Tickets On Sale Monday......

Ok, Ok, the day is finally here - thanks to Becks for pointing out that we didn't say on the site where tickets were available from.....1st September is when they go on sale.......

Okay the main ticket outlet is Putaruru Information Centre, PO Box 155, Putaruru. Phone: 07 883 7284 email: putaruruinfo@xtra.co.nz - Anne Berben is in charge there.

They have cash, eftpos & cheque facilities, and if you are posting a cheque for tickets, please either send a stamped adressed envelope or add 50 cents to your cheque for postage.

If you are over in Hamilton, you can also buy your tickets from the Hockin Building over by the Breast Care Centre, and just a hop and a step from the carpark..
Facilities are cash or cheque thank you.

Sorry, we don't have credit card facilities as we'd loose 4% in fees.....

Cheques made payable to Putaruru Think Pink please..

And thank you all for your support ;o)

Raffle Prize From The China Plate

GRASSROOTS......

Wow - once again we have yet another exceptional entry today.....The Grassroots Trust has given the WBCT a grant that is to be used on Think Pink - wow - it will cover the canapes and a band and some of our cheffing services so a huge thank you to them. Ambreed have upped their sponsorship, and we were amazed as it happened right in the middle of the meeting, which blew us away - thank you Ambreed. On the raffle front, La More Sweets confirmed that their donation was worth well over $300, and yesterday Hayley Heke at the China Plate in Putaruru sent us her raffle pack for the Pink Paradise and it is a gorgeous set of jewellery holders and jewellery in true vintage style valued at $300 - keep watching this space for the next slide show on Hayley's donation..A BIG THANK YOU THERE for the China Plate too...Keep watching this space, as we pile on the updates over the next few weeks - there's a few web pages afoot too......

Super Sydney, Noble Nolan & Leanient Leon!

So where have we been yet again??? Well in the midst of calving, I had a birthday - the one before the big 40 - and yes that one is planned already! Then last Wednesday, I had surgery number 13 in 4 years - the number didn't impress me much - so Monday for the first time ever, I tried to get out of it saying I was too busy with Pink, but really I was getting all superstitious and crapping myself - I was not impressed about the situation at all HOWEVER, it gave me some down time and time to say how impressed we are here about the 3 Amigos above........Nolan & Leon are twins and if you didn't know them too well, you would certainly get them mixed up, we can only imagine what amount of trouble they got up to when they were younger...Leon with his partner Odette, own Odeon Computers in Putaruru where Nolan works, and Leon spares us Nolan's time, whilst Nolan spares us his patience - who else would put up with emails with the subject line - Here's your bloody information now bugger off and leave us alone!(and that's a good one) They are devoting ALL of their time and expertise for free and we are totally graciously humbled by what they do, and yes they know that we are having a laugh...THANK YOU ODEON COMPUTERS.......

Then there is Sydney. Sydney came to us via the Fantabulous Jenni Scarlet at the Trust. During the day, Sydney is IT personnel at the hospital - a job hard enough in itself - then in his spare time (YEAH RIGHT) he has 4U Computers in Hamilton - then between each breath that he takes, he is donating that time to host our website - check it out at www.putaruruthinkpink.co.nz - yet another work horse on our team. THANK YOU TOO SYDNEY, we're not sure if you guys really know the extent of which our success relies on you, but we thank you once again for the donation of your time and expertise in your already busy lives to showcase our event.

We have a whopper of a Think Pink meeting taking place on Monday, at this rate, we'll be holding court on my bed - I was going to say that growing up in the UK, Paula Yates used to have this section on the breakfast show called On The Bed With Paula - maybe we could call it on the bed with Annie, but as Natalie pointed out, she died of a drug overdose, so maybe we need to not call it anything!! Thanks Nat......So tonight we give thanks for the generosity of our Pink sponsors & advisors, wireless internet, cordless phones, laptop computers, a comfortable bed and my last morphine tablet.....

Until Monday

Mammogramms...Put your big girls panties on!

It's been a funny week of sorts - last week saw us in Central TV with Think Pink, Nat was the first to see it and told us not to watch it as we looked pasty faced, AND we looked like we'd been sprized into the sofa and needed a can opener to get us out - as you can see, we are our own critics...we've never laughed so much ever! Annes new worker starts on the farm on Monday so that will free her up a little, and I have a wee surgery next week, so that will give me chance to make phone calls next week!! Yesterday saw me have my first mammogram and without a word of a lie I was crapping myself to put it politely. On Monday however we went to see Annette - the star of our movie, and she was having an awful day as she was in alot of pain as her tumors were pressing on her spine, to say it was a downer day after that would be an understatement. Nats and I left feeling ssssooooo helpless. Yesterday prior to the mammogram, I was thinking of how everyone told me how painful it would be - yes, even those who had never had one - it was the quietest I'd ever been EVER EVER EVER in the whole world honest!! As I was sat in the changing rooms at the new fancy Hamilton Imaging Centre, I began to think of Annette and her daily struggle and thought, just put your big girl panites on and deal with it. So with the sense of humour that the 3 of us have, I began to think of the funny things we've experienced over think pink - then the radiolodist went to get a gown to cover me up and I had to giggle because she was sooooo concerned to cover me up, yet second later, I was flashing her an eyeful!
Anyway, for those of you putting it off - IT DID NOT HURT!! I kept thinking any minute now, any minute now, any minute now - and then I thought, bloody hell, the scaremongerers amongst us could actually put someone off having a mammogram when it depends on your pain threshold how the rest of your life "COULD" pan out. It really wasn't painful at all.

You know, when I was expecting my first baby, the midwife in the UK asked me about my birth plan and I said I was going to give birth, it was going to bloody hurt then I would worry about my child for the rest of it's life, she told me it was the most realistic one she had ever heard.....

So for those of you putting off going for a mammogram, it may hurt a little, but it will sure take away that worry, and if you saw Annette writhing in agony on Monday morning like we did, squishy boobs for a few seconds is really the least of our worries.....So what are you waiting for????? I think a trip to La More is coming on as a bravery award........

La More Sweets - Tirau...

I di say yesterday that I would fill you in on the La More Sweets from Tirau, but first I've just had an email from Anne White asking if I had put the photo of the ginger calf with two blondes up on purpose..I had to laugh as I hadn't, but Anne is the redhead and Nat & I are blondes...even if mine is covering the grey!! Anyway, La More today gave us this fantastic prize to go into the Pink Paradise raffle. Inside it is:
A vintage French style plate.
A pink English roses jug.
Coconut Ice
Bassetts baby Jelly Babies
Love Hearts
Frys Turkish Delight
Galaxy Chocolate Bars - multiple bars
Fruit Polos
Thorntons Toffee
Nougat
Bon-bons
Frys Peppermint Cream
Blackberries and raspberries
Sour Apples
Fruit pastilles
and more.......
Lots of these are English imports, and cost an arm and a leg - I know for sure becuase being a POM means that these are the things that I can't give up....If you want to have that Olde World charm of an amazing sweet shop, just call in. They are No 3 Main Rd, Tirau. It is one of the new shops up by the Loose Goose in Tirau, I know that when I walked in for the first time, I was transported back to the sweet shop next door to my primary school in the UK...And yes, they have soooo many KIWI ones too - and for ex pat POMS, they have Hula Hoops, but I can't fit them on my fingers anymore to eat them - for the non POMS, they are circular potato chips, and as kids, we would put one on each finger tip and crunch them off as we walked home from school....Those were the days!!

We're still here......

Well that's the end of another week that was! The AB's have just had a much needed awesome convincing win, and the wind is howling. 2 of us here are in the thick of calving - neither of us have the breed of calves above, but how cute do they look.....Anne has lost their worker due to illness, her kids have been sick & in and out of the Docs this week - with 6 kids, lergies pass through pretty quickly, although 1 coming back sick from World Youth Day in Sydney didn,t help! Natalie doesn't want to rewind this week and start again, she just want's to forget it altogether - we joke that she usually does (and forgets which car she's just been in which she's done twice in one day yet again). Monday & Tuesday this week saw me turning in 10 hour work days because of meetings, Nat & I were out of our houses for 14 hours each on Tuesday (although after our Business after 5 on Tuesday, we shot down to Tokoroa to see SATC with 6 other girlies which was a hoot), Wednesday we all went to the Waikato Times Offices to talk PINK, then all back to work, Thursday all of to Matamata to film PINK for TV Central which will show on Monday and Tuesday next week on Everyday with Anne Maree who's due to have her baby any minute - BIG THANK YOU TO REXINE....Friday morning I was awake at 4am, and not even reading the last Putaruru Concept Plan for work could tire my eyes, a meeting with Waikato Uni for work in the afternoon tied up the week nicely.

Our meeting for Pink this week as you can tell was in between driving to Hamilton and Matamata, and yet we have achieved heaps in the gaps in between. Thank you's go to McCabes Toyworld and Kiwibank in Putaruru, for 100 free envelopes for our next round of sponsorship asks, Annah Stretton and Tony Hope once again for 80m pink tulle, the ePosters, and for being there. JENNI SCARLET for everything that she does, this woman works tirelessly for the trust, patients with breast cancer, then has to help us guys out too, so thank you Jenni. Hopkins Joinery - especially Ron and Hillary who have no idea how much we value everything that they are doing - all will be apparent later. Go Bus for helping out Anne, everyone submitting photos for our movie, Nolan from Odeon Computers for our Amazing website, and Sydney Mounsey at 4U Computers for the hosting, Grassroots Charitable Trust for your support, and tomorrow, another raffle prize from La More Sweets in Tirau but more on that when it's been collected. Righty, I'm off to bed!