Frankies Ice Cream Parlour

On a Hot sticky tar day like today an ice cream from Frankies is the ticket YUM!

If you are local or just passing through Frankies ice cream parlour will have a flavour for you. With so many to pick from with shakes, and frozen yoghurt too. My favourite is the affogato ice cream, for those days when its to hot for that coffee hit this really hits the spot. Please go and try for yourself and report back with your flavour of choice.

Frankies ice cream parlour

106 Bridge street, Bulls

Bulls

(06)3220100

It's Lick-A-Bull

JiNjA Flowers

Well its that time of year again dare I say, Yes Christmas and it is crazy busy everywhere. So why not pop in or give Jill a call at Jinja flowers and get some flowers, reefs, or centre pieces to brighten the festive mood,  She can also arrange deliveries world wide. I went in today myself to pick up some Christmas lillie's, and could not walk past some beautiful Peonies.  The house now smells amazing.

 However Jill is a very talented florist so if in need of that special bouquet whether weddings, anniversary's, or just to get out of the dog box she's your lady.

Open Mon-Sat

10am-6pm

And Sunday by appointment

Jinja Flowers

Bridge street ,Bulls

(06)3221417

The Bulls Christmas Parade

The Classic Christmas Parade

 What a year it has been for Bulls, and a christmas parade is a great way to wind up the year. Everyone did a great job, and 

people of all ages enjoyed the day.

From Town like no udder

MERRY CHRISTMAS

TO ALL, AND A

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Dr Dave Baldwin on his rounds.

Check out this link, Our local Dr Dave living the dream.

http://www.3news.co.nz/Monthly-flying-visits-for-doctor/tabid/309/articleID/236387/Default.aspx#.TuaoN531YLk.facebook

http://www.healthybastards.co.nz/home

Pharmacist marks 40 years at 'five-year' job

JONO GALUSZKA

WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ

LONG SERVICE: Graham Platt will

have owned his pharmacy in Bulls for

40 years on Tuesday. He says the

pharmaceutical trade has changed

remarkably since he started.

What was supposed to be a five-year stopover for a pharmacist has turned into 40 years of keeping Bulls residents healthy.
Graham Platt will mark 40 years as the owner-operator of Platt's Pharmacy on November 22, making him the longest-serving owner of a pharmacy in the region.
The pharmacy was established in the 1870s, and moved to Bridge St before Mr Platt bought it in 1971.
While he ran solely pharmacy services at first, he soon established a co-operative and opened a photo processing laboratory on High St, across the road from the pharmacy's current location.
The photo lab quickly turned into one of the busiest in the country, fielding customers from Taupo to Wellington, he said.
The pharmacy was also the first franchised postal outlet in the country in 1995, and was selected as the trial site for printing vehicle registrations at the same time.
Having to do a bit of everything had kept Mr Platt busy, he said, but it was part and parcel of running a pharmacy in a small town.
"Many towns of our size no longer have a pharmacy, but we are very lucky to have a large, loyal customer base."
But not all the people in the area have been good to Mr Platt. His shop has been burgled "about 40 or 50 times" over the years, he said. The most serious was an armed holdup in 1997, when he and his wife were threatened with a shotgun and a knife.
"The thing that frightened me the most was that they put the barrel on my back and were cocking the gun," Mr Platt said.
He had also had a car plough through his shop window seven years ago, and was off work for eight months in 1996 when a car ran him and his Harley Davidson motorcycle off the road, pulverising his right leg.
"It was extremely difficult, because we had to bring in people from all across the country," he said.
"There were chemists coming in all the way from Hawke's Bay."
But the pharmacy went on, with the local community keeping him going, he said.
"People were bringing in food parcels and flowers and all sorts – they were great."
Having run the pharmacy for so long, Mr Platt said he had seen generations of customers and employees come through his doors.
He had also seen a change in the attitude towards medication.
Recreational drugs when he started out were for "old Chinese men in the opium dens in Wellington".
"These days you get kids who see anything and they'll take it."
Medication mixtures were also never made on site any more, with his pill-making gear having sat idle for decades. "It's only the old pharmacy owners who will have this, as the new guys have never needed to use it."

 

- Manawatu Standard

www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/6003503/Pharmacist-marks-40-years-at-five-year-job

The Mothered Goose Cafe

The Mothered Goose is an award winning Cafe and Deli, in the old bank building smack bang central Bulls on the corner of SH1/3. And is somewhere you will often find me, more and now I have discovered their yummy warm spiced berry drink. The old bank safe is now a Dali where you will find many treasures. The food is great and the coffee 'supreme'  I highly recommend the eggs Benedict, and my mother the food critic has rated The Mothered Gooses eggs Bennie No.2 in the whole of  NZ. Now open evenings over the weekend with regular entertainment,
 and there is out door seating and parking out back. 

 Roz is available to discuss functions and catering.

Mothered Goose Cafe, Deli, Vino!

OPEN DAILY
119 Bridge St Bulls CNR SH1 & SH3 Rangitikei 4818

06 322 1330

To get your BULLS gear come into the Bulls info center or email us at bullsinfo@rangitikei.govt.nz There is a big selection of colours and sizes to suit everyone.