Hello friends
A very happy new year to you all.
Next Meeting Thursday the 11th
We have a bit of a treat for you this month as Mark Francis, a Sewing Bee quarter finalist, is coming all the way from the Midlands to tell us his story. Can’t wait to hear all the back stage goss and find out whether Esme is as formidable as she seems. He’s also very excited to be judging our makeover challenge garments from a couple of months ago! I’m sure he’ll be hugely impressed (oh dear, my tongue seems to have got firmly stuck in my cheek).
Unwanted Christmas Gifts Auction
Did you have to feign enthusiasm as you opened another peculiar offering from your great aunt Mabel? Just got too many diamonds and need to offload a few? Bring any unwanted gifts along on Thursday and I’ll auction them off to the highest bidder to raise funds for Trinity. I genuinely have a friend whose mother had just bought a new loo seat so she gave her daughter the old one, all wrapped up for Christmas. Not a joke either – she saw that her daughter’s uni house had a broken loo seat so thought it would be a good gift. Please set the bar slightly higher than that!
Other things to bring
Don’t forget that donations for the raffle, stuff for the swapsie table, and donations for the food bank are all most welcome.
Next month February 8th
We are lucky to have secured Lucy Hodges to come and share her inspirational story. Lucy is an award-winning world champion sailor, mentor and disability sports ambassador. She is one of the UK’s most successful disabled sailors, being 3 times Blind Match Racing World Champion and two times World Blind Fleet Racing Champion. She has also been awarded an MBE for the work she does with Blind Sailing UK. Should be a really interesting evening.
So looking forward to catching up with you all.
Much love
Vanessa
