At the last but one meeting
of the year in November we were told the 2018 programme is almost complete and
would include a good variety of speakers for us to enjoy. Two of the group
meetings would be in Leigh next year, the business one on 25th July
and the ordinary meeting on 26th September, two dates for your new
diary! Before these another diary date planned was a lunch to celebrate our 69th
birthday which would be held at Barbara Turner’s house on Saturday 3rd
February. In addition final arrangements for several forthcoming events were
made. These included making choices and payments for the Christmas meal on
Tuesday 5th December and a suggestion to consider two first Friday
lunches in December on the 1st, one in Buckland Dinham after the carol service
and for those not attending this one in Leigh as usual. Sue Rodford would check
numbers for the concert and book a table in the Bell at Buckland if relevant.
Tickets were given out for the theatre outing to the Merlin and the carol concert
in Wells.
Following the business
matters we had a simple craft session led by the owners of the Hive business in
Shepton. They started as a shoe repairers but these days hold a variety of
stock such as fabrics, wool and other craft items, have a catering side and
also run courses such as flower arranging and cake decorating. For our WI they
had cut out felt shapes of angels and Christmas stockings for us to put
together and decorate and add to the cracker supplied if we wished. The winner
of the best effort received a voucher for a free afternoon tea.
At the meeting on Monday 11th
December at 7.30pm we will have a talk entitled “Girl Cop”