Zoom has helped us stay connected with all our members

I’M feeling somewhat out of practice as I’ve not had to write a report for the past nine months.

Although we obviously have been unable to hold our meetings since March, we have tried very hard to stay connected to our members.

Very early on we were introduced to the joys of Zooming, and after lots of “can’t hear you” “are you muted?” “I can hear you but I can’t see you,” we settled into a regular pattern of meetings, with lots of quizzes, talks by members and plenty of interaction.

This month we had our first official virtual speaker – Hen Johnson, telling us all about Christmas time during the Second World War.

Many of us had on our Christmas jumpers and there was a lot of tinsel on show, not to mention quite a few festive tipples.

Some members have also taken part in virtual craft classes and other meetings arranged by the county.

In a normal year we have a snow list where each person on the committee contacts other members if we have to cancel a meeting because of bad weather.

We decided to utilise this list to stay in touch, so over nine months we’ve regularly chatted, laughed and put the world to rights.

We’ve sent out a wellbeing goody bag containing essentials like wine and chocolate.

October was our birthday, so everyone received a little bag with biscuits, tea and coffee.

This week we’ve delivered Christmas bags filled with homemade crafts and treats.

It also contained a calendar for 2021, which hopefully will become fuller than this year’s.

Chris Wakeham

Woodcroft WI