Millwater ROMEOs

THE BIG CLEAN

Sunday 6th March 2 - 4pm

The BIG Millwater clean-up day is on Sunday 6th March, from 2pm to 4pm. Please come along with your family and help us clean up our beautiful Millwater neighbourhood.

Paul Stringer of Envirowaste has kindly arranged for the donation of rubbish bags and skip – and he will be there on the 6th to award prizes for the best collectors.

Please see the Millwater Families’ Facebook page for more details.

This will be a fun day for all the family. Please bring your own gloves, hat and sun block – and wear sensible footwear.

Diana Lakin is our great organiser!

PONY RIDES

Bike-a-Thon/

Silent Auction

GALA

Saturday 12th March

Bouncy Castle

10am – 1pm

RAFFLES

Food & Drinks

2 Longmore Lane

Off Millwater Parkway

Games & Prizes water slide

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Millwater ROMEOs

For February, the Millwater ROMEOs (Retired Old Men Eating Out) decided that, rather than roaming the Near North as we have done recently, we would lunch locally and 12 of us headed to Mumbai – Mumbai Central that is, the excellent Indian grill and bistro located in the shopping centre on Millwater Parkway.

We were all keen to try the Dabbawala lunch special, which is presented in stacked tiffin tins and, at $15 a head, proved to be both generous and delicious. Typically, a dabbawala lunch consists of a starter, a main, rice, naan bread and a dessert. The group unanimously rated the meal 10 out of 10.

We were lucky enough to have the owner/operator of Mumbai Central, Rajesh Khubchandani, join us briefly to give us some background to Mumbai, its unique food and its festivals.

The dabbawala lunch delivery service started in Bombay, as it was then, in 1890 and has grown to the extent that between 175,000 and 200,000 lunches are now delivered throughout the city each day by up to 5000 dabbawalas (in English “lunch box delivery men”). Astonishingly, it is claimed that the dabbawalas make less than one mistake in every six to eight million deliveries, and all this in a manual system which does not rely on computerisation!

All in all it turned out to be another good outing for the ROMEOs and a different gastronomic experience, coupled with some great conversation.