Claire on hols and freezers replaced by local muscle men!

Saturday 19^th February 2011

Claire left for Perth last Saturday. We hope she has a fantastic holiday and look forward to seeing here back at the café someday, hopefully.

Today was our first Saturday opening. How good to see Trish and Kim bang on the dot of 8.00am, the same time we used to see them on Sunday mornings. Thank you so much for your support guys! 

 Next customer through the door was Digger, dressed in work clothes but still making time to call in for breakfast clutching last Sundays newspaper for quiet entertainment.  Thanks also go to Ali, Levi, Jack and Megs, Brian and Joanie and all the other locals who took advantage of the Saturday morning opening (8am – 12mid day!).

Two of our freezers have broken down in recent weeks (the second one died on Tuesday). We needed help to move things around and I spied some excellent biceps on FOUR strapping young men (non residents) quietly having lunch inside the café.  We enlisted their help to lift the broken machines over the top of the glass display cabinet and out to the car. Later in the day we needed more help to bring fridges and freezers from home to the café.  This time Di enlisted the help of Ian and Chubbz, our TWO local heroes (photos to follow) who carried out double the work with half the manpower and a swig and a puff for sustenance along the way! Thank you so much for your help.  If we had any Melbourne, Victoria Bitter or Corona Beer on Island I'd buy you some to say thanks.  As the ship is still on Christmas Island where it has been waiting for weeks to unload and can't because of bad weather, and the last load of drinks for the club were dropped in the container, smashing many of the bottles and contaminating the rest of the stock, the chance of me being able to say thank you with a cold beer is pretty remote!

Local resident (friend of the stars and new owner of a Corvette Stingray – the ultimate American sports car!) returns to Island

I caught up with Graham Flynn in the cafe last week to ask him about his trip to America to collect his beloved sports car.  While he was in San Francisco he met up with his old friend Richard Hymes, George Lucas’s/Spielberg’s sound editor.  He ended up at George Lucas’s Ranch having been invited along with a number of Academy award winners for a viewing of the “Black Swan”. Wearing jeans and a jumper he felt he fitted in quite well.  It could have been a different story if he’d packed his faux leopard skin suit!