Hello friends
Lots to talk about so none of my usual opening witterings, apart to say a big thank you to Jo Cobb for organising such a fabulous meeting last month. I loved seeing your Sewing Bee style transformations. What a lot of talent we have.
Meeting Thursday June 8th.
Our June meeting has an outdoorsy, woodland theme with two speakers from Belfairs. Danielle is from Essex Wildlife and Ruth is from Forest Cloud Nature Therapy. Ruth will be telling us about ‘forest bathing’, or Shinrinyoku in Japanese, which is a mindfulness practice based around immersing yourself in nature.
Windsor Trip June 10th
The coach will be picking up from the Palace theatre at 9am and then Thames Drive at 9.15am. If you haven’t let us know so far, please will you tell us if you would like to get on at Thames Drive. We will be returning at 4.30pm. What fun!
Afternoon Tea Sunday September 17th
This is a free event for all our members and should be a lovely afternoon. There will be a sign up sheet at the meeting next week but if you won’t be at that meeting, please let us know whether or not you will be joining us for tea. Just reply to this email.
Lunch Club
Many thanks to Sam who has arranged some lovely events for us over the last year or so. Sadly Sam has decided to step down, so if anybody else would like to take up the reins we would be delighted.
Trinity Family Centre Fayre
We meet at Trinity so it’s great that we are supporting the important work they do with families and old folk. Their Summer Fayre is Monday June 12th for the oldies and Tuesday June 13th for families and they are looking for donations of raffle prizes and tombola gifts (such as small toys). These can be dropped off at our meeting. They have also asked if any of us would bake them a cake. Cakes can be delivered on the day or on Sunday 11th at 9.30-10 or 11-11.30. I know our help is making a big difference to Trinity’s work and they are very grateful.
Food bank donations are also most welcome and can be brought to any of our meetings.
Essex Federation County Annual Meeting Tuesday June 27th 2023.
Don’t forget to book for this if you’d like to join us. It’s at the Cliffs Pavilion with Gregg Wallace speaking and music from Danny Foster from The Big Soul Corporation. £20 and here’s the link for tickets www.ticketsource.co.uk/fewi
Coming up
The July meeting has an actual potter, with potters wheels and everything, giving us a go at throwing and hand building. This is something I’ve wanted to do since getting hooked on ‘Pottery Throwdown’ so I’m a bit over excited.
We don’t have a meeting in August but we will be arranging some kind of outdoor get together
Looking forward to seeing all your lovely smiley faces next week.
Much love
Vanessa
