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Hello to all our friends far and wide, we
wish you all the best for the New Year.
Southampton Branch is doing very well and
August saw us at the Eastleigh Carnival. Audrey, Hazel and Penny work very
hard to get our table up and running. Sadly, Audrey is retiring from
organising this event so we are looking for another hard-worker to take over
to collect and store the items that we gather during the year. Many thanks
to Audrey for all her hard work these past years.
September we went off to Weymouth to our Area
Reunion. It was a great day with the weather being very good. We were made
very welcome and Southampton did a good job of trying to take all the raffle
prizes home. The following photographs show us enjoying ourselves.
Our branch meetings are well attended and the
guests that we have are really great. Penny’s quiz is a yearly delight with
just about everyone taking part. Barbara Bennett’s brother-in-law Ron
brought in his replica of the Enigma machine and gave us a detailed account
of it. This was really nostalgic especially for Ruth Baxter as she served at
Bletchley and could show us the type of work she did.
October was our AGM and the members must like
us because they voted for us to carry on. We also have an American supper at
the October meeting which goes down very well. November we decided to have a
fish and chip evening which was a first. We have a chippy just around the
corner and we will be repeating this very soon. The members also give us
plenty of ideas for trips and guests for next year.
I would just like to thank all our members
for the things they do to make my life easier e.g. helping to tidy the room
at the end of a branch night, enjoying the events and making an effort to go
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