We were all shocked and saddened by the recent events in Haiti.  As such, the club has made a donation to ShelterBox, which is an international disaster relief charity that delivers emergency shelter, warmth and dignity to people affected by disaster worldwide.  For more info on ShelterBox's activities - http://www.shelterbox.org

Well December is here and Chrimbo is just around the corner!  Already gearing up nicely.  Thursday evening saw Burnham High Street's Christmas fayre.  We did very nicely with our tombola at the top end of the road, by the old tuck shop - making £62.60 towards the OAPs Christmas Party.  Alex - you took one for the team dressing up as a snowman and harranging all and sundry with Rotaract recruitment literature.  I salute you, sir!

We got into the spirit of things with a club visit to the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden.  Big thumbs up to the array of cakes in Cafe Twit!  Excellent opportunity to get into the world of one of the most versatile and enigmatic writers of his day, and to get up close to the jacket that Johnny Depp wore in the 2005 film version of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory – ooh!  Dahl’s stories for children in particular have a timeless quality about them.  To wander through the village of Great Missenden itself (where the author lived from 1954 to his death in 1990) is to understand some of the influences on his writing; The BP pumps at 64 High Street inspired the description of the garage in Danny the Champion of the World, while the timber-framed building at Crown House, 70 High Street, was Dahl's inspiration for Sophie's 'norphanage' in The BFG.

To round off a spooky day nicely we headed down to High Wycombe Rotaract’s excellent Halloween party in the evening.  Always a good show this event, well done chaps!

Phew!  Still recovering from another mad Rotaract weekend; our club's very own Pub Skittles night on Friday followed by the 10K run for Cancer Research at a very blustery Dorney Lake on Sunday.  Shout outs go to champion 'Skittler' Keith Evans from Burnham Rotary who knocked down all before him at the Seven Stars Pub on the A4, while it was great to see the 'out of district' Woking Rotaract contingent on the night.  Oh, and also to our club members who selflessly called 're-draw' when they kept winning raffle prizes!  Think we raised in the region of £40 for good causes.

2 club members ran the 10K on the Sunday raising over £200 for Cancer Research, where we bumped into Maidenhead Rotaract's contingent who were marshalling on the day.  Eton College have got a very impressive set up down there at the rowing lake - bring on the Olympics in 2012, can't wait*!  Post-run de-brief at the Pineapple pub down the road in the Dorney; hugely busy but the London Pride and legendary Fish Finger sandwiches made up for it!

*anyone who's as excited as I am about the Olympics, (no really!) - check out this link for volunteering opportunities - http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/volunteering/index.php.

Job's a good'un!  Editing of Burnham Rotaract's first short film entry is complete, and the finished work has been posted off to the judging panel in more .mpeg/.avi formats than you could wave a stick at - hoorah!

And that's a wrap guys!   Well, after a truly mammoth Sunday in sweltering late Summer conditions we've finally got all the scenes in the can for our club entry to the inaugral Rotaract District 1090 Film Festival.   Ahead lies many nights of rigourous editing to get our entry down to the maximum allowable 6 minutes.   At this juncture I'm not allowed to divulge any more about our film, except to say that I'm now busily researching copyright law on the internet!  I hope to get some teaser movie stills up here in due course, but in the meantime you eager beaver movie buffs out there will just have to wait for the grand screening at the Film Festival on Saturday 14th November.   .... And cut!