Hi Folks UK – 2015 Year End November Sparklers Rose and I just back from an enjoyable evening watching 007 in his latest film Spectre. The film had some breath taking scenery from around the world and interestingly started with a colourful parade scene from the Festival of Death filmed in Mexico City. By coincidence, there was to be a Goan Halloween experience here in London, but like another recent event, a banner of “cancelled” had to be screamed. One can only guess that there was no point in having a Festival of Death unless some very top important people made it to the sudden death list. Next weekend before the Big Freeze sees Free Family and Fun Fireworks Nights in most town and cities near Goan settlements in the Kingdom see local press for details. In the London area on Fri 6 November Bishops Park SW6 Gates Open at 6pm Sat 7 November Battersea Park SW11 Gates Open 6pm Sat 7 November Ravenscourt Park W6 Gates Open 6pm Sat 7 November Alexandra Palace N22 Gates open 3pm Sun 8 Nov Remembrance Sunday Assemble 10.30am for 11.00am – Whitehall and around the world when we remember people who paid the ultimate price so that those of us in democratic countries enjoy the freedoms we have today. Sat 14 November London Lord Mayors Show between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge on the River Thames display starts at 5.15pm Sun 22 November, Fr Agnelo Day Assemble 1.00 pm for 1.30 start Holy Mass Prayers and Get Together Social, Still banging on the doors of Rome for the attention of the Pope that Fr Agnelo is not yet a Saint. Archbishop Lanfranc Academy Mitcham Road CR9 3AS (next to BP Petrol Pump) There is also to be our own Goan Big Bang, Date Unknown but in November 2015 when the Statutory Annual General Meeting of the GOA UK takes place, even though our people have better things to do rather than striving together to do things better it is very important that all members especially Life and the living make the effort and attend. 2016 should be the leap year when The 50th Anniversary of our once great caring organisation in the United Kingdom can be refurbished and brought back to its former glory all willing. Gone are the days when a lot of these sparkling events organised and supported by our own people took place including firework displays, festivals, autumn barbecues on the Goan Association UK’s own Freehold six and half acres of grounds, clubhouse and bungalow before the demolition team with cockroach mentality and self-enrichment in mind moved in. The space once occupied by the bungalow is now a two story building with four flats and no longer ours . Just like in the film Spectre the MI5(Secret Service) the building on the Thames is to be demolished and rumour has it that a development of flats will take place. In our case a community with no practical support are reduced to one Flat in a Tower Block (aka GOA Towers) rental income, minimal outgoings and no visible audited accountability that I can see until the next dance. Melvyn Fernandes Thornton Heath Surrey. 1st November 2015