Cainscross WI

WE WERE back at St Matthew’s Church Hall, Cainscross, for our early August meeting. Apologies were given by Tina Hewgill, and Pam Elliott was thanked for her lovely table flowers in oranges and white, arranged in a china cup and saucer container and adorned with blue ‘sparkles’.

Correspondence discussed included an invitation to the Autumn County Meeting for Tuesday September 29, when author Julie Summers of the Jambusters novel, on which the recent television programme ‘Home Fires’ was based, will be speaking.

Also, some members may try to attend the forthcoming ‘Raising Agents’ tour by the Mikron Theatre which is coming to Randwick Village Hall.

This is sure to be very well supported.

Val Dalby also put on display our third place prize winning entry of five very different and beautiful hand made bags, which were entered recently for the Rose Bowl Competition at Stroud Country Show.

There were five WI exhibits this year and all were real ‘works of art’ with very few points difference between each entry, so well done to Val and all the other girls who made them.

With business concluded, we settled back to enjoy George Yiend and his reading of Dylan Thomas’s ‘Under Milk Wood’.

He really set the scene for us very well, and we all agreed he must have a great memory to remember all the words the way he does.

He started with Thomas’s childhood in Wales, when it always seemed to be snowing, his early memories of ’secret societies’ with the drawing of blood or red ink, and the Saturday matinees for 3d a time.

He remembered Christmas day with the ’aunties and uncles’ and much more besides.

He was accompanied on keyboards by his wife Frances and it was a very enjoyable evening. We hope to see them again before much longer.

We ended the evening with the drawing of the raffle, refreshments and the monthly competition winners announced as:-

First - Mary Jarrett

Second- Georgina Hall

Third- Margaret Adams

For our next meeting, which takes place on Tuesday, September 1, we will welcome Mr D Cramp and his talk ‘Birds of Gloucestershire’ with the monthly competition being for ‘A picture/model of a British Bird’.

The venue as usual is St Matthew’s Church Hall and the meeting will start at 7.15pm, when visitors or new members are always willing to join us.

There are always refreshments, a raffle and sales table available and if you cannot make this date, the next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 6, when Mr Ian Thomas will talk on ‘The Branch Line to Dursley’.

I hope you can join us for a visit very soon.