Parents & Friends Community 

This Sunday, 6 September, is Fathers’ Day and normally, at this time of year, we’d be having a stall from which our kids could purchase a gift for their parent or guardian. This year, in lieu of holding the stall, the Parents and Friends Community is holding a competition to find the Best Dad’s Joke, and offering a list of local gift suggestions for dads. First, the competition…

Best Dad’s Joke Competition: Win a Specsavers spectacles voucher valued at $299.

We are expecting lots of great entries so the runner-up will now receive a $120 chocolate hamper from Brighton Chocolates, 334 Bay Street, Brighton.

We’re on the hunt for the best dad’s joke our school community has to offer! Email yours to pfc@brighton.vic.edu.auby 5PM Friday 4 September and we’ll see which one makes us groan the most (the sign of a good dad’s joke) and announce the winner, and publish the top 10, on Monday on Compass. Good luck! 

Father’s Day local gift suggestions 

• Top choice: BPS COOKBOOK: “Brighton Bites: Recipes from our table to yours” $30. Purchase your copy from one of the book’s major sponsors – Church Street Butchers at 85 Church Street, Brighton. A deliciously perfect gift for dads and a great keepsake of your child’s time at BPS. Our latest school cookbook is jam-packed with recipes for everything from Sri Lankan curry to Brazilian Fish Stew. Scroll down for some of its seasonal recipes.

Other gift ideas from local traders, or BPS family businesses, which have supported BPS:

• Agathe Patisserie (croissants & cakes): www.https://shop.agathe.com.au Click & Deliver.
• Brighton Chocolates (freckles! and much more): www.brightonchocolates.com.au Click & Collect from 334 Bay Street, or free delivery within bayside for Fathers’ Day.
• Royale Brothers (burgers): www.royalebrothers.com.au Click & Collect from rear 1 Church Street.
• Fish Tank (fresh & cooked seafood): www.fishtankbrighton.com.au Call 95920697 & Collect from 20 Church Street.
• Thesaurus Books: www.indies.com.au/thesaurus/ Click & Collect from 29 Church Street or free delivery within 10kms.
• Vivace Restaurant (takeaway food): www.vivace.com.au Click & Collect from 317 Bay Street.
• Minimax (books & homewares): www.minimax.com.au Click & free delivery within 5km of Brighton.
• Sports Conscious (quality sportswear): www.sportsconscious.com.au Click & Collect.
• Elwood Bathers (takeaway food): www.elwoodbathers.com Call 95256933 & Collect from 15 Elwood Foreshore.
• Sally Hillman (champagne glasses, etc.): www.sallyhillman.com.au Click & Delivery.
• Church Street Butchers: Open at 85 Church Street, Brighton. The butchers have shared two recipe ideas in our cookbook, for dad’s day lunch: Honey, pineapple and chilli lamb leg (p.146) and Rib eye steaks with dried oregano rub (p.147).

Get cooking: ‘Brighton Bites’ recipes ripe for cooking in Spring

• Lemons and limes (Salmon with coconut, mint and zesty lime dressing – p.124 & Lemon and coconut cake – p.210);
• Strawberries (French toast with strawberries – p.24)
• Beans (Pasta and pesto with potatoes and green beans – p.184);
• Capsicum (Italian rice salad – p.60);
• Carrots (Clever carrot salad – p.100 & Kim’s carrot cake – p.209);
• Cauliflower (Moroccan roasted cauliflower – p.174);
• Cucumber (Nepalese salad – p.98);
• Parsnips (Easy-peasy no-knead parsnip bread – p.90);
• Potatoes (Dar’s Irish potato bread – p.91 & Zemiakove placky – p.69);
• Silverbeet (Potato and silverbeet pie – p.176);
• Spinach (Popeye pasta – p.72 & Roast pumpkin and spinach risotto – p.178 & Spinach and ricotta lasagne – p.179 & Moroccan lentil pie – p.190 & Pasta alfredo with greens – p.193);
• Spring onion (Salmon patties – p.125);
• Zucchini (Tuna and zucchini casserole - p.122 & Zucchini slice – p.70 & Baby calamari salad – p.100).

Happy Fathers’ Day to all the BPS Dads and Grandfathers and Guardians. Thank you for all you do for us. And our sympathies go out to all those who have lost their Dad or Granddad, or simply can’t be with them this year. Hang in there, everyone.