Last month we were very lucky to have Judge Barbara Mensah as our speaker, who was the first circuit judge of African origin when she was appointed to the South Eastern circuit in December 2005. A copy of the minutes from the last meeting is attached.
Thanks to everyone who volunteered to bake for this month’s Silver Club, which is taking place this Tuesday, 1 Julyduring the day at our ‘home’ – The Hollywood Arms. If you’ve got some time over the next day or so and would like to practice your baking skills ahead of Parson’s Green Fair, then please drop off your cakes at the bar in the pub and let them know that they are for Silver Club. Having helped set up this monthly meeting for elderly local residents, we try and support it by providing home baked cakes.
Also taking place on Tuesday, 1 July is our monthly Book club meeting. Taking place on at 7.30pm, we will discussingGilead by Marilynne Robinson. Please let us know if you will be attending so that we can book a table in The Hollywood Arms.
Parson’s Green Fair, our single biggest annual fundraising, is taking place on Saturday, 5 July. Thanks to everyone who has volunteered to bake cakes and savouries or help man our stall. It’s not too late to get involved. I will send out a separate mailer with full details about this shortly.
We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on Monday, 7 July at 7.30pm at The Hollywood Arms. Our speaker will be Michael Perry, the Planthunter, a new breed of gardener. His journey in his own words:
My gardening journey started when I was a mere toddler, shadowing my grandparents as they reared exhibition quality chrysanthemums and dahlias in their super long greenhouses. I was hooked from a young age, and soon my flower patch in my parents garden became the whole garden and, at 14, a small mail order herb nursery! Throughout school, I naturally kept my gardening passion secret, in my desperate attempts to stay a trendy teenager (it never worked!) The careers advisor was never any help, but I was pleased they suggested horticultural college, and I joined a National Diploma in horticulture after school finished. Now, I couldn’t reverse a tractor for toffee, and always got soaked by the hose in the sports turf class, BUT plant ident classes and garden design and care seemed my forte!
After entering a competition to design a garden at mail order plant company, Thompson & Morgan, I wrote in asking for a job, and was taken on as a sort-of apprentice. I was helping source new products for the seed catalogue, and soon began working on the plant catalogues too. I had an eye for unique plants; whether they were brand new, or finding ways to re-discover those plants which performed, but gardeners had forgotten.
Further details about Michael can be found here.
We have just been told about a show that may be of interest – THEN by Yve Blake & Co.
Yve is a vibrant female theatre maker and she will be performing her latest show THEN at Soho Theatre, is July for one week only (8-13th July). Yve invited 5-95 year olds from all over the world to submit stories about themselves at WhoWhereWe.com. Interested in the way that people choose to ‘write their own histories’, the website encourages people to respond with memories of who they used to be.
The show takes the audience on a journey through those hazy memories of childhood, teenage years, middle and old age. Heart warming and hilarious in equal parts, it explores relationships, those funny stories that ‘could only happen to you’ but in fact are universal, and celebrates who we were and who we want to be.