Newsletter No. 7: March 2001
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.
Articles for this newsletter always required, let me know who has started School, University or work this year for the next issue or any other news.