Hello Ladies,
It was truly heart-warming to see so many of you who turned up to our Annual Meeting last Thursday. I’m sorry that I wasn’t on best form due to my little accident just before the meeting but I think that all went well judging by the positive feedback I received and all the empty plates! For those of you who were unable to attend, I’ve attached the President’s and the Secretary’s reports to the e.mail.
I hope you’ve all had a good weekend and special Mother’s Day today.
THANK YOU
• To the Committee for presenting individual reports and organising the refreshments and sale table.
• To Carol for collecting the Pizzas and providing the salad.
• To Lindsay for reading Sarah’s report and organising the Bingo.
• To Jackie for organising the team for Quiz Night at Seasons.
• To Lindsay for organising Afternoon Tea yesterday.
• To Gina for organising ‘Abba Forever’ tickets.
• To Anita for sourcing so many brilliant items for the sale table and raffle.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
March sees several of our members celebrating their birthdays. As well as all the ladies mentioned in my last update, one of our new members, Kim has a birthday on 22nd March. Welcome and Happy Birthday, Kim!
SALE TABLE
I’m delighted to report that the Sale Table initiative has been really successful and we will continue to run the sale table each meeting. In future, would you please remove the sale ticket and give to Penny so that she can keep track of what’s been sold? This month, the sale table raised an amazing £79.50 for our funds!
GENERAL INFORMATION
1) A reminder that subs for next year are due by 1st April. There will be no increase this year as the Committee decided that our funds would absorb the £2 increase imposed by NFWI. Therefore, £44.00 is payable by BACs if possible or by cheque “Aldwick Revival WI, Sort Code: 60-03-08, Acc. No. 74259172.”
If you are not intending to re-join, would you please let your Hub Leader know so that our records can be amended (I hope this won’t apply to many of you).
2) The April meeting will be the last chance for you to bring your free prize draw ticket from the 2023 Membership Booklet, for more chances to win £500 for our WI.
THEATRE GROUP FEEDBACK
We all had the most brilliant time at ABBA FOREVER last evening, the tribute band was fantastic and by the end some of us were up bopping and everyone was singing along. I hadn’t realised that the diehard fans would be turning up in their finest glam rock, or I’d have dug out my velvet bell bottoms too! It was all great fun, they really were a phenomenal game changer for pop music in the seventies.
Speaking of seventies icons, I shall bring with me to the next meeting sign-up sheets for ‘Rock Follies’ at Chichester and would implore anyone signing up to PLEASE add their contact details as requested!
Meanwhile, I’ll have a look at possible dates and select one because as it will be summer, I’m thinking an evening performance might make another great night out.
Whilst at The Regis Centre I had a look at the exhibition of the plans for redevelopment and would urge anyone who’s interested in what happens along Bognor seafront to do the same. The new building looks “new Art Deco”, so the experts on hand called it, (I thought Odeon cinema) and will have much more performance, technical storage and relaxation space, although sadly only thirty or so more seats in the new auditorium, albeit with improved raking and legroom, not before time! He said they were aiming to close around November this year, should planning permission be granted, and reopen mid 2025, so the sooner the better I reckon.
Also, the sign-up period for the matinee performance of ‘Anything Goes’ on Saturday, 20th May, is next Sunday, 26 March, as even then I think tickets might be selling well, please contact me, Gina, at my email address on the newsletter.
Gina
FASCINATING FACTS
Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.
When a person dies hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
If you stop getting thirsty , you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals. Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song Auld Lang Syne is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent. Drinking a glass of water before you eat may help digestion and curb appetite.
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450F.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Warner Communications paid 28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday, which was written in 1935!
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armour raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed. Strawberries and cashews are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters. Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
And last but not least.....
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
FINALLY...
My next update will be on Sunday, 9th April, after our next Committee meeting. In the meantime, I hope to see some of you at some of the sub-group events. Please see Programme of Events below and don’t hesitate to let me or your Hub leader know of any ideas you may have for future activities or speakers.
Tomorrow’s Spilling the Beans will be held at ‘Delicious’, London Road, as Emily at The Aldwick Deli is having a few days off.
Have a good Easter everyone.
Aileen x
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