Our December meeting put us all into the Christmas spirit with a really enjoyable crafting evening led by Sue and Tina.

Our November meeting was wonderfully uplifting as we were entertained by In Accord, an a Capella choir. They started off the evening with some lively familiar numbers like Raindrops Keep Falling and Crazy Little Thing Called Love.

Our October meeting was a fascinating evening as we were introduced to the art of disappearing fore-edge painting. Martin Frost, currently the only artist practicing this particular skill, gave us a very interesting talk about he history of decorating the fore-edge of books.

Our autumn seasons started on a high with Ben Crossland telling us all about his family business growing alstroemeria near Arundel.

We had a beautiful evening for our summer party this week, not too hot but lovely a balmy!

Frances Farrer-Brown entertained us with her excellent virtual tour of Chichester at our May meeting.

Our resolutions business was quickly done as we only needed to take a vote to support this year’s proposed campaign, Spreading the knowledge of quick first aid response and defibrillators.

Ben Pope gave us a very interesting and inspiring talk about using containers in the garden.

We welcomed Rob from Fairview Wines in Midhurst to our February meeting.

We started the year with a light hearted evening of eating and bingo.

Andy Thomas is an author and presenter specialising in unexplained mysteries and the paranormal. At our Christmas meeting he gave a fascinating talk on the origins of Christmas traditions.

Hannah and Jane led members in two crafting activities this month. With a lovely buzz of chatter and much laughter everyone settled onto two tables where they either made a clove decorated orange or two Christmas decorations made from old buttons.

One of our members, Jane, gave us a fascinating presentation on her recently completed Diploma at The Royal School of Needlework.

We started our autumn program with a very enjoyable demonstration by one of our members, Sue.

Sue very kindly offered us her garden for this year’s Summer Garden Party which made a perfect backdrop for everyone to arrive with picnic chairs and donations for a delicious shared supper.

Ian Porter came to our June meeting to present a fascinating talk about The real Mr Selfridge. It was amazing to think that his store had such an influence on the concept of the department store, sadly a fading model today.

The resolutions part of our evening was dealt with quickly with Sally explaining the resolution to provide dentistry for all. A unanimous vote agreed to support the resolution and also to give Sally a discretionary vote at the AGM.

March is AGM month so we started with the formal process of reporting the year and re-electing the president and committee.