Passing Clouds Holiday Homes

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Inside this Issue:
Pastor Pete's Inflatable Chapel!

   'Show Time' with Tony Fondle

                 Bunty de Brie's Tip of the Week

                 Jammin' with Theodore Snake

   'Beneath the Blanket' with Mrs Leatherbarrow

Editor's Pick

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The Fernlea Super Voyager

Editor's pick for June is the formidable Fernlea Super Voyager 48 and probably the best caravan there is!
Posing as a traditional 48 foot luxury home, the Super Voyager disguises some remarkable inovations that make it truly exceptional amongst vans of its class.
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Gone, are the little plastic cups with criss-cross cuts that allow tea towels to be poked inside, with the added risk of pinching your fingers in the process. The Super Voyager 48 is fitted with a clever little brass hook next to the sink drainer and holds a complementary, Fernlea embossed, tea towel and oven glove set.

It's that kind of luxury that makes tomorrow's dream become today's reality.

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Coming Soon

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Van make-overs with Bunty de Brie.

Stylish make-over ideas for your luxury home, plus Bunty's tip of the week.

Bunty's Tip of the Week

2010-06-16T20:50:00.000+01:00

Ever found the perfect addition for your luxury home? That little discovery happened upon by chance when browsing through some emporium, or other, and thought, wonderful! Then sat comfortably with a lemon cordial on your bay window sofa, cum pull-out double bed, admiring your new adornment. But as your gaze shifts to the wall above the gas hob, it strikes you! that glaring red violation, the fire extinguisher.

Well, we've all been there, and we know the importance of a fire extinguisher in our holiday homes. But what if we could do something to soften the intrusion? Well here's my tip of the week...

The fire sock - a simple idea that's fun to make. Any old sock will do, and a little loop sewn into the top will act as a neat hook to hang on the fridge door handle
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Next week, oven gloves with attitude.

Bunty de Brie is the home design and lifestyle correspondent for the Rhyl Examiner.
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Carlos Speaks

2010-06-16T14:55:00.002+01:00

Lord Roberts. Owner of Passing Clouds Holiday Homes

Like millions of soccer fans all over the world, Passing Clouds is counting down the days to this summer’s world cup tournament in South Africa.

I was honoured at the weekend to attend the launch of our new Phase Three development, here at the retreat, and was deeply humbled by a special ceremony to mark the achievements made in South Africa, with the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate the opening of our new Nelson Mandela car park.

Access to the new Nelson Mandela car park will be via the existing John F Kennedy coin operated security barrier.

Hey! Welcome back.

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Ming and Tabetha, reunited. (archive photo)

It’s a warm welcome back to Ming and Tabetha following their return from the Birkenhead Emulsifier plant on the Wirral and the successful operation to remove the yellow growth on the side of Ming’s beak.

More good news was the reopening of the dolphinarium and the Board of Trade approval on welding repairs to the side of the tank.

So, it’s business as usual and feeding time will be held every afternoon at four o’clock. This will be for Tabetha only, at the moment, as Ming is currently being fed through a tube. But hey! Why not throw a few fish through the old kitchen blender and give Ming a treat too!

It’s party time, folks!

Star Struck!

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Luke Benidorm

Highlights from the hit TV show ‘Rhyl’s Got Talent’ with Luke Benidorm.

Sally Quench-Jenkins can put away her bio-degradable bags and look to the future as she steps from simple Tesco checkout girl to international ventriloquial stardom. She was spotted by Luke at the Llandudno superstore when she vented a voice into his tin of corned beef on the checkout conveyor belt. Then, to the amazement of gathered shoppers, she managed to throw her voice into a box of Persil, third shelf up next to the freezer aisle.

But it was her performance in last night’s ‘Rhyl’s Got Talent’ grand final that set her on the road to world acclaim. Her victory, scooping eighty three percent of the personal alarms for the elderly vote, is seen as a record for the popular talent show.

Last year’s winner, Ifor Davis (the yodelling bailiff) performed his Argos Blues hit before presenting Sally with a magnificent floral bouquet.

Well done, Sally. Have a gottle of geer.

Pump up the Lord!

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Pastor Pete. Pumping up the Lord

This weekend sees the celebration of the festival of St Dudno, after whom, nearby Llandudno was named.
Helping out with the Lord praising side of things will be our old friend, Pastor Pete,
who'll be bringing along his famous inflatable chapel.

Many of you will remember Pete for his unusual, and certainly unorthodox, baptism rituals. But divided opinion is a challenge Pastor Pete has always met with good grace, and it’s good to see him back in North Wales, following a long period of absence.

Sunday’s service will commence with a congregational salute to St Dudno’s ancient home, the Great Orme. Then, following tea and biscuits, the pump will be started and the inflation will commence.

‘A gust is a wind to those who pray’

Pastor Pete

Pastor Pete's Inflatable Worship Hall

Hello Charlie!

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Dring-Dring!

It’s Charlie Chumpy, folks. ‘The deranged gynaecologist’ who’ll be pedalling his scooter round the retreat this Summer with tricks and treats up his sleeve to entertain kids of all ages – yes grandma – we mean you too!

Don’t forget to give him a wave, Kids.

Brendan's Choice

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Brendan Thirlmere

From time to time, like most men, I like to varnish my feet with polyurethane wood stain. Sometimes I varnish a little higher up the leg and draw a thin black pencil line half way up the back of the calf, for greater effect.

Chit-chat, I know, but on a recent visit to France I was devastated to learn the government had imposed a ban on the use of polyurethane products with certain swimwear garments. Quel dommage! I cried. Frome-Fromage! What if the security scanner at Paris Charles de Gaulle were to detect my varnish! It was a long lasting, UV protected application too!

The solution, as it turned out, was remarkably simple…

You can read Brendan’s exciting story ‘Hot Legs’ in this week’s Rhyl Examiner.

Brendan Thirlemere is chief science and travel correspondent for the Rhyl Examiner

Show Time!

2010-06-16T07:52:00.000+01:00

Stratos Entertainment in association with Ivor Parry-Jones Presents:

"The Tony Fondle Experience"

Reving up, Tony Fondle
Star of sixties TV hit show ‘The Fondle Family’

He’s back! Old favourite Tony Fondle heads an all star line up for our super spring schedule.

...Hit me! Tony.

Also coming in spring:

Graham Zodiac

Man of mystery and internationally acclaimed hypnotist – be amazed as you go under his power.

The Llandudno Women’s Male-Voice Choir.
Old Man River, and many more

Ifor Davies

(The yodeling bailiff) ‘I come knocking’ - ‘Argos blues’ all your old favourites.

Tickets, as always, available from Heather Roberts at reception.

As you've never seen him before...

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Ifor Davis (the yodeling bailiff)

Raising the Challenger

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Challenger. Almost there

She has rested on the sea bed for over eighty years, barnacled, rusting and forgotten to the world. But now the Challenger is being raised to the surface and will return to Rhyl after her long voyage through time. It was the great storm of September 1936 that sent Challenger to the bottom, and though no fatalities were reported, her loss was deeply felt by the local community.

Built for the Rhyl and Prestatyn Steam Package company, Challenger became an old favourite for passengers plying the coast of North Wales, with many enjoying stunning scenery from her open top deck.

But the long journey that commenced in September 1936 is now nearing an end. Salvage teams are preparing for the final lift, ten metres from the end of Rhyl pier, and Challenger will finally come home. It will be a deeply moving day for the communities of Rhyl and Prestatyn, where a tear or two will certainly be shed .

Welcome home dear old friend. Welcome home mighty Challenger!

MV Abergele. Heavy lift vessel

Challenger. Hand brake problems were well known..

You da Man, Geraint!

2010-06-14T09:16:00.007+01:00

Rap Star Theodore Snake

Rap star, Theodore Snake, caused a sensation during his live performance at Passing Clouds last night. The Hip-Hop legend was performing in front of a packed audience at the Forrester show bar, when he interrupted his act to introduce, on stage, what he described as 'a mega discovery in the world of rap' local shepherd Geraint Lewis-Jenkins from Portmadoc.

Geraint was spotted by Snake as the rapper was taking ‘time out’ to see some of the North Wales scenery. He described how he heard a low, tremulous rap beat coming from a field somewhere nearby. He looked over a hedge and saw Geraint working his dog, Totty.

Skull Jackson, Theodore’s personal bodyguard, described what happened next.

‘T da man sow the bro in da field, an Da bro was wid da sheep, man.’

Geraint wowed the audience with what is now believed to be some of the earliest examples of European rap music known. At one point, he took his teeth out and rapped a Denbighshire mule song, rattling the dentures like a pair of castanets on his knee.

Excited but tired, Geraint said after his performance, ’When Mr Snake popped his head over the hedge, I was shifting trespassers off my field, and he gave me quite a surprise. I thought he was speaking Welsh, at first! You don‘t often see folk like him in Portmadoc.’

Yo da boyo! Geraint.

Stolen

2010-06-13T07:26:00.011+01:00

A pair of green Hunter wellingtons have been taken from outside Mrs Leatherbarrow’s Atlantis 36 footer, at the Brambles, here on the retreat. ‘The Wellingtons had been left out to air for a while,’ said Mrs Leatherbarrow, who has offered a small reward for the safe return of the boots.

She has pointed out, as an aid to identifying the missing Hunters, that their colour matches her Honda Civic.
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Anyone with any information regarding the disappearance please report to security, or Heather Roberts in reception.

A pair of green Hunters

Colour is identical to Mrs Leatherbarrow's Honda Civic.

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Time and Space

2010-06-07T10:36:00.020+01:00

"The Star Voyager Time Tunnel"

The new "Star Voyager Time Tunnel" experience is launched this week at Passing Clouds Holiday Homes.

Described as The Ride of a Lifetime Star voyager is a Molecular Reconfiguration and Phase Shift Magnatron device (MRPSM) and has been approved by the Board of Trade and the North Wales Welding Federation.

Captain Mike Peach. Voyager's Pilot

First in the queue, for a ride of his life time, is Brendan Thirlmere, The Rhyl Examiners science, food and technology correspondent. In an explosive article, featured in this weeks issue, Brendan reveals a very personal story that he feels the Star Voyager may help to redress.

This is Brendan's moving story:

A long time ago, I was reading a Dan Dare comic while waiting for a job interview.

(Dan Dare was a British comic book hero who was hailed as ‘The World’s Number One Space Hero,’ and ‘Pilot of the Future!’)

He was a hero of mine, and the issue I was reading that day showed a cut-away picture of his space rocket. The picture showed where everything was, the flight deck, the main engine, the radio room; etc. Anyhow, at the front of the rocket there was a section that was left blank, with a note that read: ’Top Secret. Not to be revealed until 2010’

Well, I’ve waited all these years to find out what was hidden in the front of Dan’s rocket, But nothing’s happened. Years of wondering, when the world was facing so many great events, I was focussed on the day when all would be revealed in Dan’s rocket.

I’m not bitter, but had I been able to time travel, all those years ago, I’d have jetted to 2010 and found out it was all a ruse. Then, I’d have exposed Dan Dare as the fraud he was, and saved legions of his fans the torment of un-rewarded expectancy.

The bastard!

Brendan Thirlmere. Not bitter

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New! Live Events from Around the Retreat

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Live Retail Demonstration from the Hunter Conference Centre

Live Broadcast from the Temple of the Yellow Orchid

Live Interview with Father Rab