Dear Fellow Members

I hope that all of you have come through the schnee und eiss unshaved. It would not have been nice to start the year with a broken fimular oder treemar. Here in Abernein Mansions we were struck for three days without being able to come out at all. Fortunately Mrs Bluhmenkohl’s nephew, Curtis has a delicatessen und dry cleaning shop and brought for all us residents some left over Danish pastries und baigels that he would have otherwise thrown out. What a nice boy.

Of course the unclement weather also stopped us from coming to Belsize Square, so we are feeling very insulated from the community at the moment. It is not a good time for us olden ones. I for one am looking forward to the first glisters of schpring. This not the case with Mrs Klopstick who seems to srive in abworse conditions. At her time from life, she insisted on pushing cars up Finchley Road that were deep in the snow and only stopped when someone pointed out that she had shifted six parked cars und an RAC wan into the middle of the Hendon Way.

Although we have come into a new year with 2101, this is still our seventeeth anniversary und I hope we will go out from it with a bank rather then a whisper. Of course, we have the reconstructured synagogue to look forward at, but this is not till later on the year. In the meantime there is a lot of water to flow over the bridge. I think it would be a good idea if we could combine eggtivities so that they are both entertaining und will bring up money for the building funt.

Maybe there will be another commemoration service, but it looks to me like we are short of a mayor socialist event. So I would hier und now like to lunch a competition to find the best idea for the final celebration of this seventh decayed of our synagogue. To start kick it off I propose a jamboree. This I do because it will be difficult to stage something substencil at Belsize Square while the building still goes on.

The jamboree would be a hole day in the open air where we can have barbie queues, treasure haunt und perhaps other outside things like tossing the capon. Mrs Klopstick thinks that something on the style of the Glastonberry festivity might be quite good, but with better toilets. This is our sorts, you should give your suggestions too. Please write to the synagogue office und address your ideals to F. Klopstick at the 7 Decayed Support Building Event Competition. The winner will be shown on my Kolumn in the months up coming.

With the best of intentions

Fritz Klopstick