Another fascinating talk with slides last night from Robert Whitehead, guiding us along part two of Bradford's Millennium Way.  The Millennium Way goes through such a diverse section of scenery and buildings; all with a different tale to tell.

A RUMMAGE IN GRANNY'S DRAWERS. 

We celebrated our 50th birthday last Monday with a party. Unfortunately because of the freezing temperatures several of our members weren't able to get there and they missed out on a really good celebration. We had nibbles, bubbly, quizzes, entertainment in the form of singing by some of the committee with a bit of drama thrown in! And a birthday party isn't complete without a cake (which was made and iced by two of our members) with candles which were blown out by two founding members of Harden WI - Jean and Janet. We then surprised them with a presentation to commemorate their 50 years membership. Plenty of photographs were taken and as soon as I get them I'll post them on the website. 

This photo has recently come into my possession of our President, Gaye, standing proudly with the gold chocolate medal she was awarded at our Annual Meeting in December!! And very well deserved it is too. The amount of work she puts in to make sure everything runs smoothly is unbelievable!!

Yesterday we were treated to another fascinating talk with slides from Robert Whitehead, this time on part of the Millennium Way.  As this 45 mile walk passes through Harden we found it particularly interesting and discovered many things about our local area that none of us were aware of.  He ended the talk on Keighley Moor and we are now going to have to wait until next June when he returns to tell us about the second part which culminates where it began at Shipley Glen.

Unfortunately, I was away for the October meeting when Tricia Atkinson returned to talk about Maud Lewis.  But from talking to others who were there I understand that, as always, she gave a really interesting talk with slides about the amazing life of Maud Lewis who was born in Canada in the early 20th century severely disabled and how she overcame all obstacles.

Tricia has a long list of subjects about which she talks so I'm sure we'll be inviting her back again.

We had our annual get together this month with Bardsey cum Rigton WI and we had a lovely time meeting them all again.  We provided a supper of Coronation Chicken with salads followed by fruit cake with Wensleydale cheese which gave us plenty of time for chatting! 
This was followed by our speaker, Tony Cleaver who gave us a hilarious talk entitled "From Karaoke to Cabaret" where he told us all about his experiences singing on the "stage".  He soon had us all joining in with the well known songs.