Since the magazine last came
out Christmas has been and gone of course. Before that at our December meeting
we made some of our own cards from the wide variety of materials that had been
assembled for us with varying but overall very good results.
In January subs of £39 were
due and Mary had once again produced some attractive programmes with our plans
for the meetings in the year ahead. In addition to these we had several events
to look forward to. There was the Denman fundraiser breakfast arranged by
Barbara on Friday 13th January and later in the month the Birthday
Party tea on the 29th. Looking
ahead to March there was the Roadshow on the 13th at Beckington,
final numbers for this to be taken at the February meeting and Barbara encouraged
us to attend this if possible as it was in our area for once. We were also
thinking about the fete in June as we no longer have a representative for that
committee. Barbara emphasized how much we rely on the fete for fundraising and
urged members to consider volunteering to take this job on. We also need
someone to take charge of the raffle prizes.
Our speaker, Jane Norris,
had worked as a nurse/midwife for many years. She had come from a family of
midwives and always knew it was the career she wanted. However she preferred
not to stay in one job or place for too long and had spent time in various
areas of the UK, the Navy and, definitely the most interesting location for us,
in the Labrador region of Canada. This was extremely remote with thick snow in
winter, generally difficult and unpleasant living conditions and populated by very
poor underprivileged people in small villages, so Jane and her colleagues were
performing a vital service.
Our February meeting at 7.30
on Monday 13th will include a talk on Frome FM radio.
