Following the gratifyingly large attendance at our February meeting, we felt that a larger room was required, so as you may have read above, we are now meeting in the Small Hall at the Whitehouse. A good job too- as again so many ladies came to the meeting, armed with cups & saucers, to learn from Jeanette Bell how to make gorgeous little flower arrangements in them. How simple it looked when Jeanette showed us the ropes-& how surprised we were to find that-actually-it was! Even for those of us who can destroy a beautiful bouquet in five minutes dead!  Now we all have another skill at our fingertips! What a lovely gift to be able to give a friend-or Mum with her special day coming up! Jeanette demonstrated several variations on the theme & as she worked with the flowers told us stories of her international flower arranging exploits, then presented us with  the arrangements & more bunches of flowers to add to our raffle prizes for the evening. We had more than the usual number of delighted winners! We would like to thank Jeanette for sharing her expertise with us, Glenys for running the raffle & Pauline for organising the refreshments-where would we be without those two! Each month we ask for a volunteer to provide cake for the refreshments & this month, Jacqui had offered-we would like to thank her as well. So please think about taking a turn-we don’t want the same people to bake for us every time-if we all take a turn it’s easier more friendly. If you don’t want to bake something bought would be fine! Although-well, you know-shh-we don’t want other WIs to find out about that, do we!

   We have just managed to negotiate what we hope will be a more suitable room for us to use from now on at The Whitehouse! With our growing numbers we felt our usual room was too small & hot for comfort. So Sally & Brenda, the nice ladies who run the Whitehouse, have asked the band, who are usually in the Small Hall to move their rehearsals to the Big Hall for us once a month-we would like to thank them all for their help & cooperation. To locate the Small Hall, once in the door, it’s the door on your left just a little way ahead of you-I hope we will have somebody in the corridor you will recognise-but we will put our banner up to show you the way. This is hot off the press, so I’m sure you will forgive the last minute nature of this notice.

Loraine is organising a meal out for us on Monday 17th March at 7.30pm. It will cost £29.99 for two people, to include two courses & a glass of wine. Sounds good to me-I’m going! If you are interested please collar Loraine on Tuesday-but please be warned- she will need your money along with your booking! A cheque is fine. We have had a few meals out now & we thought we’d have a change from Merit’s-good though it is. So please think about coming with us-we always seem to have a good time!