Wednesday 16 November 2022

November Institute Meeting

What a marvellous meeting! Our speaker gave us a very entertaining and interesting talk about Ladies of Laughter. She read poems and writing from Dorothy Parker, Joyce Grenfell, Pam Ayres and Victoria Wood and had us all laughing, too!

The room was beautifully decorated by the flowers in the flower competition, lots of items made by the members who had attended the Dabble Day and our absolutely gorgeous Margaret Seaward Exhibition. We had a wide range of entries: cakes, fresh flowers, a golden evening stole, a photograph…. and much more as you will see in the photos. We also had a wonderfully calming Golden Breath yoga exercise from Fiona! Fantastic! Well done everyone and thank you all for making the effort to enter, you made a marvellous display. Members all voted and we had two winners: Aldene with a bejewelled Christmas tree and Trish who made a golden wreath adorned with fairy lights. The corgi, hedgehog, large golden wreath and the green background embroidery with stitching and jewellery all came in a very close second. (Sorry for the poor description, but I think you will see which one I meant!)

Plans were made for more skittles and some darts activities at the Cricket Club (with thanks to Annette and Jackie who offered to organise the darts). Fiona has kindly offered to run a yoga session for us and members are considering our options for marking the coronation in May - ideas, please?

Swimming is moving from 8.30am to 1.15 as more members felt they might come along at this time!

Craft next Wednesday is a kind of DIY wrapping session. Bring an item to wrap and some paper (the real thing or simply something to practise on). Barbara says she has a book on how to do it! If you have any expertise in this area please come and share it! We will also be making the gift bags, as requested last month.

Some of the Dabble Day creations:







Flower competition:


The Gold Margaret Seaward Cup exhibition entries: 
                                                                     Trish’s wreath

Aldene’s tree
























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