Hunger Lunch raises awareness and cash

International Women's Day

From Hunger lunch

Forty women celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8th with a “Hunger lunch” The main purpose of the day was to raise funds for the charity “Friends of Cambodia” Local businesses donated items and the venue, The Hotel Garbe, at Armação de Pera generously covered some of the costs. Combined proceeds from a raffle and the lunch raised a total of 470 euros, which will help provide education and healthcare for young children in Cambodia.

“A little goes a long way” said Geraldine Willcox MBE, who addressed the meeting. Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world and its children suffer severely for want of education and basic healthcare. A child can be fed, clothed, housed and educated for 12 euros a month. The audience was visibly moved as they listened to Geraldine describe conditions in the refugee camps she had visited across the poorest parts of Africa and Asia.

For more information see www.friendsofcambodia.net

Contribution - Theatre Dinner Review

Only a week has past since Pauline and I attended "the plays".

Below 4 what it is worth, is my record the night's entertainment, exclusive of the very good quality Indian meal, of course!


The following 2 plays presented to those of us lucky enough to get tickets to attend the latest of Hotel Garbe's "Meal and Thespian" night last week must surely agree with some if not all of my sentiments as set out below:

WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEA (BY WARREN GRAVES)

I innuendoes galore
N ever a dull moment
N ice and a little naughty
U sual boy/girl scenario x 2
E xcellent production
N ever a "slip-up"
D amn good play
O vation of audience at Final Curtain-"said it all"

Barbara & John Mountford acted their respective parts as though they were not married to one another. Praise indeed!

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THICKER THAN WATER (BY NICKY MORAN)

DRACULA sped in at the start of the play, which depicted the slick dialogue banter, brilliantly performed.
COUNT (Tom Hardy) really got his teeth into his lines!
COUNTESS (Nicky Moran) excelled with those inquisitive, flashy eyes and in true "wifely" fashion, not only attended to "hubbie's" thirst with Arterial or Vein Wine I recall,
but also managed to win all the arguments (well she would, wouldn't she, having written the script!?), inclusive of not allowing the Count to literally "lend a
hand" to their "dungeon-bound" man-servant, even though the chap was "stumped"-so to speak. If you get the drift!

With DRACULA being one of the star players, final assessment must read "BLOODY GOOD"!
Can I see a TV "soap" in the wings?


R A L T.

Coming up - Charity Grand Buffet Dinner and Dance