2022
January 5th: Bring & BuyCompetition - an animal ornament won by Sue Carty |
February 2nd: Birthday lunch
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This marked the occasion of our eighty-third birthday and a lunch was held for all members at our usual meeting place: Saxon Street Methodist Church Hall. Our hard working committee produced shepherd’s pie and a fish pie with an assortment of vegetables. An array of puddings, followed by a selection of biscuits and cheeses. While digesting that we decided to hold a tea party in The Hall for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June. After routine business was dealt with we rounded off our meal with tea or coffee and excellent birthday cake. The competition for a place mat was won by
Terry Webb, second June Surrage, and third Veronica Aspland. |
March 3rd: Annual Meeting |
April 6th: speaker Alison Giles |
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Competition, a relic from the garden won by Ann Flewitt
Our 2nd March 2022 meeting saw us able to hold our Annual Meeting on the correct date, with members present. The meeting was chaired by our president, Sheila Bailey. Before we held our annual meeting Janet Whelan came on behalf of the committee organizing a Jubilee Street Party on Saturday 4th June in Wodditton to tell us their plans. Alison Giles, our proposed speaker, is now coming to our April meeting instead as time was needed to go through all the annual reports. We are now in our eighty fourth year which we all feel, after the last two years, a considerable achievement. There was a raffle and sales table. We were able to hold some of our monthly competitions and therefore able to give awards to the winners, first: Brenda Marks, second: Terry Webb and third: Sue Carty. After refreshments provided by June Surrage and Brenda Marks, and the rest of our delicious birthday cake we carried on with the rest of the meeting. Fran Saltmarsh undertook to represent us at the CFWI annual meeting on 25th April at Comberton. We discussed ideas for the Jubilee bank holiday weekend. Sheila Bailey reminded us that for our April 6th meeting Alison Giles will be talking about museums. The competition remains the same: a small flower decoration. |
Competition a small flower arrangement won by June Surrage
Our April meeting did not go quite as planned. Sadly the speaker, Alison Giles, was suffering from Covid and could not come. We decided to have our games evening instead. Subscriptions were collected in and very welcome refreshments provided by June Surrage and Brenda Marks. The competition remained the same: a small flower arrangement. First: June Surrage, second: Ann Flewitt and third: Lilian Maidman. We decided to host a jubilee tea party at Saxon Street Methodist Church Hall on Thursday 2nd June starting at 2.00 p.m. After playing bingo the meeting was closed with a reminder that the speaker at our May meeting will now be Jeanette Moser and her talk will be entitled “Everyone has a story to tell” and the competition remains the same: How many words can you get out of “Wednesday” 3 or more letters. |
May 4th: Speaker Jeanette MoserCompetition: Words made from "Wednesday" won by June Surrage
For our May meeting we were very fortunate that Jeanette Moser stepped in at the last minute to tell us about her life. Her parents were Jews and left Europe for South Africa, where she was born eighty-three years ago. She was among the first intake of women joining the police force and ended up in the Special Branch in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) . She does not have a prepared script so we could ask questions whenever we wanted which made the evening very entertaining. The competition for how many words can you make out of “Wednesday” was won by June Surrage, second Sue Carty and third Ann Flewitt. June Surrage and Brenda Marks provided welcome refreshments , Ann Flewitt ran both the raffle and Sales Table. |
June 1st: Speaker LotteCompetition: A Jubilee book mark won by Brenda Marks
Our speaker was Lotte who came to explain and practise “Laughing Yoga” with us. She emphasised how important it is for our health to laugh regularly and daily, whether we are cleaning our teeth or making a mug of coffee. We had laughing, breathing and smiling exercise – all very good fun. We needed laughing exercises to gear us up for coping with providing a Jubilee Cream Tea in Saxon Street following on from Trooping The Colour on 2nd June, ending up with a Street Party in Woodditton on Saturday 4th June. A time for older parish residents to meet up with newcomers and make new friendships. Much enjoyment all round. The speaker at our 6th July meeting will be Christine Clarke on “Face Make Up” and the competition: Make and decorate a mask. |
July 6th: Speaker Christine Clarke
March 2nd