Eumundi Voice - Issue 64, 16 March 2023

david berns REAL ESTATE

Pam’s chilli jam

Ingredients:

• 1 head garlic cloves peeled (or use 1 tsp or 2 tsp from jar)

• 6-8 long chillies

• 3 thumb sized pieces ginger (peeled chopped)

• 2 double kaffir lime leaves

• 2 ½ cups caster sugar

• ½ cup water

• Zest of 2 limes

• ½ cup rice vinegar

• 2 tbsp fish sauce

• 1 tsp soy sauce

Method:

Purée garlic, chillies, ginger and kaffir lime leaves into a coarse paste.

Place in a saucepan the caster sugar, water, lime zest, rice vinegar, chilli paste, fish sauce and soy sauce.

Stir over medium heat until the sugar dissolves, then boil for 10 minutes until reduced by half. Pour or spoon into jars, cool and store in the fridge.

Thriving at school and in life

A child’s early years are clearly mapped out with milestones carefully documented but as they get older these milestones change, become less defined and crucial points in time don’t always receive the recognition they deserve.

More than 100 Good Shepherd Lutheran Yr9 students and their families recently attended a Calling and Departure ceremony. The ‘Calling’ encourages students to show gratitude for their childhood and calls them on their journey to young adulthood while the ‘Departure’ involves parents, carers and teachers joining students to learn, reflect and look forward.

Good Shepherd Principal, Anthony Dyer explains, “The two-year Rite Journey commences in Yr9 and honours the transition from a young person to young adult. It is a collective partnership between student, parent, Rite Journey teachers and the broader college community and aims to encourage students to strive to be thriving citizens and ready for their journey through life”. Students shared prepared letters of gratitude and attributes of childhood they wish to leave behind as they transition into young adults. In

return parents shared memories and keepsakes from their young person’s childhood.

Students were asked to step into adulthood and join their Rite Journey teachers at the water’s edge for the final phase of the ceremony. “The time and location of the ceremony was very intentional. Families and teachers gathered at 6.30am at the mouth of the Noosa River as the start of a new day symbolises a turning point. This location, where the river and ocean meet, perfectly depicts the analogy of our young people growing and developing into young adults,” said program coordinator, Nicole Drew.

St Teresa’s Catholic College open day

St Teresa’s Catholic College at 45 Eagle Dr, Noosaville is hosting an open day from 2-4pm on Sunday 19 March for prospective students and parents to meet and chat with staff and students about what the school has to offer. Take a tour of the college to discover the specialised teaching and learning spaces and range of academic and learning enrichment programs. Visit: stteresa. qld.edu.au/enrolments and click on college tours to register.

N’ Rollin’ International Women’s Day free community breakfast. The food was plentiful and delicious, the laughter loud and infectious and conversation enjoyable and inspiring.

Clean up Australia day Eumundi

Looking at the Eumundi township it appears to be very clean however on Sunday 5 March six Rotarians made an early start to clean up. Working around the train station, surrounding tunnels, market area and a few residential streets the volunteers were very surprised to collect six large bags of rubbish including broken glass, bottles, cans, various items from a recent road sign car crash and even an out-of-date passport.

Clean up Australia provides all the signing-on requirements, gloves and relevant collection bags. What a great Australian initiative!

Eumundi Chamber networking

Chamber members met on 24 February at Eumundi Coffee Roasters for the first networking event of 2023. Members were updated on progress of chamber initiatives and community projects and listened to concerns raised by Dr Sue Campin and David Campin regarding the Eumundi placemaking project. Cr David Law was in attendance to listen and discuss local issues.

International Women’s Day CWA style

Music blared from the Eumundi CWA hall on Tuesday 7 March as some 30 ladies, a female canine and one brave man celebrated a Rock

Why is English so difficult?

People often ask, “Why is English so difficult?”

English as a distinct language has only existed for around 1,500 years, using barely 50,000 words. In comparison the Revised Oxford English Dictionary (OED) lists more than two million words with 200,000 in common usage. German lists 184,000 and French 100,000.

Only English’s versatility offers subtle differences. For example “I speak”, “I am speaking”, “I do speak”. Spaniards use the same word for “president” and “chairman”, the French word for “wife” is the same as for “woman” and Russians have no words for “efficiency”, “challenge”, “to take care” or “engagement ring”.

Only English needs Roget’s Thesaurus because of the multiple meanings for one word. The OED takes five pages and 15,000 words to explain the meaning of “what”. We use colourful cliches and pithy sayings which today may sound illogical but we use them nevertheless, including “overwhelmed” (what is “whelmed”?), “short shrift” and “fell swoop”. We constantly add new words and jargon from all walks of life. So where did it all start?

Most European languages are Indo-European in origin. Sanskrit words like “bhrata” evolved into “brother”, German “bruder”, even Gaelic “bhrathair”. Other Sanskrit links appear in Greek, Latin, Gothic and Celtic. Spreading across the Northern Hemisphere tribes added new words which eventually became separate languages. English developed from invaders, colonists and commerce with 350 language origins. Celtic/ Gaelic survived in Wales, Ireland and parts of Scotland but no longer Cornwall. The Romans left the language of monks and education. Vikings left wonderful place names and northern dialect words.

Today barely 25% of common words reflect Anglo-Saxon origins. The Norman invaders of 1066 made French the major language for centuries, eating pork, beef and mutton. To the peasant Saxons they remained pig, cow and sheep. Gradually the two languages became one of choice.

World exploration, exploitation and colonisation added more words. Convict slang, used to confuse guards, became daily 'Australian'. Over the years meanings and usage changed and suffixes and prefixes were added to our vocabularies. Word choice totally affects meaning: “We had Grandma for tea,” and “It's the dog’s mess that I find hard to swallow”.

English is difficult because of its beauty, versatility and variety – it is full of colour and choices. As Bill Bryson said in his book on English language, The Mother Tongue, “More than 300 million people around the world speak English and the rest try to”.

Eileen Walder

I take it you already know?

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough.

Others may stumble but not you

On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.

Well done! And now you wish perhaps

To learn of less familiar traps.

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard but sounds like bird.

And dead, it’s said like bed not bead –

For goodness sake don’t call it ‘deed’!

Watch out for meat and great and threat

They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother

Nor both in bother, broth or brother.

And here is not a match for there

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.

And then there’s doze and rose and lose

Just look them up – and goose and choose.

And cork and work and card and ward

And font and front and word and sword.

And do and go and thwart and cart –

Come, I’ve hardly made a start!

A dreadful language? Man alive!

I learned to speak it when I was five!

And yet to write it, the more I sigh

I’ll not learn how ‘til the day I die.

Anonymous – unless you know better

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BACK!

MARCH 2023

17 Babushka in “Happily Ever After”, Pomona, �� themajestictheatre.com.au

18 Seed Saving, Nambour Library, �� library.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

18 Eighties Recall, Joe’s Waterhole, �� fb.me/e/2PKx73wlE

18 Sunshine Coast Chilli Festival, Palmview, �� fb.me/e/3ck9gH9Sq

19 Cruize In (cars and coffee), Cooroy, �� fb.me/e/2Wtpa6OBY

23-26 Noosa Ultra-Trail, Noosa hinterland, �� noosaultratrail.com.au

24 Hard Quiz Live - Hosted by Tom Gleeson, The J, Noosa, �� thej.com.au

24-26 Coolum Wedge Bodysurfing Festival, Coolum, �� coolumwedge.com

25 Yandina Five “O” trail runs, Starting point Terella Brewing, �� terellabrewing.com.au

25 Offbeat Music Festival, Eumundi, �� imperialhoteleumundi.com.au

25 Plant Sale, Noosa Botanic Gardens, �� noosabotanicgardensfriends.com/events-calendar

26 Park Sounds, Dick Caplick Park, Eumundi, �� imperialhoteleumundi.com.au

Until26 Earthly Nuances, Cooroy, �� butterfactoryartscentre.com.au

26 80’s Sunday Session, Sunshine Beach Surf Club, �� fb.me/e/zsyDxfgI

26 Flash Mob Dance Day Retreat, Eumundi, �� fb.me/e/2l7Pzz89n 26

Noosa Junction Dog Day Out, Noosa Junction, �� fb.me/e/UYBUDAuT 30

Eumundi Voice, Issue 65 30 Tim Rogers and The Twin Set, Eumundi, �� imperialhoteleumundi.com.au

30 Flickerfest 2023, The J, Noosa, �� thej.com.au

31-2 Nambour Outdoor Expo, Nambour, �� nambourexpo.com.au

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