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South 16 Woodham Focus<br />
South Woodham Focus<br />
OVER TO YOU.....<br />
Thank you<br />
To the very kind and thoughtful gentleman who handed in my<br />
handbag into Asda after I left it in a trolley. I am sorry that you<br />
didn't leave your name as I would have liked to thank you<br />
personally. Thank you so very much.<br />
Josie<br />
Kind Support<br />
Just to let you know that our annual car boot sale was held last<br />
Sunday and raised over £1200 towards the upkeep of Stow<br />
Maries’ Church of St Mary & St Margaret and The Smythe Hall.<br />
Many thanks for your continuing support.<br />
Peter Taylor<br />
(for the Stow Maries Fund Raising Group)<br />
Solve the Riddle<br />
1. How many drops of wine can be put into an<br />
empty glass?<br />
2. Mrs Brown is late getting to the shops.<br />
She buys the last 5 apples in the greengrocer, but she<br />
has six children, herself and her husband to feed.<br />
How does she share the fruit equally between all the<br />
family members?<br />
3. Gwendoline tells her friends that her grandmother is<br />
only one year older than her mother.<br />
How can that be?<br />
3. The grandmother she is talking about is her father’s mother.<br />
2. She makes a fruit salad.<br />
1. One. Because after that, the glass is not empty.<br />
Millwood WI<br />
The WI for Inspiring Women<br />
Instead of our August meeting our ladies met for lunch at The Warren Golf Club. We<br />
were also joined by some members from South Hanningfield WI.<br />
We were served a delicious two course lunch in beautiful surroundings and then whilst<br />
enjoying our coffee we were given a talk by Kerry about the history of The Warren.<br />
Kerry has worked at The Warren for many years and one evening she glimpsed a small<br />
boy dressed in old fashioned clothes. When she mentioned what she had seen she was<br />
shown a photograph of a small child which was identical to the boy she had seen. He<br />
was a member of the Durham family who used to own The Warren and his name is<br />
Freddie. He has been seen many times and now has a room named after him.<br />
Kerry showed us another photograph and if you look closely you can see a ghostly<br />
figure in tudor costume. He has been seen many times but he is not a friendly ghost.<br />
They have hosted some paranormal evenings and have a video of a roaring fire in the<br />
bar area which spontaneously ignited. There were lots of doors opening and closing<br />
on there own and their equipment picked up white noice and some very cold spots<br />
especially in the banquet room. We asked the question does anyone ever spend the<br />
night at The Warren and the answer was a definite no! We were very pleased that we<br />
were there at during the day time. It was a very interesting learning about the history<br />
of The Warren and its ghosts.<br />
Our Forth Coming Events<br />
On 19th September we have a theatre trip to see Ellio Pace and his Band playing ‘The<br />
Billy Joel Song Book’ at The Palace Theatre Southend.<br />
We have a trip to see ‘Tribute Adele Song Book’ at The Civic Theatre in Chelmsford on<br />
11th October.<br />
Also at The Civic Theatre on 8th November we have a theatre trip to see ‘Les<br />
miserables’ by Chelmsford Young Gems.<br />
Our next meeting is on Wednesday 26th September at champions Manor Hall 7.30pm<br />
for 7.45pm start. Our speaker is Paul Pemberton with a talk titled ‘Fire Safety’. Our<br />
trade table will be Home Made Cakes, so don’t forget to get baking ladies. New<br />
members are always welcome.<br />
SOUTH WOODHAM<br />
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