Members meeting 7th November 2017

What a treat we had at our November meeting! Ann led us admirably,  as Jan our president was away with work. After notices, we were entertained by Roger Phillips from Radio Merseyside (his talk was postponed from October as his daughter was about to give birth to his first grandchild). Roger was most entertaining and amused us with anecdotes from his lunchtime Phone-in show, as well as radio clips from a variety of sources and presenters on different radio stations. So many things can go wrong for presenters! What came through was that Roger loves his job and loves our city. And we loved his talk! Thank you Roger.

After social time, we had a lovely surprise. A group of ladies came to tell us about their Hindu festival of Light, Diwali and dance a Gujarati dance for us called the Garba. They were all dressed in the most beautiful saris in bold colours. They made two beautiful Rangoli patterns of coloured rice, flour, sand and chalk on trays, which Hindu ladies usually make at home and place on the floor by the door to welcome Lashki the goddess of wealth and prosperity into their homes. After their dance they invited ladies to join them  and learn some dance steps. We had some technical problems at first and we nearly didn't have any music - thank goodness some clever person got the music system to work!
A lovely evening all round!