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Women’s Institute July meeting.We had almost a full house in July with 8 visitors and 3 member’s guests. Everyone had come along to a talk on the growing and care of Fuchsias which was given by Frank Lambert, accompanied by his wife who said that she doesn’t see much of him when he is busy working in his greenhouses. Frank has an absolute passion for the flowers and grows his blooms for display and has won an extraordinary amount of cups and rosettes, including the Best in Show at this year’s Norfolk Show. He had brought along a lot of his “plants” and one corner of the hall was filled with pots of them.He told us that there are ten and a half different sorts registered in the UK and showed slides of those in his garden and his prize-winning entries. Some of them were enormous, like bushes, with hundreds of blooms on. He demonstrated how to cut back for better growth the following year. He then invited questions regarding growing and caring for them. Afterwards he was thanked by Olive Gibson and given a hearty round of applause for his achievements. Frank went on to judge the competition which was for 3 plants from our gardens and it was won by Liz Dorsett, Jill Betz and Sandy Blackman.One of my favourites was a large yellow lily submitted by Olive with at least 4 blooms on the head, beautiful.Jill was given a posy for her birthday which is next month but we don’t have a meeting in August.After refreshments, Pat Hewett read out the report by Pat Briggs of Mundesley WI who was our representative at the AGM at the Royal Albert Hall. The resolution that all WI’s had voted on concerning the closure of community hospitals received 6,461 for and just 65 against. Not that it will probably make a difference but we have to let the powers that be know that we are strongly against any closures. There is no meeting in August but when we resume on September 12th at 7.30 pm the guest speaker will be Jeanne Heal on the subject of “caring for the carers”. Geraldine761528
YOUTH COMMITTEE A newly formed group of active young people will be meeting to discuss initiatives that they would like to see implemented in Roughton. This group is formed in response to claims that Roughton offers next to nothing for young people (12-18) and the fact that there is a significant Fund which assists this age-group. The Norfolk Youth Foundation is administered by people between 13-19, and applications for financial assistance can ONLY be made by people in this age group. (We hope to provide email/tel info once the group has had their first meeting)
Watch this space for further news, or to get involved or to have your say contact clarewilson@grove-farm.com
The defibrillator is now in situ at the Roughton Service Station, having been officially handed to the Manager of the Garage by some of the children from St Mary's School on Monday 11th December. Peter Simpson, the local Paramedic, whose original demonstration at the school inspired the young people to suggest Roughton got a machine, was in attendance. He invited Aaron Bunting, aged 6, to demonstrate the operation of the machine to interested onlookers, which the young man did with great aplomb. It really is easy enough for a six year old to operate! (though we hope we would never ask a six-year old to do it 'for real')
