Month: January 2025

Wesley Memorial Church Party

The Stewards of Wesley Memorial Church invited us to their Annual Church Party – a joyous occasion and an opportunity to mingle with members of the congregation.

There was an icebreaker quiz – featuring pictures of church members as children, and more recent images and we were challenged to match them up.

This was followed by a ploughman’s supper with plentiful bread, cheese, salads etc, followed by deserts which had been contributed by church members. It was another chance to chat with people from the church, either renewing acquaintances or making new friends.

The evening was rounded off with a Barn Dance, where we worked off some of calories taken on due to too many tempting treats during the meal.

Burns Night

Part of Scottish cultural tradition is the celebration of the works of Robert Burns around his birthday, January 25th. We celebrated early, but enthusiastically, and in our own style.

Although some regard whisky as a an essential part of the tradition, we had IRN BRU (“It’s yer aither national drink!”).




We had the music of the pipes, using a mobile phone rather than bagpipes, but the haggis was still paraded around the room, and ‘Ode to a Haggis’ was read.

We then tucked into a tasty meal of haggis, swede and carrot, and mash (with a vegetarian haggis available)

We rounded off the evening with home made flapjacks (or Scottish shortbread if preferred)

Home made flapjacks before they were all eaten

I hope The Poet would have been proud of us!

Bingo!

What better way to start a New Year than with a game of Bingo? As we usually do members brought a selection of edible and other small treats for prizes, and we played Bingo. We start the session playing for a horizontal line, then two lines, and then a full house. The first to achieve each of these picks a prize, and if they win again later they pick a small prize, such as a small chocolate. We exchange playing boards after each Full House until the last game of the evening, which continues until everyone has won something.

Committee members had started a little earlier with a hybrid committee meeting, which enabled us to start the planning for the next sessions.