We had enjoyed our Christmas
meal in early December at the Mendip Inn and Christmas was still on our minds
with reports of 8 YMCA shoe boxes having been delivered to the ACM in Taunton and
still more donations arriving for the Food Bank at the December meeting. However
we were looking at social occasions ahead too with bookings being taken for a
morning outing on Monday 17th February to Camerton Hall Gardens to
see the snowdrops. This would cost £8.50, tea and cake available for an extra
£1.50.
We are also working towards
the choice of next year’s Resolutions. The list to make our initial choices
from is available in the current copy of WI Life and Mary asked members to have
a look at this with a view to discussing our preferences at the January meeting
when there would be a few other things to remember. Our subs for the year will
be due, £43 this time and Caroline mentioned we can pay by bank transfer if we
prefer, details will be sent to members. We need to bring a small prize for the
raffle and finally for January don’t forget we have the Leigh WI birthday party
on Saturday 18th in the Memorial Hall from 12.30, bring a plate of food to
share and come and enjoy a chat and a film, which members voted they would like
for the entertainment.
Our entertainment for the
meeting was in two sections. Firstly the stage was set up with a table full of
cake ingredients and Caroline and Jo proceeded to make a cake pantomime style.
Mary read out the recipe which included several instructions to “test the vodka
to make sure it was all right” with the predictable results! Very funny, maybe
they should join an amateur pantomime group next year.
The main entertainment was a
talk from author Barbara Spencer. She had led a very interesting life living in
many different places, initially sparked off by following the West Indian
cricket team. She had written many books for children and given talks in
schools on them but now in semi-retirement had started writing for adults.
