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We have Oatlands Spring Fest, 17th October 2010............... feel like putting all ya Commos in the Parade there????? They have allowed me the Footy Field for all my Friends on Bikes.. can FOR SURE squeeze some Cars in........Parade starts @ 12.30, so if any Takers, be there well before then, please.................... .................

http://www.heritageh... pring-festival/

When: Sunday 17 October 2010
Location: Oatlands, Tasmania
Contact: Ms Evalyn Curtis, 03 6254 1212 or email: ecurtis@southernmidlands. tas.gov.au


Details:
Come along and help us celebrate our 10th Birthday.

We are an umbrella event of the Southern Midlands Council who have put their support behind the festival since it's inception in 2000.

Oatlands Spring Festival has become an annual event, 2010 will be it's 10th year.

The theme is "Sample The Midlands" included with our Monster Market this year is the Local Mini Market. (Make it, Bake it, Grow it)

We invite you to dress in period costume along with others from 1820's to 1970's, please feel free to dress in your own costume or contact us for help. Children are welcome to just dress up in your favourite character or dress just for fun.

Any Tasmaniacs going to meet the Steve Irwin & the Bob Barker tomorrow?? A spare berth or 2 on me Boat, if interested...... I will be @ Marine Terrace Boat ramp @ 6 AM........................ .....we have a Crew Member staying here @ the moment.......

Well, you could Fevola me over with a feather after seeing that...................... .

Secret to hangover-free drinking found

* James Jordan, Sky News
* From: NewsCore
* March 05, 2010 6:22AM

http://www.news.com.... 0-1225837189165

THE dreaded morning-after feeling could be a thing of the past after scientists in South Korea came up with a technique that allows drinkers to avoid a hangover.

A team of researchers added extra oxygen to drinks and found that the body was then able to metabolize the booze quicker and eliminate the alcohol quicker - cutting down the after affects, Sky News reported.

Healthy humans were given 240ml and 360ml drinks containing 19.5 percent alcohol by volume - all with different amounts of oxygen added.

The results, documented in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, showed those who consumed the more highly oxygenated drinks recovered more quickly and saw their blood alcohol levels return to normal more speedily.

Researchers In-hwan Baek, Byung-yo Lee and Kwang-il Kwon of Chungnam National University's College of Pharmacy concluded: "Elevated dissolved oxygen concentrations in alcoholic drinks accelerate the metabolism and elimination of alcohol.


"Thus, enhanced dissolved oxygen concentrations in alcohol may have a role to play in reducing alcohol-related side effects and accidents."

The only downside the researchers found was that the process also reduced the amount of time drinkers were actually drunk for.

A Korean drinks company is now launching an oxygenated 'soju' drink called O2 Lin - a drink the company says "helps clarify your brain, energizes your body cells, and maintains healthy and resilient skin”.

Dirty truth about Brits and their sheets

* From: mX
* February 17, 2010 4:05PM

http://www.news.com.... i-1225831465132
A UK study has shown half a million Brits only wash their sheets three times a year, mX reported.

One in six people also owned up to waiting at least four weeks before washing their bed sheets. Londoners are the worst culprits with a quarter of those polled leaving it at least a month before washing their bed linen, the insurance firm survey found.

Under-25s tended to have the dirtiest sheets, with one in 10 admitting to washing theirs only six times a year, and half of all people surveyed admitted to eating in bed.

Houseproud over-55s aired their dirty laundry on average three times a month.

"It's estimated that 10 per cent of the weight of a two-year-old pillow is comprised of dead skin and dust mites," said expert Dr Lisa Ackerley.

"So it's no surprise that your bed can become a minefield of bacteria, viruses, sweat and hair which can cause or exacerbate asthma.
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"You need to wash your bed linen at least once a fortnight, and preferably once a week.





And Brits wonder why we call them "Cricket Bats"...............