Sharon King

There are so many opportunities for our members to meet up throughout the month, be it for walking, reading or eating, but we are still keen to get together at the end of the month and there was a large turn-out for this month’s meeting.  Kate Bennett began the meeting by revealing the …

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The last celebratory event on our Centenary Calendar was lunch at Esseborne Manor on 7th October.  This was a chance for our members to sit back and relax and enjoy a delicious three course meal.  Lynne Lucas, a member of the Centenary sub-Committee, had taken on the planning of the event and President …

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We started the month serving tea and cake at the fete, plenty of customers meant a lot of hard work which was well rewarded.  We also enjoyed talking to those who took an interest in our Centenary Exhibition, and were especially grateful to several visitors who helped us identify faces of past members. …

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Flushed with the success of our Centenary Tea Party we gathered back in the Village Hall later in July for our monthly meeting.  Our President gave us all a pat on the back for such a successful event and read extracts from the congratulatory thank you letters received from attendees.  Kate also reflected …

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How to celebrate our Centenary, this was the dilemma facing Aileen Catterson, Cecilia Cotton, Sue George & Sharon King (also known rather grandly as the Centenary Sub-Committee) as we met for the first time during the summer of 2016. It didn’t take long for one of the various ideas bandied around to settle …

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Thanks to the hard work of the Programme Sub-Committee we have much to look forward to in the coming year.  Kate Bennett has been busy with her paint brushes and produced a very colourful Programme for us to get all those dates marked off on the Calendar.   The topics range from the historical …

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I thought I would give you all a rest from my usual ramblings, and with a bit of arm-twisting our President Kate Bennett has allowed her quirky (as only Kate can do!) Annual Report presented at this month’s Annual Meeting to be reproduced here.   PRESIDENT’S BOARD GAME   Throw a 6 and …

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A big thank you to all of you who supported us at our recent Easter Eggstravaganza – it was a great success.  We were delighted to see so many of you and hope you all enjoyed yourselves.   The proceeds of the morning are helping us fund our Centenary Celebrations later this year. Some …

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It’s a wonder that any of our members manged to get a restful night’s sleep following our Meeting this month.  Last time Graham Birchmore visited us he was here to analyse our handwriting with surprising results.  This time he wanted to talk about Dream Interpretation. Many of us admitted to dreaming that we …

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We may not have had a speaker organised for this month’s meeting, but to make up for it our members have been doing a lot of talking throughout this month.    We chatted as we walked through wintery showers of sleet in very cold temperatures around Hatherden and Wherwell.  We did laugh, as with …

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