Dinner at Phons Thai Restaurant, Cotton Tree

Dinner at Phons 24/04/14

It was a beautiful night to be out to dinner by the river. As usual, Phon's served us some very large and tasty Thai meals as the group of Sirens chattered away and enjoyed the company and food.

Princess Pammie enjoying her curry

Who let Lady Spillalot loose with the chopsticks?



Queen Sandi ....birthday girl



Kim with enormous curry

Judith tucks in

Linda attempts to use her huge spoon

Paddy awaits dinner

Barb and Kim

Pad Thai for fun

Carolyn :chopsticks or silverware?

Lunch at Coral Tagine, Maroochydore 10th April 2014

Coral Tagine lunch with The Sunshine Sirens

Paddy (Lady Patrizia Pinot Noir) organised a lovely get together for lunch at the Coral Tagine restaurant at Maroochydore on Thursday 10th April. Eleven ladies gathered to enjoy a lovely lunch, some even sampling the dessert menu as well!

Paddy looking gorgeous and very relaxed after her recent cruise

Queen Sandi with Linda who seems to have gotten into the spirit of red hatting already

Sisters Princess Pammie and Barb, Dame Billie T share a laugh

Lesley (Betty Boop)

Marilyn, Lady No Work getting into practice 

Lady Carolyn (of Southern Comfort & Shooz) with Chris



Judi B (Baroness Brandy A)

Yvonne (Marchioness of Mirth)

The Sunshine Sirens Members Profile: Princess Pammie (Pamela)

Princess Pammie (Pamela)

Princess Pammie (on the left) with her sister Barb (Dame Billie T)

 

Princess Pammie ( a princess in a former life) had no trouble choosing a red hat name, however she does struggle with the red hat colour palette....she's NOT fond of purple! Consequently you will notice that Princess Pammie seems to celebrate an awful lot of birthdays so she can reverse the colours and wear mainly red ,a more acceptable colour to her. (Orange would be more to her liking still!)

Princess Pammie grew up in Yeppoon on the Central Queensland Coast, where she happily ate lots of pineapples and prawns and loved to go bodysurfing during big storms.
In the early 80's she moved to live in New York and continued to live in the Big Apple until 2012. Her only son still resides there, so the NY connection continues despite Pamela moving back to Australia to live at Cotton Tree which was an old family-favourite camping area during her childhood.

Pamela enjoys the relaxed Queensland lifestyle. She spends many happy hours walking with Lily (her beautiful by somewhat precious King Charles Cavalier) in the park and along Maroochydore Beach. Lily joins her mistress in bike rides or kayaking on the Maroochy river, but to date has not learned to play tennis!!

Pamela was drawn  in to red hatting by her sister, VQ Dame Billie T (Barb) and shares Barb's love of travel, books and meeting people.

The Sunshine Sirens Members profile: Duchess of Craft (Hazel)

Duchess of  Craft (Hazel)

Duchess of Craft, Hazel

As her chosen red hat name implies, Hazel enjoys many forms of craft. Sewing, crochet, beadwork and making cloth dolls are among her repertoire of craft based activities.

With a large extended family of three children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren, Hazel is kept pretty busy, but still manages to find time to follow her passion for music and she plays with a band (not a rock band!)

When Hazel was young she dreamed of being a domestic science teacher. She started work as a pharmacy assistant at fifteen.

Hazel enjoys reading novels across a variety of genres. A special interest is researching family history.

Her favourite tipple is...ginger beer! And since her aim is to continue to enjoy good health...maybe she's onto something.
Travel features high on Hazel's bucket list. She'd especially like to do some more travel in Europe , but closer to home, Fraser Island is also high on her wish list. She really enjoyed our red hat outing on the Brisbane River paddle steamer and city cat last year.

The Sunshine Sirens members profile: Lady Burlesque (Judith MacK)

Lady Burlesque (Judith MacK)

Lady Burlesque (Judith)

Lady Burlesque may seem a risqué name (but not for a Siren!!) and it comes about from Judith's experience at line dancing, trying to conquer a difficult dance routine called "Burlesque".

Judith is in fact a refined lady; mother of five and grandmother of six with a very active life both socially and giving her time to the community (she works at Nambour General Hospital as a volunteer in the canteen).

Judith's early dream was to become a hair dresser. She started work at fourteen as a waitress. Somewhere along the way she got into ballroom dancing, and dancing and music continue to be a passion of Judith's. Her fantasy would be to win lotto and learn to play her keyboard really well and become a musician!

Judith enjoys reading historical novels and "Gone with the Wind" is a long time favourite. (She's still waiting for someone to do the sequel!)

Judith enjoys the company of good friends, good food, good fun and fellowship. Sipping a crisp dry white wine accompanied by Thai or Indian food surrounded by a whole lot of cheerful friends would be her ideal night out.

Interests such as gardening, especially her beloved pot plants and fancy work, (she'd love to learn to crochet too) keep her busy. She'd secretly love to be a computer nerd also.
Tasmania is her favourite travel destination, and with her motto "Where there's a will there's a way" I'm sure she'll achieve whatever she really wants to.

The Sunshine Sirens members profile: Lady Laughalot (TC)

Lady Laughalot (TC)

Lady Laughalot smiling and happy

It's not difficult to understand why TC chose Lady Laughalot as her red hat name....she does laugh. A lot!
She is also always very chic and elegant and sports some amazingly creative hats to various outings. These hats she makes herself, and they are literally prize-winners, and very eye-catching. As a lady of such style, it's no surprise really to also learn that TC started her working life in modelling. Her daughter has also followed this path.

TC's favourite colours are pastel lemon and pink. With a fair complexion and blonde hair, this colour palette suits her, but she's learning to love red and purple (or at least trying to embrace it). She already has lots of hats in her wardrobe and she keeps adding to them or re-modelling them to suit the occasion.

TC is into cooking, with a special passion for French cuisine. Her teenage dream was to become a chef and it's still her fantasy to one day become a chef.  I guess it's never too late to realise a dream. Her other creative outlet is woodworking.

This year will see the birth of TC's first grandson, and she'd dearly love to visit him in London in the near future, but in the mean time she'd settle for a holiday on a gorgeous island anywhere in the world.

With her personal motto of "Be happy", TC is just happy to be anywhere with a bunch of similarly happy people. I think we fit the bill quite nicely!

The Sunshine Sirens members profile: Lady No Work (Marilyn)

Lady No Work  (Marilyn)

our fun loving Marilyn, Lady No Work

Marilyn loves bright colours and hates housework....hence her chosen red hat name.

As a teenager, Marilyn always wanted to be a beautician, but at sixteen she started work as a Bank Officer instead. I'm unsure if she ever achieved her secret fantasy ambition to be a fan dancer, but it does go some way to explain her friendship with Countess Sunshine Heather (would-be pole dancer). Shared interests..... of course I mean crafts, such as felting etc. and a similar interest in books (murder/mysteries), not to mention a shared love of travel are a great basis for friendship and fun.

Talk of travel can definitely spark Marilyn's interest. She has done quite a lot of overseas travel herself and would like to do a lot more in the future. Italy was a real winner for Marilyn. She loves to cook, and her favourite drink is champagne. Italy is a good place to indulge in both. I just hope she doesn't decide to jump out of a plane on her next trip (well not without a parachute anyway) Skydiving is on her bucket list. She's the adventurous kind.

Marilyn has two children, David and Tasha and four grandchildren to keep her busy between jaunts away and all her craft activities. Her motto in life is "Be kind to everyone" and "Be kind to your mum".