September 07 Newsletter

What’s new a Beaumont?

Well, last month saw the arrival of the newest addition to the Beaumont family. The beautiful Madison Ruby Beau Paice was born on 4th August. Needless to say, Mum and Dad are over the moon, and so are we!

September at a Glance…

Janine shares the very best of what is going on in our wonderful city for September

Comedy

From Lebanon with Love – Part 2
Check out the follow up to the stunning, sold out season of From Lebanon with Love – Part 1 at the Enmore Theatre, Newtown from 7th – 16th September. The wedding is over but the family issues have just begun… (Suitable for families)

Music

Powderfinger/Silverchair take to the stage at Sydney’s ACER arena, tickets are still available for Sunday 9th September. If you can’t make it head to Wollongong for 23 or 24th October.

On a somewhat smaller stage check out Welsh Indie/Rock band Funeral for a Friend at the cosier Metro Theatre on Sunday September 16th

Alternatively go upmarket with Josh Groben on Sunday September 30th at Sydney’s Opera House

Musicals

Grease hits the stage of NSW Central Coast & Hunter from 14th – 23rd September or for something a bit quirkier try Menopause the Musical at Sydney’s Theatre Royal until September 30th. (It’s meant to be hilarious!)

Festivals

Breakout ’07 hits Sydney on September 15th and is strictly for underage rockers aged -18, no alcohol obviously

Willoughby takes to the town on September 1st & 30th for the annual Spring Festival. Join in the community fun with street fairs, cultural celebrations, visual arts, music, theatre, bush walks, bike rides and more… (Various locations around Willoughby)

What's for dinner?

Having trouble trying to decide what to make for dinner tonight? Well, each month we will feature a new recipe, tried and tested by our very own staff. This month it's...

Veal Scaloppine

Ingredients:

400g of mushrooms
5 shallots
500g of veal
1 glass of cream or low fat cream
1 glass of chicken stock
1/2 glass of white wine
100 g of butter
Salt and Pepper
Oregano
1 table spoon of plain flower

Method:

Fry the veal with the butter on each side and with a touch of oregano until brown and then remove the veal and put it aside.
Fry the shallots and the mushroom and then put it aside
To make the sauce put ½ glass of white wine, let it boil so the alcohol evaporates, let that boils for less than a minute, then add one tablespoon of flour then add the chicken stock and the cream. Let it boil for a few seconds
Now add the meat, let it cook for another minute
Just before it’s served, add the mushroom with the shallots
Serve with boiled rice

By Vivina Ventura

Miss Motivator………..

Sara Dawson shares her tips and tricks on staying focused and energised!

Most of us have those mornings when we wake up and just want to stay curled up under the covers for the day, (or another half hour at least!). When life is busy and we are burning the candle at both ends; juggling work, social, fitness, family and other commitments, it can be hard to stay on top of things and keep motivated both in our professional lives and in achieving our own personal goals.

Now, with spring around the corner and the long days of winter almost a distant memory, what better time to dust off the cobwebs, boost your motivation and give your career an extra push in the right direction.

Thousands of dollars are spent each year on workshops and seminars aimed at achieving greater motivation and direction in our lives. These are largely focused around frame of mind - how it affects our motivation and how we can control it.

Illira Margaritis, MD of VitaliseYou, an organisation that specialises in life and career direction has listed 7 ways to turbo-charge your motivation, which the team at Beaumont think are great. We have these motivating tips stuck up around the offices to get us going whenever we need a boost of enthusiasm – I have a quick read through of my copy every morning, and it really works!

Start each day by being grateful for the good things in your life and about yourself, and pass your gratitude on to others!
Reward yourself for all your achievements and thank others who have offered support or inspired you
Accept that life is a work in progress – forgive yourself for past mistakes, learn from them and move on
Manage your emotions – identify which ones are productive and which aren’t and try to fit your work around them to an extent. (I can never write a good advert or article when I am not feeling inspired, so I choose times when I am and allocate these tasks to those times)
Look after yourself – your body is your biggest asset so make sure you give it plenty of sleep, exercise, nutritious food and TLC. And, very importantly – make sure you laugh and smile – A LOT!
Clear out negative thoughts – don’t let them control you or restrict your potential. Try to be very aware of your thoughts and how they may be affecting your frame of mind without you necessarily realising
Celebrate your successes – start each day by taking stock of your achievements so far and celebrating them. And share your success with others because as the saying goes “Success breeds success.’

By Sara Dawson

Book review – Sarah Saywell

Kim Edward's first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter begins in 1964. A doctor husband delivers his wife’s twins, one of whom is born Down Syndrome. Faced with what he imagined would be a difficult and grief filled experience of raising a Down Syndrome child the doctor asks the nurse to take the baby to an institution and tells his wife that the baby died. The nurse begins to follow the doctors request however upon arriving at the institution she finds it to be a dreary and desolate place and decides to keep the baby herself.

The decisions of the doctor and the nurse and the effects they have on the lives of the people around them are at the core of the novel. It is a page turner, and often very sad but there are moments of joy and triumph watching the Down Syndrome twin grow up as a happy and fulfilled girl, however it is a book full of secrets and regret and I found myself wishing for the truth to be revealed. The novel reminds us that we are human and that we make mistakes. The doctor thought what he was doing would prevent grief but his decision only magnified it.

Totally Useless TREVIA

Our regular resident funny girl – Kathryn Young, is due to leave us in two weeks to explore the world, but luckily we have Trevor Robinson to provide us with a bit of light hearted “Trevia”

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The Romans invented the first popsicle.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
The words “facetious” and “abstemious” contain all the vowels in alphabetical order.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
Parker Brothers prints more money each year for its Monopoly games than the U.S. Government issues in real currency.

Quote of the Month

"You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over." - Paul H. Dunn

Joke of the month

A guy walks into a bar with a giraffe and they sit down on two stools at the front and the guy says to the barman " 2 beers please barman". The barman pours them 2 beers and the giraffe grabs his and drinks it down in one go and then the guy follows suit. The guy then says again "another 2 beers please barman" and the barman pours 2 more beers and once again the giraffe sculls his down and the guy does likewise. This goes on for a fair while with the giraffe and the guy sculling beer after beer after beer. After about 15 beers each, the guy can see the giraffe starting to wobble on his stool. The wobbling gets worse and worse and eventually the giraffe just passes out and falls backwards off the stool onto the floor. The guy looks at him and then gets up off his stool and starts walking out of the bar. The barman then yells at the guy as he is leaving "Hey you can't leave that lyin there" and the guy looks at the giraffe and then replies "that's not a lion that's a giraffe" and walks out