Shake, Rattle 'n' Roll - Friday 22nd June, 2007

Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Fire! Join us and our good friend Jive Bunny for a great night of good old Rock ‘n’ Roll. Ah Huh! Burgers, Fries, Shakes and Hot Fudge Sundaes are on the menu along with Live Entertainment and Rock ‘n’ Roll Demonstrations! Get your dancing shoes on, grab a partner and come on lets do the twist! $30 per person Includes Entry, Entertainment & Dinner! Drinks @ Bar Prices All Tickets Must Be Pre-Purchased Please Contact Joanne on 0438 042 926 For Further Information or To Book Your Tickets!

Lady Ella de Comp

A Quick Thank You To All Of Those Who Attending "A Ghastly Evening With Lady de Comp" Last Night. We Hope You All Had A Wonderful Evening!

Due To The Success Of Last Nights Theatrical Event And The Many Enquiries We Have Had Today Alone, We Will Be Setting A Date For Another "Ghastly Evening With Lady de Comp".

Details Will Be Posted Shortly!

Thank You All For Your Ongoing Support!

Kind Regards

Joanne and Tye!

To Marry Your Best Friend

Saturday the 28th saw Kellie and Allan get married inside the Cafe at 4pm (or a little after when the Bride decided to show!). The sun shone through the front doors and the Ceremony matched the couple perfectly.

We would like to wish Kellie & Allan all the very best for their future and we look forward to seeing them when the come back from their Honeymoon and in for Breakfast (how do I know they are coming - Kellie called me just after midnight to thank us for everything and tell me they would be in for Breakfast!).

I personally would like to wish them all my love and I hope their first dance is one that lives on in them forever.

Lady de Comp - PRESS RELEASE

Lady Ella De Comp, born of noble lineage, December 2nd 1836, Melbourne Victoria. Many will tell you, Lady de Comp, or Ella to her friends, possessed all of the qualities it desirable to young ladies of the time. She was sweet, demure, well educated, polite and excellent at lace work and embroidery. Popular on the social front, she was immediately well loved by those fortunate enough to make her acquaintance. She was also ill fated to fall helplessly in love with a dashing young man well below her social station and meet a tragic end… Lady Ella De Comp, was also entirely fictitious, and is simply the work of the combined imaginative forces of Tye Neich and Joanne Santos, the new managers of Point Cook Homestead Café. “An Evening with Lady De Comp” will be held on Saturday May 26th and is a chilling theatrical event, not to be missed and promises to be an evening filled with thrills, tall tales and great fun. Join Lady De Comp, the Homestead’s very own Un dead Bride as she walks you on a lantern lit tour of the Homestead, Stables and surrounding grounds and tells you her tale of undying love, gone terribly wrong…. Beginning at 8pm, followed by a hearty supper of your choice of Chunky Minestrone with Damper or Rich Lamb Casserole with creamy mashed potatoes, this event is a guaranteed great night out. Tickets are priced at $30.00 all-inclusive and very limited. They are selling out extremely fast, so be sure to book now by calling Joanne on 0438042926, or Tye on 0420371787.

Books, Glorious Books...

Joanne and I are always looking for new ways to make the Cafe feel more like home. We both believe, very strongly, that a good Cafe should not only serve great food and great coffee, all with a friendly smile, but it should feel like home. You should always feel welcome and comfortable enough to stay all day...

We are both very excited about our latest idea to help make this happen. As you know Winter is nearly here, and the bite of the Winter to come can be felt even on these early Autumn evenings. In an effort to encourage our regular customers to spend their weekends lazing and relaxing by the fire, and to compliment the homey feel we hope to convey with or new Winter menu, we have decided to put in some very comfy couches, and a Bookshelf!

Today, I spent a glorious few hours in a secondhand bookstore, selecting the first volumes to grace the shelves of our fledgling library. Not only will you be able to sit in a cozy corner and wile the day away with a great read, but you can even take it home! As long as you promise to bring it back...

For those of you who don't know, I used to work at Collins Booksellers and have loved books my entire life. Unsure of what to read first? Want to branch out into a new genre or Author, I can help! Please feel free to ask me any questions you might have!

The Cafe Library will be open very soon, right after our last big function has been completed.

We hope you are looking forward to it as much as we are!

For the Twitchers....

Isn't Mother Nature truly amazing?I mean when this lady comes up with a design she gets it 150% right. Some of you might not know that the Homestead Grounds are a Bird Sanctuary. We are fortunate enough to see lots of bird activity and it can sometimes seem a little odd... On Saturday, Emma, came over to clean the Homestead Grounds Toilets. She called me out to look at something she had found. I have to tell you my heart sank, you never really expect to find anything good in these toilets....(We are desperately trying to get them replaced) I was, however, delighted with her discovery. In the fuse box which hangs on the wall of the ladies toilets, is a little hole in the door, about the size of a 50 cent coin. When she opened the door to the fuse box, I was staggered to see the most intricate and complex nest I have ever had the good fortune to see. We have alot of Starlings around the Homestead and it is nesting season. This nest was beautiful in its design. Each and every piece of straw and leaf and feather had been woven around and around in a clockwise direction. It was so complex and so wonderful to admire. It amazed me that this little bird had spent hours and possibly days weaving this nest in such a small space, with such a small entry point. We were both very upset that it had to be removed, but it was in a very old fuse box and a HUGE fire hazard. Still, it was lovely to be reminded, that we humans aren't as clever as we like to think we are and to spend the rest of the day marvelling at the Perfection that is Mother Nature.

Tye's Useless Information

Did you know…. *Most of the troops that were used against the Anzacs in the first days at Gallipoli, were Arabs.

*On the first day only one Australian 18 pounder artillery piece was landed.

*“Old Anzac”, the area of land held during the whole campaign is about 400 acres in size.

*At Kum Kale, the French had no steel pickets to string barbed wire. They used Turkish bodies instead.

*The minesweepers that were sent to clear the minefields in the Dardanelles were fishing trawlers, with civilian crews, who were averse to taking orders from the Royal Navy.