In January we were
celebrating our Institute’s 70th birthday with cake at the monthly
meeting and a skittles social evening planned for Friday 18th. There
were positive reports of the recent coffee morning in the Hall and First Friday
lunch in the Bell and we heard from one of our members how much she had enjoyed
the WI carol service in Wells Cathedral. The new programme cards were given out
and it was pointed out no outings were listed but any ideas through the year
for these would be very welcome. The voting slips for the Resolutions were
collected plus the yearly subscriptions and we were reminded to bring along a
raffle prize if we had not already done so. Jo reported from the fete committee
that the Saturday would go ahead with stalls etc much as in previous years and
there would also be barn dance on the Friday before. There was a suggestion
that the WI sell strawberries and cream rather than Pimms/Mocktails as part of
our contribution which was agreed by members.
We then had a very
interesting and detailed talk on climate change and global warming from Phil
Gulvin. He studied earth science many years ago and reverted to this in recent
times to give lectures to OU students after many years as a vicar. It became
clear how difficult the science of predicting climate change is as so many
factors can affect it although it seems generally agreed that one, global
warming, needs addressing and we can all do a little to help with this.
Our meeting on 11th
February at 7.30pm will include a talk called “My Life as a Gardener” from
Fiona Blackmore who works in a local plant nursery.
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