Our communities’ kitchen

It’s 8.30AM and there are scrambled eggs, freshly cooked bacon, oven-roasted tomatoes and French toast.  Some mornings there are sausages and home-made spaghetti, pancakes and even bubble and squeak (always a favourite) and all for $2.  For those who prefer cereal, there is Weet-Bix or Corn Flakes and Porridge.  This is breakfast at the 139 Club.

Hearty, hot soup is served free all day and thanks to the generosity of local bakeries, bread for dipping and dunking. The kitchen is always busy and the dining room always bustling.

At 11.45AM lunch is served.  Casseroles, curries and pasta dishes; home-made pies, quiches and roasts, these are some of the menu items available and the price is very affordable at $3 per overflowing plate.  There are rumours that the meals are even quite tasty and the staff are friendly and smiling.  This pleases the kitchen staff very much.

As the day is winding down at 2PM platters of sweet buns and scrolls appear for afternoon tea, Patches our brave club mascot will indulged in feline wanders about the courtyard, watching pigeons and receiving loving pats from the kind people that access the 139 Club Inc .