December Beachside Bugle 2013

4 Tingira Cres

t: 4232 4990

littleblowholecafe@gmail.com www.littleblowholecafe.com December 2013

Beachside Bugle Brought to you monthly by Cathy and her team at your local cafe

Buy local this Christmas The Made in Kiama Handmade Night Market has really struck a chord since its launch last Christmas. It attracts huge crowds and has become a wonderful way to support local manufacturers, necessitating the market's move to the Pavilion mid-year. Two nights of market shopping have been organised just in time for Christmas, featuring the very best locally handmade produce, arts and craft.

This year we will be positioned by the front door on the Pavilion's verandah selling food to eat there, so you can really make an evening of it. Kel and Mahlah from The Pines will be selling their gelato right next to us!

Details: Weds 18 and Thurs 19 December, from 5.30 to 9.30pm, Kiama Pavilion www.facebook.com/madeinkiama

Join us for Tapas this summer For our third year, we will again be morphing into a Summer Tapas Bar on Friday and Saturday evenings. After our launch on New Year's Eve, we will carry on until the end of January.

Tapas is the perfect food for a lazy summer evening. You can order as many small dishes to share as you like, to enjoy a wide range of flavours while relaxing with a wine or beer.

Rather than sticking strictly to its Spanish origins, we make it multicultural so we can enjoy tastes from around the world (much to the bemusement of a group of Spanish tourists who stumbled upon us last year – they ate all of our traditional offerings, a compliment in itself!).

If you haven't popped around in the past, make sure you do this year.

James’ BBQ Octopus will be one of the Tapas dishes

Details: From 6-9pm, New Year's Eve and Friday and Saturdays until 1 Feb.

New Summer Menu

Support your local musicians If you haven't caught our own David Christopher or Joe Mungovan playing at local venues, then you really should get out more. They epitomise hard working musos looking to get a break.

We've enclosed a copy of our new Summer Menu with this edition. As you'll see it retains your favourites, but has been expanded to include specials so popular they need to be offered every day – such our Big Veggie Breakfast and our addictive Mexican Pulled Pork Roll.

On the drink front, we are now making our own iced tea and smoothies, and have found a very nice alcoholic ginger beer...

Holiday opening hours Over Christmas, we will only be closed on Christmas Eve (our usual Tuesday), Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. So you’ll have plenty of time to wander around and relax over the holiday period.

We will be open on New Year’s Eve to launch our Tapas Nights, even though it is a Tuesday, and stay open until nine (given you'll all want to go down and watch the fireworks).

Joe, also part of Tommy M & the Mastersounds, is only a year or so out of Kiama High. A blend of folk, indie, blues and roots fuse together to produce his unique sound. He is launching his debut EP June + July at Jamberoo Pub on Sat 7 Dec, coming on stage at 10pm.

David is a more seasoned musician, having worked around the world before moving here.

He's played at the Cafe, and has a very enthusiastic following. His album, Apartment, was launched with a series of concerts recently.

He is playing at Torys on Fri 6 Sept and at Carols in the Park the next week, and the Blue Diamond and the Mecure later in December.

Not to beat about the bush, their music would make great Christmas presents...

Check them out and contact them through: www.triplejunearthed.com/DavidChristopher www.triplejunearthed.com/JoeMungovan

Looking for a good home for your old Lego?

In preparation for its popular annual Kids’ Lego Building Competition, held in early January, Kiama Library is looking for donations of unwanted Lego!

If you can bear to part with it, drop it into Kiama Library during opening hours, or pickup can be arranged.

Coming to you soon: Kiama Farmers' Market!

So pleased to let you know that we've finally got the approval to start a weekly Farmers' Market down at Black Beach. Now we need your help to make it become a local institution, by building it into your weekly shopping regime.

Right from the start, we have been resolute in our commitment to creating a genuine Farmers' Market, giving food producers and artisan manufacturers the opportunity to sell their product direct to the public. The easiest way to understand this concept is that there will be no reselling allowed – stallholders will have to produce the food they sell, not buy it from others.

It will focus entirely on food – everything from fruit and veg to bread, milk, meals for dinner and sweet treats.

By cutting out the middle man, the money will flow directly back into the food economy, and help make farming sustainable.

Of course, the catch is that the food available will be seasonal – but isn't that an ideal that we are all being encouraged to embrace? We'll be able to have celebrations to mark the arrival of different vegetables and fruit, rather than expecting to be able to have access to them all year round.

Look at these beautiful local ingredients we got from Greenbox for our 50 Kilometre Dinner!

Ours will be the only weekly Farmers' Market south of Sydney, with the next closest one being in Moruya. We made a trip down there to check it out, and were impressed by the sense of community it engendered. We want our Market to be a place to go to each week to meet up with friends, enjoy the beauty of our harbour and take home fresh local food.

We are currently in the process of sourcing stallholders and various other organisational activities. If you are interested in help our not-forprofit organisation to get this up and running, please contact Cathy at the Cafe.

Details: The first market will be on Wednesday 5 February, from 3-6pm, and it will be on every Wednesday after that. Potential stallholders should email kiamafarmersmarket@gmail.com

Place your order soon so you don’t miss out We are again taking orders for hams from the Burrawang Butcher and making traditional Christmas puddings and cakes.

Our cloth-bound puddings are made to an old family recipe, and have attracted a loyal following. You just put it on the boil while you are eating your lunch, and there is even more food to eat! And you can't beat a slice of good old fashioned Christmas cake.

Puddings Two serves (250g) Four serves (500g) Six serves (750g) Eight serves (1kg)

Cakes $12 $22 $33 $40

250g 500g 1kg 1.5kg

$ 9 $18 $36 $48

Burrawang ham $15/kg for a full or half leg. As a guide, half legs are 4 to 5 kg. Orders for ham must be in by Monday 16 Dec, with $20 deposit.

End of the reel In the end of an era dating back to the Fifties, the last film is to be shown at Gerringong Town Hall this Friday. Technological changes have left reel to reel film by the wayside, and the costs for a voluntary organisation of getting professional digital equipment is prohibitive.

Pics and Flicks did a great job of giving us an alternative to the blockbuster. Their last film is a Czech one, Kawasaki's Rose, a drama confronting our beliefs and feelings about memory, idealism and forgiveness. Thanks to everyone who has helped make it happen over the years.

Ironically, on that same night, the first of our Kiama's free Summer Outdoor Movies will screen at Hindmarsh Park. The 200 competitors in town for the Australian Junior Surfing Titles will be amongst those to enjoy the big wave movie Storm Surfers, which follows two-time world surfing champion Tom Carroll and big wave pioneer Ross Clarke-Jones as they chase giant Australian Winter swells.

Three other movies will be shown in February, in Jamberoo (1st), Gerringong (7th) and Kiama (14th). Program still to be announced.

Details: 6 December, 8.30pm, Hindmarsh Park.

Bring low beach chairs or a picnic rug.

Movie is free, but collection will be taken up for the Red Cross NSW Bushfire Appeal.

New functionality on Council website Checked out the Council's website recently?

It has a fresh new look and now has on-line services which allow you to do things like submit and track the progress of your DA on your computer. You can also pay bills on-line and request services. I liked playing around with the interactive maps on the site, which show contours, zoning etc.

And planning ahead And just in case I don’t get another Bugle out before the beginning of January, the Kiama Jazz Club has organised a free Twilight Jazz & Blues Concert at Hindmarsh Park on Thursday 2 January, 6-9pm Their annual evening picnic will feature the swinging Latino jazz and Sinatra sounds of the Dane Laboyrie Quintet plus the sensational blues of the Dorothy Jane Band.

Dorothy Jane Gosper, a knockout at the Café during the Jazz & Blues Festival, is Australia's foremost lady harp player - a rich, engaging and generous performer. Dane, cool and smooth on trumpet and vocals, is one of the young breed of sophisticates who excel in creating exciting jazz inspired by classic swing legends like ol' blue eyes himself.

Sounds like a great way to spend a summer’s evening with friends and family.

Reminder: Carols in the Park Weds 11 December, from 7.30pm in Hindmarsh Park. See you there!

Noticeboard Look good for Christmas The phone is running hot at the Salon on Tingira, so if you want to get your hair done before Christmas (and who doesn’t?), Roz says book in soon to avoid disappointment.

They will be closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and from Monday the 30th to Thursday 2nd Jan. Both Ros and Roz wish you a wonderful Christmas and New Year, and thank you for your support in 2013.

To make a booking, call 4232 3918

Details: www.kiama.nsw.gov.au Please note: While we try to get everything right, we are only human and cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions.