December Newsletter 2020
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We wish you all a Happy Christmas and a Healthy New Year May we all meet together
again very soon. |
Dear All.
The second spike we feared is sadly happening, and of course
our priority is to keep members safe so it might be a few months into next year
before we can consider better news of any get togethers. Keep positive and look forward with optimism
to us all being back to meetings soon. We
have a very good programme ready for 2021, however I sadly think we will be
starting the year cancelling the first few speakers.
2021 Events for you to look forward to, organised by the Nook
- 3rd/4th
July. Open gardens at Clifton House, Shotesham.
- Dereham
brass band. October date TBC
- A
sunflower 🌻 Competition
- Scarecrow
Competition
Maybe we could think about the sunflower and scarecrow
Competition.
Sending
my best wishes to you all for Christmas and the New Year. Please stay safe,
healthy, and happy and hopefully we will be able to meet each other at a WI
meeting soon.
Pam.
Birthdays this
month
Happy Birthday to
Pam Lack, Ann Webster and Gail Mays
Christmas Delivery
You
will shortly (or may have already) receive a visit from one of our Committee
members. We will be delivering a little
bag of goodies. Among other things, these
include:-
·
The programme for 2021, fingers crossed that we
shall be able to enjoy some of the speakers.
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Your membership booklet, with your membership card
for 2021. You will remain a member until
April when the next year’s subscriptions will become due. I hope you can take advantage of some of the
vouchers.
·
An acorn! Before I heard of the Plant a Tree for the
Queen’s 70th Anniversary, I had already collected some of the bountiful supply
of acorns that the trees have dropped this year.
The plan is for each of you to plant your acorn in a pot of soil or compost and
then bring all the ones that have grown to a meeting next autumn to see whose has
grown the tallest. I will then collect
them and donate them to either our local Tree Warden or to Chris Skinner of
High Ash farm for planting. Unless of
course you have a garden big enough to grow an Oak tree.
·
A Raffle ticket to be drawn at Christmas,
there are 3 prizes to be won.
Greetings
from the Federation Board of Trustees.
Have you been enjoying the Federation zooms as well as the Denman
ones? Margaret did a free one where she
showed us how to make a christmas tree decorated card using tea bag
folding. No need to save your old
teabags!
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Winter by William Shakeshpeare
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When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is lipped, and ways be foul Then nightly sings the staring owl, To who, To whit; to who, a merry note While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. |
When all around the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson’s saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marion’s nose is red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl Then nightly sings the staring owl, To who To whit, to who a merry note, Wile greasy Joan doth keel the pot. |
Who
remembers when we had proper winters -
the milk on the doorstep froze in the bottle and the blue tits pecked
the foil caps?
A
Seasonal Quiz this month – which Christmas Carols do these lines come from?
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1
Thee whom heaven and earth adore 2
Wings your flight o’er all the earth 3
Bring me pine logs hither 4
When we had gone astray 5
We are your neighbours children... |
6
For to do us sinners good. 7
I love thee lord Jesus 8
And still their heavenly music floats 9
With the poor and mean and lowly 10
Is born of David’s line |
Answers
to last month’s puzzles.
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64 SOAC = Squares on
a chessboard. 12 DOC = Days of Christmas 3CITF = Coins in the
fountain 88=TFL = Two Fat
Ladies 10GBHOTW = Green
Bottles Hanging on the Wall 3WM = Wise Men 90DIARA = Degrees in
a Right Angle |
TTT= 9 = Three times
three 1 PIAPT = Partridge
in a Pear Tree 57 HV = Heinz
Varieties 5 GR = Gold Rings 29DIFIALY = Days in
February in a Leap Year 16 OIAP = Ounces in a
Pound 7 DS = Deadly Sins |
39 = S Steps 2 GOV = Gentlemen of Verona 11 LAL = Lords a
Leaping TTT=100 = Ten Times
Ten 13= BD = Bakers Dozen 60 MIAH = Minutes in
an hour |
