Poringland Newsletter September 2021
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Dear all Thank you all for coming to
Dunston Hall on August 18th to celebrate Poringland’s 100+ birthday, I do
hope you all enjoyed yourself as much as I did. Lovely to see some members dancing to the
excellent Jazz Quartet Lesley had arranged. This will be my last
newsletter I write, if Covid does not change our plans we will be going to
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on September 10th for one month to visit our son, this
will be a magical experience as we will be meeting our new daughter-in-law
Aichurok in person and 6 month old granddaughter Olivia. After much consideration I have decided to step down from the committee. |
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I Sincerely thank every member for your help and support
that has always been available to me when required and I will step down with
lots of lovely memories. I became
President in 2010 with one year off in 2013 and I feel I have been privileged
to stay this long, but the time has come for someone with new ideas to take you
all forward. Please consider going on to
the Committee, more members on it would be great and new ideas and help would
be gratefully appreciated and after 15 years on the committee I can prove it
can be a very worthwhile experience
September’s meeting.
At last we are all be able to be back together again in the
community centre. With a talk from our old friend Cindy Brookes and after
the talk Cindy will pass a multiple choice answer sheet to everyone to see how
many points we would have scored if we had applied to become a British Citizens.
Once again many thanks for all your support and kindness and
everyone’s eagerness to help out whenever I have asked for it.
Take care and I will see everyone at the AGM in November.
Pam.
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What we did in August (apart from our celebrations)
We held darts evenings and 10pin bowling sessions, and on11th August, members met under the tree at the front of the Community Centre. It was one of the warmer days so we just had a relaxing time instead of walking. We also had our monthly tea afternoon when 10 members had another good old natter over a cuppa in the Royal Oak.
Local Forthcoming events
· Darts evenings at the Oak 7.30pm first and third Tuesdays, next meeting 21 September, all welcome.
· Gym restarts on Thursday afternoon 9 September at Chandler road new members welcome.
· Tuesday 21st September walk and lunch – meet at 11am at Aldiss Farm shop, Bergate Lane. Names to Lesley please
· Singalong session Thursday morning 16 September 10.30am at the home of Pam Lack Hillcrest on the Bungay road. Please let Pam or Lesley know if you would like to attend.
· Next tea/coffee afternoon at the Oak, Wednesday 29 September 2pm.
Macmillan Coffee
Event. Friday 24th September in the Poringland Oak from 12noon.
Contribution of cake, scones savouries etc welcomed. Contact Zelia on01508
550488 or 07955 834106.
Birthdays for September
Happy Birthday to Veronica and Me!
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Jumble Sale – Saturday 23rd October 10 -12am. Please bring all your clear out items, clothes, bricabrac, books tombola etc. Please sign up on the board to help on the day and bring any tombola items to the October meeting. |
Federation Events
· Calendar and Diary orders, please let Hilary know if you would like either at September meeting. National Diaries £5.50, Calendar £5.
· 500 Club entries to be in by 31 October. £5 per share to be entered into Monthly prize draw.
· Another Jigsaw race Monday 12 November 12 -3.30. £8pp, includes lunch of a simple hot meal and dessert, served at 12.15pm. Single entries up to teams of 4.
· Resolution Meeting Tuesday 23 November Mattishall Village Hall. 10am -12.30 £6. Discussion of shortlisted resolutions to go to Annual General Meeting in Liverpool on 11June 2022
· Nosh and Natter – now booking lunches for 6 November £12 (Burgundy Chicken followed by sticky toffee pud, and 3 December £15 (full Christmas dinner). - Numbers restricted so we may have to ballot.
For further information check noticeboard, speak to Lesley or email Helen at the office on admin@norfolkwi.org.uk
Our own ‘Jazz Band’ playing at our Centenary+1 Celebrations.
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During lockdowns, I have been reading the old WI minute books, refurbishing where pages had been stuck in with sellotape, and typing them up. I found that in the early days they often held social evenings with music by the ‘Howe Jazz Band’. I chose a jazz band to entertain us at our centenary in memory of those early days. They even played some of the tunes that were on the programme all those years ago. You will probably be relieved that I didn’t ask you to do a party piece or play musical chairs or other silly games, which were also part of the proceedings in the 1920s. |
Last month we visited the
Harnser wood at Elsing, where a new plaque was installed, for a belated 20th
Anniversary rededication. Mr Doubleday,
a local arborealist is forming a ‘friends of the wood’ and he gave us a talk
about trees and how a wood needs to be maintained rather than just left to its
own devices. He gave this quotation:
‘Those who planteth trees are servants of
God.
They provide a kindness for many generations and faces that they have not seen shall Bless them.
With that in mind, please bring any little oak trees that you have grown to the next meeting so that we can measure the tallest, and I will arrange to take some to High Ash Farm and some to our Tree warden for planting.
Rhyme Time quiz. Answers – simple eh?
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1a what an elephant has. Trunk 1b Sailors sleep on one. Bunk 2a A Salmon A Fish 2b A Bowl A Dish 3a A ruler A King 3b A Gold band A Ring 4a The head of a City Council Mayor 4b A strata of rock. Layer 5a a digit Finger 5b to hang around Linger 6a Part of the hands Palms 6b a book of the Bible Psalms |
7a Hole in rock Cave 7b Rescue Save 8a Elizabeth 1 was ? a Virgin 8b A fish Sturgeon 9a Classical composer Schumann 9b We are all Human 10a a nomad Rover 10b an English Port Dover 11a Fat school boy Billy Bunter 11b Prowling lion Fierce Hunter 12a Hot weather cooler electric Fan 12b Comic book character Desperate Dan |
