MEOPHAM & NURSTEAD WOMEN'S INSTITUTE

In November we held our AGM reviewing the year's activities and finances. Our most enterprising venture was the link we have made with West Bay WI in East Kent. We hope to make a return visit to them in the spring.

The committee was re-elected en bloc with the welcome addition of Mrs Winifred Hughes. Business completed, we relaxed and chatted over a cup of tea. We also attempted a competition "When we were very young". Members had brought photographs of themselves as babies or children and we had to guess their identity. It was good fun but extraordinarily difficult, the winning score being seven out of 17.

Continuing the nostalgic theme, Barbara Knight read to us from the record of the AGM on 1942. How those ladies worked! We were put to shame as we heard of them digging for victory, knitting for the forces, glove making and making hundreds of pounds of jam amongst other energetic war efforts. "Ah well!" we sighed, "It was wartime and they were much younger than us". Suddenly it was revealed that Lilian Brett could remember all this! she had been a member for 62 years. What an achievement and still very active for us now.

At our January meeting on Tuesday, January 14 at 2pm in Meopham Village Hall, the speaker will be Graham Johnson on "The River Medway, part 2". Visitors will be very welcome.