I know.. very 'childlike' to still like getting birthday cards at her advanced age but that's what she likes, so suck it up and remember the date for NEXT year!
Of, course, she's not the only girl to be born on this day.. she has a 'twin' called Marlowe. She is Sienna Miller's daughter and Marlowe is three today! So you can sing, yes you can as you ALL know the words..
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday ... & Marlowe, happy birthday to the two of you.. heehee. No not a lot of sanity around here today folks! Her brain is a'buzzin and she's after BIG loads of dosh aka money honey!
A lot of Rotarians join Rotary for various reasons: Friendship / Contacts / etc, etc. She joined Rotary and her club for two VERY specific reasons.
The first is because of their outstanding project, with the Gates Foundation, to eradicate this crippling disease. The second reason was because of Mary Madden's dream to create, build and maintain the Streatham Dementia Support Group. This determined that she wanted to join the Rotary Club of Streatham
Now you may not know much about what the Gates Foundation and Rotary do with regard to readicating Polio, so I suggest you get your fingers to tap Gates Foundation and Rotary into a search engine and see what comes up. What will come up are the STAGGERING facts of how much money and work that has gone towards this project and the amazing results that have been achieved.
So going forward.. as I said, each Rotarian joins for different reasons and some of them have a dream. Mary's was the Dementia Group, about which she has written. This is up and running as is the Polio project.
But yesterday, like a flash of lightening, HER dream came to her. She was talking to Vinnay, they were talking about fundraising and other stuff. She asked him where he came from in India, he said Mumbai (Bombay), she replied that her mother's family had lived in Madras.
Then someone interrupted them and said to her, I need you to join us at the Greenwich Club, she roared with laughter and replied.. "NO CHANCE! It takes me an hour to get here to Streatham, I'm not going to Greenwich. Go away or I'll tell Janice - the President - that you are trying to poach me!" Vinnay and she laughed and then Vinnay said "But we ARE going to take you to India.."
Well, you can just imagine her face.. she said "WHAT?" and he explained why.. she said "Sadly Vinnay, I'm 'grounded', I cannot fly and NO medical insurance company will insure me because of my well documented medical condition but tell me what you're talking about" and so he did..
And the lightening flashed! Her DREAM! The project already exists, albeit in a tinytiny format.
Forty years ago when she lived on the lovely Costa del Sol, she ran around with a mad bunch of tennis players.. SERIOUS tennis players like Lew and Jenny Hoad, Abe Segal, Ray Moore and Mike Davis etc, etc. Their favourite expression to try something new was "give it a whack!"
It is much too soon to tell you about it as she has a humungous amount of data to obtain about this project, she didn't cut her teeth on The Savoy Hotel and Bovis Construction Group for nothing folks. She LOVES a good project! Grrr.. Something reallyreally 'meaty' to get your teeth into!
There is money to be raised, material of all manner of descriptions to be sourced and donated.
It is now her dream, she and Vinnay are meeting an hour earlier at the Rotary Club HQ on Monday and will discuss what has been done so far. She worked until late last night, pulling facts and figures together, of ideas, of sponsors whom she knows to be of a philanthropic disposition ~ most important, in fact, vital!
And so there you have it folks.. and now I am going to say to you all.. and I don't care if you're as old as she is.. find yourselves a dream and GIVE IT A WHACK!
GeeGee Parrot.
July 7th, 2015.
PostScript: Her birthday!
Of, course, she's not the only girl to be born on this day.. she has a 'twin' called Marlowe. She is Sienna Miller's daughter and Marlowe is three today! So you can sing, yes you can as you ALL know the words..
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday ... & Marlowe, happy birthday to the two of you.. heehee. No not a lot of sanity around here today folks! Her brain is a'buzzin and she's after BIG loads of dosh aka money honey!
A lot of Rotarians join Rotary for various reasons: Friendship / Contacts / etc, etc. She joined Rotary and her club for two VERY specific reasons.
The first is because of their outstanding project, with the Gates Foundation, to eradicate this crippling disease. The second reason was because of Mary Madden's dream to create, build and maintain the Streatham Dementia Support Group. This determined that she wanted to join the Rotary Club of Streatham
Now you may not know much about what the Gates Foundation and Rotary do with regard to readicating Polio, so I suggest you get your fingers to tap Gates Foundation and Rotary into a search engine and see what comes up. What will come up are the STAGGERING facts of how much money and work that has gone towards this project and the amazing results that have been achieved.
So going forward.. as I said, each Rotarian joins for different reasons and some of them have a dream. Mary's was the Dementia Group, about which she has written. This is up and running as is the Polio project.
But yesterday, like a flash of lightening, HER dream came to her. She was talking to Vinnay, they were talking about fundraising and other stuff. She asked him where he came from in India, he said Mumbai (Bombay), she replied that her mother's family had lived in Madras.
Then someone interrupted them and said to her, I need you to join us at the Greenwich Club, she roared with laughter and replied.. "NO CHANCE! It takes me an hour to get here to Streatham, I'm not going to Greenwich. Go away or I'll tell Janice - the President - that you are trying to poach me!" Vinnay and she laughed and then Vinnay said "But we ARE going to take you to India.."
Well, you can just imagine her face.. she said "WHAT?" and he explained why.. she said "Sadly Vinnay, I'm 'grounded', I cannot fly and NO medical insurance company will insure me because of my well documented medical condition but tell me what you're talking about" and so he did..
And the lightening flashed! Her DREAM! The project already exists, albeit in a tinytiny format.
Forty years ago when she lived on the lovely Costa del Sol, she ran around with a mad bunch of tennis players.. SERIOUS tennis players like Lew and Jenny Hoad, Abe Segal, Ray Moore and Mike Davis etc, etc. Their favourite expression to try something new was "give it a whack!"
It is much too soon to tell you about it as she has a humungous amount of data to obtain about this project, she didn't cut her teeth on The Savoy Hotel and Bovis Construction Group for nothing folks. She LOVES a good project! Grrr.. Something reallyreally 'meaty' to get your teeth into!
There is money to be raised, material of all manner of descriptions to be sourced and donated.
It is now her dream, she and Vinnay are meeting an hour earlier at the Rotary Club HQ on Monday and will discuss what has been done so far. She worked until late last night, pulling facts and figures together, of ideas, of sponsors whom she knows to be of a philanthropic disposition ~ most important, in fact, vital!
And so there you have it folks.. and now I am going to say to you all.. and I don't care if you're as old as she is.. find yourselves a dream and GIVE IT A WHACK!
GeeGee Parrot.
July 7th, 2015.
PostScript: Her birthday!
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