Category: Botesdale Indoor Meeting

At our March meeting we had a talk by Annie Chapman from the Pink Ladies Tractor Run. Annie began by telling us that her second car was a Morris Minor and she had had lots of them over the years. She started her talk by passing round an Olympic Torch that she had carried in […]

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We had a really good turn out at this meeting with a record 37 members attending. Firstly we presented a cheque to Peter Lawrence from The National Coastwatch Institution for our fundraising total of £600 that we had raised over the past year. Peter told us that the money would go towards the day to […]

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Twenty-three members attended our Christmas Buffet at Parkview Chapel. We had two tables laden with plates of food that members had brought for us to enjoy. Even though Jacky and Brian couldn’t be at the meeting they very kindly sent some Mulled wine. While we were eating Tricia had brought a quiz for members to […]

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We had a talk on our charity for this year – The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI), by Peter Lawrence. Peter’s wife Linda got involved with the National Coastwatch about 10 years ago and is now a trustee and station manager around the East Coast. Peter’s talk entitled ‘Eyes along the Coast’ (which is the NCI’s […]

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We had a good turn out of members despite the very wet weather and floods in Norfolk and Suffolk. We had invited Hilary and Valerie from Upbeat to collect our cheque for our charity amount we raised this year. They were both surprised at how much we had raised. A very impressive £600. Hilary is […]

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We had an excellent turn out of members for our Buffet and unfortunately a lot of members couldn’t make it due to illness. There was a lovely variety of food and the tables were laden with platefuls. We started off with a quiz brought along by Jacky and Brian and we tried to find the […]

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October saw us back at our indoor meeting venue at Parkview Chapel, Botesdale where we had invited along Sheila Jeffery from Marie Curie to give us a talk. At the MMOC National Rally this year we had sold some of our charity squares to raise money for the MMOC’s chosen charity Marie Curie. To see […]

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Our usual meeting would have been on 19th March, but this year it fell on Mother’s Day, so we took the decision to bring the meeting forward by one week. We had a good turn out of members and we discussed what was going to happen over the summer with our events and members added […]

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