Calling Sauna Comrades....

I am quite certain that after all the revolutionary exertions of the 7th November back in 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and his comrades, retired to the relaxing, recuperating and rejuvenating aqueous vapours of their sauna.....

Comradely attendees: Doctor D, Miri, Princess & Guest, Kali, Mac nan Alba, Baggage

The Main Feast: Doctor D,

On the Side: Princess & Guest

Dessert: Kali & Mac

Intoxicating Brews: Baggage

Promoting the remedial virtues of sauna elsewhere: Samir, Zany ...

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Sunday Sauna - 1 November

HallowMass

Saintly attendees: Doctor D, Baggage, Kali (may be a little late), Mac nan Alba, Mirri, Primrose Goddess

The Main Feast: Porcine delights by Doctor D and Baggage

On the Side: Primroses by Goddess

Soul Cakes:

Intoxicating Brews: Kali, Mac nan Alba

Taken by the spirits: Samir, Zany, Kitty Kat ...

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Sunday Sauna - October 25

The Central Committee of the Coven Comrades will ignore the fact that this day is (French Republican Calendar) – Betterave (Beetroot) Day, fourth day in the Month of Brumaire and turn our attention to remembering...

Октябрьская революция -

Oktyabr'skaya revolyutsiya

The October Revolution!

LOYAL COMRADES: Mirryska, Zanyenka, Samirovich, Doktor Davidoff, Bagagenskaya, Macovich nan Albski, Comrade Kallova, Comrades Rastas and Primrose...

LUBYANKA RATIONS:

DIRECTIVE#1 The People's Revolutionary Pizza. Bases supplied by the Bagagenskaya-Davidoff Collective.

DIRECTIVE#2 Workers will provide revolutionary toppings.

SUBVERSIVE SALAD: Comrade Zanyenka Clarkova

REVOLTING PUDDING: Comrades Rastas and Primrose

UP THE WORKERS DRINKS: Macovich nan Albski, Comrade Kallova

LUMPEN KITCHEN PROLE:

ANTI-REVOLUTIONARY SPLITISTS: Chekov, Tolstoy, Trotsky, Vanessa Redgrave, Komrades Kloudulitzer (Nikolena & Jonovich)...

Russian scrubbing will be available

Last week - Natasha, Katya, Ivan and Boris.

PLEASE NOTE: Two comrades are leaving for a mission in a foreign country on Tuesday, so please attend in order to make sure they leave!

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Sauna Sunday October 18.

AS you all know, Sunday the 18th is (French Republican Calendar) – Piment (Chili Pepper) Day, twenty-seventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire.

So ..



Who is hot this Sunday? Mirri, Zany, Samir, Mac N Alba, Kali, Pop Culture Tart, Baggage, Dr D....

Who is cooking? Mac n' Alba's Chili Pasta

Puddings: Pop Culture Tart's Famous Chili Pudding

Who is doing other things (sides/salads)?

Drinks? Dr D (Anglo-Ales), Baggage (Wine)

Washing up?

Whimping Out?: The Famous Kat..., Shez, Nicoletta de Fiddle...

"Can you hit any harder?"

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Sauna Club "Meditrinalia" Sunday October 11

Yep, we are celebrating all things Meditrinalia.... The Meditrinalia was an obscure festival celebrated on October 11 in honor of the new vintage, which was offered in libations to the gods for the first time each year.

Little information about the Meditrinalia survived from early Roman religion, although the tradition itself did. It was known to be somehow connected to Jupiter and to have been an important ceremony in early agricultural Rome, but beyond that, only speculation exists.

Angelina poses as Meditrina

Meditrina was a Roman goddess who seems to have been a late Roman invention to account for the origin of Meditrinalia. The earliest account of associating the Meditrinalia with such a goddess was by 2nd century grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus, on the basis of which she is asserted by modern sources to be the Roman goddess of health, longevity and wine, with an etymological meaning of "healer" suggested by some. Anyway... we are going to party. **PLEASE NOTE. As S & S are away until 4pm on Sunday they will be unable to contribute food this week.

THEM WOT IS COMING: Zany, The Blessed Samantha, Mirri, Samir, Dr D, PopCulture Tart, Mac nan Alba, Kali, David M ....

THEM WOT IS COOKING STUFF: The Blessed Samantha.

THEM WOT IS DOING RABBIT FOOD: PopCulture Tart

THEM WOT IS BRINGING CHEESE: Doctor D

THEM WHAT IS DOING DWINKS: David M is bringing wine

THEM WOT IS DOING PUDDINGISH THINGS: Kali & Mac nan Alba

THEM WOT IS CLEANING UP: The same old gaffer

THEM WOT HAS FEEBLE EXCUSE: Coco Loco & Allan and Allan, Alice and Alice, Stieg Larsson, Lyndon, Qualified Princess (Feeble excuse is me i is afraid.....and the van has gone.....but...sunday is all booked up, and me thinks i will be berry feeble by the end of day:)

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Sunday Sauna October 4 - Post Festival Party!

THE SAUNA PICTURE BOOK

"Hello! My name is Alice and I am coming to the sauna again."

Drink Me! Who is bringing magic potions?

COMING: Alice & Alice (CocoLoco), Zany Bizef, Mirri, Samir, Meg & Henry, Pop Culture Tart, Kali, Mac Na Alba, Doctor D., Primrose Goddess, Rastas-Man, Samantha de Jour,..

EATS: Mains by Pop Culture Tart - Green Chicken Curry - for fourteen!!!!

SALADS: The Blessed Kali

MAGIC PUDDINGS: Primrose Goddess

DRINKS: Tincture of hops (Doctor D), Grape pressings- Alice & Alice, Samantha de Jour... old fashioned grog!

KITCHEN SERF:

Sad excuses... Roman Polanski, Angela, Tigger, Alan & Alan. Qualified Princess, The White Rabbit, Greg Norman and Chris Evert....

REPORT FROM LAST WEEK'S SAUNA

Rupert reports the new snow-making machine is working!

The "Art in the Sauna" project kicked off with Prue's "Sandra in oils".

The backstage boys got sweaty in the big sauna.

Auli and Kirsti melting in sauna #3...

Pick the odd one out in Sauna #1?
Email us your answer!


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Brisbane Festival Sauna! Sept 27

The Sauna Club Coven will rock this Sunday

The Talent: Zany & Mirri, Samir, Kali, Mac nan Alba, Primrose Goddess, Rabbi Rastas...

The Main Caterers: Rabbi Rastas and the Primrose Goddess, Salad wench...Zany

The Pudding Divas: Kali & Mac nan Alba (fruit salad and deadly cream)

The Main Bar: Samir

The Kitchen Staff: Kali

The Absent: Madam Bronwyn, Ms Bec, Mma Baggage, HRH Princess S, The Danish Diva, CoCo Loco...

Last week's singing duo - The Dingo Dags

Aurelia goes cold turkey

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Post-Neurum Creek recovery sauna - September 20

The Neurum Creek muse.

The great unwashed will include: Bron, Zany, Mirri, Baggage, Graduate Princess, Wally, Samir, Kali, Kat, Mac The White, Pop Culture Tarts, Dr D...

His Nibs: Dr D

Main course: Kali & Mac's spicy, succulent Thai roast chicken pieces on a bed of Jasmine rice

Side orders: Green veg by Pop Culture Tart

Salad: Primrose & Rastas

Passionate Pudding: Puddy - Kat

A few wee drinks: Wine by Wally, Beers by Baggage

Kitchen slave: Princess (fully qualified)

Sad and sorry excuses: Temüjin (horde problems), Frida (Diego is stuck in his plaster), Trotsky (Natalia has a headache again), Lyndon Terracini (Festival has eaten me up)...

Whip it up in the sauna!

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Sauna Sunday September 13

I tried to be myself. The silence grew
Till I could hear the tiniest Mongol Horde
Scuffle the Gobi, a pony's felted shoe...
Then from the fiery pit that self-born bird
Arose. A rat! The unseen good-old man-
The sort of thing that always brings the house down.

The 13th of September is the day in 1165 that Ghenghis Khan (Temüjin) had his first sauna, he was only four years old. Now, we will admit it was more like a sweat lodge in a yurt. But we are not getting into a debate over technicalities. We will raise a tumbler to his memory and chanting his mantra. "We Khan do!"

The Horde: Ghenghis Khan (the twenty-third), Zany Khan, Samir Khan, Mirri Khan, Brian Khan, Desmond & Lenny Khan, Mel Khan, David Khan too...

Mongolian Feeding Frenzy: David Khan Too ( Mongolian hot pot) in Yak butter sauce. Mel's famous fermented horse-milk sorbet with Mongol custard tart ala Yurt.

Mongolian Drinks: Fermented Mares' Milk Toddy, Des (plus ales)

Mongolian Musik: Ulan Bator Ensemble Skin Drum Jam session ( with thigh bone shakers) ~ Brian and the hordettes

Cleaning: Usual Slave

Not here because of some lame excuse: Ghengis Khan's mother, Dot. Keith MacKhan, Kali Khan & Angel Khan -- the Neurum Creek Horde. It is with the deepest regret that Rastas Khan and Primrose Khan cannot attend due to a prior commitment taming the hoards of Neurumland. The pillaging, plundering and molestation of the willing populous will leave us in catatonic state only to be soothed by alcohol....

Sauna training class in water application.

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Sauna Report and photographs

Coco Loco will perform at theBrisbane Festival
Alice & Alice Bus Tour, Mafia Wedding, The Best
Thing, The Mad & Ugly Show

The Sunday Sauna was huge. Thankfully the main course (a superb pork and roast spuds by Madam Baggage) was amply supported by a variety of vegetable and salad dishes. Pop Culture Tart provided a wicked apple tart.

Sarah (Sunas) & Trevor (Coco Loco)

The wines and ales were flowing and to round off the night, half of Sunas, Saint Paul and Saintly Sister Sarah, performed songs and tunes to the delight of the sensually satiated sauna coven.

Saintly Sister Sarah from Sunas

Despite their jet lag, CoCo Loco from the UK arrived and melted into the general madness with superb ease. We hope they will return again.

Coco Loco Trevor (left), Zany, Marina and Coco Loco Helen.

Next Sunday's sauna will be a smallish one as a lot of the coven are heading to Neurem Creek for the festival. Please let us know early if you intend to attend (so to speak).

You can catch Coco Loco at the Brisbane Festival and at the Woodford Festival. Between those two gigs they will be touring in Australia. Sunas is off to wow the Poms...

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Hairy Pagan Blokes' Sauna Sunday* (Women allowed)

This week's sauna commemorates the tragic Pagan loss in the the Battle of the Frigidus, (also called the Battle of the Frigid River,) was fought between September 5–6 394, between the army of the Eastern Emperor Theodosius I and the army of Western Roman ruler Eugenius.

The Battle of the Frigidus

The unfortunate defeat of Eugenius and his commander, the Frankish magister militum Arbogast, (you have gotta luv a bloke with the name Arboghast) put the whole empire back in the hands of a single emperor for the last time in Roman history. Most significantly, the battle was the last attempt to contest the Christianization of the empire; its outcome decided the fate of Christianity in the western Empire.

Hairy Blokes what is turnin' up - an' wimin: Martin (Hairyman) Pearson, Maid Marina, Mac nan Alba, Ratsarse, Samir, Zany, Doc Dave, PopCulture Tart (oh dear, I just waxed!), Baggage, The very un-hairy Elegant Duchess, Shiva, Mr Primrose, Saintly Sister Sarah, Saint Paul... PLUS!!! Possible first Australian appearance nude of CocoLoco! (if they get over jet lag)... and Kali! UPDATE>>> Coco Loco have confirmed they will be present. Yay!

Nibble on this:

Blokes Main Nosh: Oiled loin of Jackman (with nuts) a la Baggage (assisted by Doc D with roast spuds)

Hairy sides (2 contributions please - big crowd): Kali & Mac, also Maid Marina and Hairyman Pearson will contribute a side

Salad: You must be joking, blokes don't eat rabbit food. Zany will make hampster food

Blokes Pudding: (Yeah? If we want cream we'll bloody well have it, right?) PopCulture Tart will make the pear tart Zany likes, because she's good to us

Booze: Lots. Wine - The Duchess Beer: Mr Primrose an' d Ratsarse (good name for a duo?)

Musik: What do you call half a sunas? Sunas Possible? Anyway musickish contribution will be from Saint Paul and Saintly Sister Sarah.

Kitchen Chick:

Those too chicken to show up: Magick Hans, Balinese Tommo, Vestal Urgin, ...

Frankish magister militum, Arbogast

*Hairy Blokes mums and gurlfrends is all welkome, right? Can't say fairer than that.

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Sunday Sauna Sisterhood - August 30

This Sunday sees the 12th anniversary

of the founding of the Sauna Sisterhood.

The coven welcomes back to the bosom

of the coven,all those who have lapsed

or strayed from the path.

The coven convenes at 6.30 for a hands on experience!

Who is coming? Sister Sam, Sister Suzanna, Sister John, Sister Sandy, Sister Magick Hands, Sister Rastas, Sister Primrose Goddess, Sister Kali, Sister Dave, Sister PopCulture Tart, and Sister Nic ...

Sisterly Sustenance: Sister Rastas, Sister Primrose Goddess, Sister Dave (bringing Sisterly Sheep as scrumptious companion)

Sisterly Seconds: Sister Sam

Sisterly Sides: Sister Kali

Sisterly Sips: Sister Magick Hands

Sisterly Scrubber-Slave: Sister Sandra

Sisterly Songs: Sister John & Sister Nic

Sisterly Sorries: Sister Khumari is just back from silently hiking the Larapinta Trail and she, too, is sorry - it's just too far to walk even to The Sauna after all that..., Sister Shez is a sorry sister also.....still galavanting around on the weekend - last week she made it to Bribie..this week going south, and bets are out that she may not get past Runaway Bay....after which her sorry arse will be in Crows Nest for the next weekend, then Neurum creek is up for grabs......sorry sisters:), Sister Rebecca in Scotland, Sister Sarah in a trance, Sister Tom, Sister Helen, Sister Daphne, Sister Caro, Sister Sandra, Sister Marie still locked in Kiwiland, Sister Lib, Sister Keith.... all of whom also sent heartfelt sorrows at being absent.

Eleven will be roasting, Ten will be feasting.

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Zany on Youtube!

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Sunday Sauna - August 23

Caption competition. Please email your entry...(click to enlarge image)

Entries to date:

Have you seen my car keys ?

Did I leave my watch in there ?

Oi, that’s my towel !

Keen to make a good impression on their first date, Dennis started with a gentle flogging with a damp flannel. (The Winner!!!)

After a prolonged and painful experience, Hermione was keen to demonstrate the success of her new hair removal gadget.

Vulcan was pleased to see that the bite marks were fading.

Mrs Vulcan was pleased to distract her husband while Bruce hid under the bed.

When were you going to tell me about the baby?

Where did you say it came from? Down here somewhere, eh?

Trust me, I'm a doctor

Oi! Move over - you have taken all the bench

I still have that headache you know!

It was too much. The armpit odour too pungent. Mr. Vulcan's knees buckled beneath him....

This Sunday back in the year 79 – Mount Vesuvius began stirring, and it was also the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire (pictured above). Mmm... I wonder if anyone put one and one together?

This week's sauna will be in honour of Vulcan - poor chap does not get much mail these days, so come on team.. let's hear it for the firey bloke.

Who is coming? Mr & Mrs Vulcan, Zany, Samir, Miri, Mac nan Alba, Primrose Goddess, Rastas, Kali, Dr D

Who is cooking mains? Mac nan Alba (Thai curry) Kali (Rice & all things nice)

Who is cobbling together a pudding? Primrose Goddess...

Who is the ideal kitchen slave?

Who will supply drinks? Dr D (beer, wine)

Who's slacking off this week? Trainee Princess (at the royal country retreat), Roller Coaster Man (supping with the devil), Red Shoes (busy with book launches), Baggage (chasing lesser-spotted American invertebrates)

It was only after a couple of hours of being in the sauna alone that Sister Amanda realised it was Saturday, not Sunday ~ Duh!

The Coven & Sisterhood congratulate Redshoes on her entering the ranks of the published!

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Sex and the Medina?

It is hard to imagine a more peculiar pairing than the light and fluffy American TV series Sex in the City and the Kingdom of Morocco. Even harder to imagine why such a notion would come to mind. But read on and be ...er... surprised?

Well this month the sequel to Sex and the City ( the movie) is being filmed and rumour has it that as much as five weeks of the sequel's production time will be spent in Morocco. Which cast members will be part of the Morocco shoot, or why they're going there, remains a mystery.

It is also a mystery as to where in Morocco such a shoot might take place. Fez? Mmm - seems doubtful. However the hedonistic folk in Marrakech may well be able to provide just the right ambiance. The View from Fez will be happy to publish any tips, hints, sightings and (of course) your paparazzi shots!

Are they really heading to Morocco?

Speculation is rife. Katey Rich writing for the website Cinema blend.com says...

"There are some obvious explanations for what would bring the shoot to Morocco - Carrie and Big take a honeymoon there, or someone wants to adopt a kid and Morocco stands in for a war-torn African country. But while we're speculating, why not have some fun with it? Maybe someone mistakes Carrie for a legitimate journalist and sends her to cover something in a war zone. Morocco has stood in for the Middle East multiple times, like Body of Lies and Babel. Or maybe Miranda, in a fit of do-gooder-ism, goes to offer legal services to oppressed minorities or women, or Doctors Without Borders, for all I know. Or maybe Samantha moves her PR business to Dubai! Anything is possible!"


Sex and the City started life as an American cable television series, broadcast on HBO from 1998 until 2004, for a total of six seasons.

Set in New York City, the show focused on four women, three in their mid-thirties and one in her forties. The quirky drama/comedy had multiple continuing story lines and tackled socially relevant issues such as sexually transmitted diseases, safe sex, and promiscuity. It specifically examined the lives of big-city professional women in the late 1990s and how changing roles and expectations for women affected the characters.

Next came Sex and the City - the movie. The film première was in London's Leicester Square on May 28, and May 30, 2008 in the US with an unprecedented $55.7 million three-day gross. The début made Sex and the City the top-opening R-rated romantic comedy of all time.

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