 

Birthday Milestones: In April Fred Turnbull will be 65 he can then retire and Peter Wood will be 40, in May Thomas Lyell will be 21 

Quote of the Day: Time may be a great healer, but it is a lousy beautician 

Joke of the Day: Little Tim was in the garden filling in a hole when his neighbour peered over the fence. Interested in what the youngster was up to he asked, "What are you up to then Tim?" 
"My goldfish died " replied Tim tearfully, without looking up ,"and I have just buried him" 
The neighbour was concerned " That's an awfully big hole for a gold fish, isn't it?" 
Tim patted down the last pile of dirt then replied" that's because he is inside your bloody cat" 

and also Tim arrived home from school in tears, When his mother inquired what happened at school he told her that the teacher had asked all those who wanted to go to heaven to put their hands up. 'You put your hand I hope" she asked. "No" he sobbed." You told me to come straight home" 

Family Profile: Kevin James Turner

D.O.B. 24th July 1953
Resides in Boronia Victoria 
Occupation: Various, finished a Plumbing Apprenticeship in 1974, and worked in the trade around Australia until getting a job as a maintenance plumber at a hospital in Saudi Arabia, spent 12 months in Saudi, where he met Liz who was working there as a midwife. They were married in the U.K. and lived there for 2 years and moved to Australia in 1985. The next couple of years were spent learning what he could about leadlighting from his father. After working in the trade until 1996 he headed to W.A. and got a labouring job at Telfer Goldmine, then to Tindal Airforce Base in the N.T. until rupturing a disc in his back at the end of 1997. He has not been working since, and is looking at something not involving bending/lifting etc. He says there must be openings for a fat, bald, 48year old, hasbeen somewhere. 
Children: Ian who is 14 in April and has size 12 hoofs to help send the leather airbag on its way, he follows Geelong (as Kevin does since South Melb went to Sydney). He loves most sports, played basketball, T ball, had a go at tennis for a while, and a couple of months boxing, but now it's footy or cricket every season. 
Hobbies/ Interests: Watch Ian play both sports, reading, music and aviation (Kevin didn't mention that he is a qualified pilot -ed.) 
Favourite Entertainer: Norman Gunston. 
Favourite C.D: Senor Blues, Taj Mahal 
Favourite Movie: The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis) 
Favourite TV Show: Test Pattern 
Favourite Holiday Destination: Northern Territory 
Favourite Meal: Pies 
Favourite Book: The Celestine Prophecies 
Car I Drive: Kingswood 
Famous Person I would like to dine with: Charles Kingsford Smith 
Event that I would like to do at the Olympic Games: Javelin 
Pets: Ian has an 11 year old black female Labrador named Tina 
What talent would you like to have: What else do I need? 

Family News: 

• Michael Wood will be attending the Australian Surfing Championships on the Gold Coast at the end of March as the physiotherapist with the North Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club and his partner Sonja will be competing in the Women's Beach Relay, Women's Beach Sprint and probably the Women's Beach Flags. The competition is on Kurrawa Beach and is televised on Channel 9 
• Terry and Mandy Lyell are expecting their first child early August - Congratulations to them both 
• Paul White: for those that don't know Paul coaches a number of athletes. In the year 2000 season he had 2 runners in his stable and one Clint Youlden ran second in the Stawell Gift , he lost by 6 hundreds of a second. This year after having success last year he is now coaching 7 runners and some results his runners have had this year is as follows 
• John Cara won the Ballarat 120m Gift , 2nd only in prize money in Victoria after the Stawell Gift ( $9000. 00 to the winner) he also won the 70m at the same meeting, was 3rd in the Bright Gift and ran in the final of the Rye Gift. 
• Adrian Campagna : 2nd in the Wangaratta Gift and 3rd in the 70m at Rye. 
• Craig Foley: 3rd in the 70m at Bright 
• The season is not yet finished so perhaps more good results will eventuate. 
• Allison Wood and Reggie are still in New York but are considering returning to work and live in California 
• Pam & I will be driving up to the Queensland late March staying at a few towns on the way up and then spending a week on the Gold Coast and returning approximately April 10th 
• Alicia Lyell (Jim & Kaye's daughter) has began her first year course of nursing in Warrnambool on the Deakin Campus so she will have to adjust to looking after herself, its a long way from home. 
• Rob Wood has a web site relating mainly to fitness for anyone that way inclined, the address is www.topendsports.com/testing/
• Sharon Prawdiuk (Turner) recently had a quick 10 day trip to Europe, firstly to Holland to spend time with her cousin Vicky and family, the time was spent mainly with the family participating in their daily life, socialising ,meeting their friends, showing her the places that were important to them as they grew up but she did manage to visit Anne Franks House. From there she flew to London and spent time with Renae Turner who made sure she was busy by taking her to the spots Renae frequents, shops such as Liberty and Harrods, markets, Indian food outlets, Jazz shops etc. Lastly there was a stop over of a day in Singapore which gave her time to do some shopping before returning to her young family. 

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