FEBRUARY 2010

You never stop learning! I started this Lion’s year being told that I had to write a blog! New experience writing into the ether! Now, I am told the club is putting updates on Twitter and that my blogs will be available there. Does that make me a Twit? Anyway, the more publicity we can get the better it is for the club and the movement generally.

January’s weather came as a bit of a shock. We have been spoiled by mild winters in recent times. We had to cancel the business meeting in the first week of the month because the roads were dangerous and it transpired that the venue was inaccessible.

We rearranged the meeting for a fortnight later. By then, some of our members were away on holiday! - funny old world! We had an excellent attendance given that this was a rearranged one. We could only recall one previous occasion when weather prevented a club meeting in its 37 year history.

The club’s annual visit to the pantomime at Theatr Clwyd in Mold took place on 16th January. We have made this a regular event for the last ten years. It gives us a chance to pretend we are kids again and, importantly, it keeps us in touch with former members who regularly attend: it is good to see them and, hopefully, these occasions bring nearer the day that they will return to us, other commitments having been met.

January is a quiet month for fund raising. Perhaps it is just as well given the weather conditions. The club members deserve a rest after the busy Christmas campaigns. I checked up on the rotas and found that 23 of our 28 active members had been involved in the various collections. At least another two turned up at some stage to offer support. A President could not ask for better support.

So, now, it is back to the grindstone! The bedding plant sales will not be finished until May but the committee are now busily liasing with the nurseryman, getting the forms organised and planning distribution of the pamphlets. It might still be snowing but we have to look to the spring and the bedding plant campaign that has always got the club functioning like Captain Mainwaring’s well oiled machine in Dad’s Army!

Keep warm!

Take Care!

John Gregory