Few of us can aspire to celebrate our 100th birthday with the innate charm and wisdom unique to Miss Dorothy Girling - let alone receive a special card from the Queen and have the village bells ringing in our honour!! Dorothy is a perfect ambassadress for our W.I., respected and fondly welcomed at all our meetings. She held 'Open House' all day on Wednesday 17th April at her home and we, in turn, will celebrate her one hundredth birthday at our meeting on Wednesday 15th May in The Church Rooms.

Despite the fact that many of us were familiar with the House of Commons, having an official Guide to take us around the Parliament Buildings was most instructive and we much enjoyed the coach trip there in April. This was followed next day by a presentation of the History of Masquerade and Venetian Masks given by Mrs Janet Steel. Again, although many of us felt we knew Venice, few had previously been aware of the varied and wondrous masks and disguises adopted for the Annual Masquerade interwoven with local history. I think we saw Venice for the first time and enjoyed our unusual meeting!

'Resolutions' will be discussed at our meeting on Wednesday 15th May and, as always, those non-members interested in joining us are welcome to come along at 7.30pm to the Church Rooms on the third Wednesday of each month.

Peta McCurley