This Sunday is June/July Ladies Only movie club, fundraising for the
Stratton ABC Children’s Home http://www.thestrattonabcfoundation.com/

I really look forward to seeing you all.  Please bring a friend if you can
(RSVP essential).  Please note this is one of two months this year where we
have changed the venue from Nerang to Surfers Paradise.  The cost is reduced
but cake and coffee is not included.

Details:

Movie: Little White Lies (French subtitles)  (see below for synopsis)
Sunday: 3rd July
Time: 12.30pm for lunch/coffee at the Art Gallery Cafe and a 1.40pm movie
(152 min movie)
Cost: $20 (includes movie ticket and party bag) if you have any kind of
discount card it will be $2 cheaper
Where: The Arts Centre, 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise
RSVP: Saturday 2nd July

Movie Synopsis

****4½ stars!.. Margaret ****2 stars!.. David [ABC Movie Show]
http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s3219942.htm

Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their
annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and
friendship are sorely tested. they are finally forced to own up to the
little white lies they have been telling each other.

Every year, Max, a successful restaurant owner, and Véro, his eco-friendly
wife invite a merry group of friends to their beautiful beach house to
celebrate Antoine’s birthday and kick-start the vacation. But, this year,
before they all leave Paris, their buddy Ludo is hurt in a serious accident,
which sets off a dramatic chain of reactions and emotional responses. The
eagerly anticipated vacation leads each of the protagonists to raise the
little veils that for years they have draped over what bothers and upsets
them. Pretenses become increasingly hard to keep up. Until the moment when
the truth finally catches up with them all…

This week has seen us busy with our welcome visitors from Australia, Heather, Luca and Chloe from the Faa Gamma Fund raising Team.

Heather arrived last Thursday, along with a couple of bags of clothes collected in Australia, and was very keen to get on with anything to help us progress with prepping the home. Amongst other things she helped with giving the walls a good scrub in the kitchen/eating area.

She also got her design head on and went to work producing a model of how our playground may end up. This was very useful and inspirational and we decided to immediately go ahead with the ‘pencil’ fence.

After a ride around looking for appropriate looking fence post material, we settled on bamboo, which, at 20 baht for an approximately 6metre length, seemed the most cost effective.

To be sure, we first purchased just one length, cut into the sizes we wanted and with points chopped for driving into the ground. Back at Stratton House we drove the four lengths in to check that it was what we wanted. Agreeing tha this should work fine we went ahead and ordered 70 lengths, (paid for by Heather)which should be enough to complete the job.

It turns out that the supplier we ordered from is just one old guy on his own most of the time and not only could he not cut that many to size for us but he could only supply us with 40 lengths for now as the rest is still in the forest waiting to be cut. Still, this was more than enough to go on with.

Heathers partner Luca, and his daughter Chloe arrived on Monday, the same day as the Bamboo and we soon had a good bit of team work going.

For the next few days, Heather and co would go off doing ‘holiday stuff’ in the day, when it was too hot to work, and then return to pitch in with Boon and myself, preparing the fence posts.

The first session involved cutting to size, sanding, and chopping the driving points. Boon and Luca took turns with the cutting and chopping whilst the girls sanded like crazy.

All these posts then needed priming and then glossing in a variety of colours and everyone pitched in with this.

The visit was over before we knew it and its a shame we hadn’t got as far as putting any of the fence up before Faa and her team left. But it was an extremely useful few days help and encouragement and we hope to be driving the first of the fence posts in tonight when the sun eases off.

Once again we would like to thanks Heather, Luca and Chloe for their help and further donations of clothes, bedsheets and games for the kids.

For all the photos from the visit please visit our photobucket album here.

‘Gamma’ is the Thai pronounciation of what we refer to as Karma.

Take your chance to make some good Karma for yourself and the children.

Just get some like minded friends together , give your team a name, (the base team is ‘Gamma Stratton’), and come up with ideas for fundraising.

We will give each team their very own page on the website where they can show their efforts, add links to their own sites, and basically be a real part of this project. And each team will be given a Buddha image of their own to inspire them in their work.

If you wish to join us with your own team we simply ask for a commitment to at least one fundraising event per year.

Once you have made your team just use our email contact,(thestrattonabcfoundation@gmail.com), to send us details of team members,(preferably with photos), location, and your initial ideas about the Foundation and fund raising and we will post a team page. Then simply update us on any fundraising events so we can update your page.

Active Teams

Faa Gamma…….Australia