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matter not having a speaker as all members will
want to do is chat!
I am sure on behalf of many of you I would
like to thank the organisers and helpers for all
the assistance that has been arranged for those
of us who have so benefitted from it throughout
the village. I myself am most grateful.You can
join in with the clapping on Thursdays and take
some credit too.Thank you to everyone
involved. Best wishes to all. Sheila Sparrow
Evening WI
We are also in the same situation as all clubs
and societies in the Village of not being able to
hold our monthly meetings. Never the less our
members have been busy adjusting to lockdown
in their homes. A number have been busy
sewing for the NHS making scrub bags - to
date 80+ have been delivered helped
enormously by one member contributing over
70. Some of these were delivered to our local
surgery here in Penn. Members have also
contributed to face visors by sending laminating
pouches and a few headband “ear savers” have
been made to assist mask wearers.
A weekly newsletter sent out via email and
hand delivered to the few who are not online,
has been keeping us all informed of how we are
all coping with this unusual situation. Long
promised books have been read, forgotten
started projects resurrected and numerous
squares knitted to make blankets for Kenya. All
the green fingered members have taken
advantage of the lovely spring to tend their
gardens and daily walks are being made in our
lovely woods and countryside.
Many of us very much appreciate being able
to keep in touch with family and friends across
the world via the internet and meeting the
challenge of getting to grips with the technology
available to us. We are now looking forward to
the time when we can get together again and
enjoy our meetings. We may be lucky and be
able to hold some of our usual summer
activities, walking together and having a garden
party in August as we did last year.
www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk
Village Voice June/July 2020
Regular monthly meetings usually take place
in the Village Hall on the second Thursday of
the month (except August) usually 7.45on for
8pm. We welcome visitors if you would like to
give us a try. We also have regular sub groups of
knitting and nattering, book club and chomp
and chattering in local restaurants. All a great
way of making new friendships. We hope that
these will restart in some form or other in the
not too distant future. Lydia Andrews
Penn & Tylers WI 'Together'
As you will see from the above two entries, WIs
have been involved in making Scrubs Bags.
Over 6000 have been made in Buckinghamshire
by WI members. We got our Jam & Jerusalem
image from the 2nd World War when WIs
throughout the country made jam to preserve
fruit both cultivated and wild. Penn & Tylers
Green WI (the forerunner to the above WIs)
made jam and canned fruit in large quantities in
what is now the Parish Rooms. Our WI
performed better than any other in the country
as was rewarded by a visit from the Queen, later
the Queen Mother. So maybe we will at last
replace the image of Jam & Jerusalem with a
new one, although such is the diversity of
members’ talents and interests there will
undoubtedly be complaints if it’s Sewers and
Singers! The modern WI attracts scientists,
company directors, zip wire enthusiasts, nurses,
book lovers, craft workers, hairdressers,
accountants. In fact, you name it, there’s almost
certainly a WI member with that skill
somewhere in England! Hilary Forbes. P&TG Together
Alde House
Alde House, the residential home in Church
Road, Penn, was set up nearly 50 years ago by
the late Geoffrey Perfect together with some
other people from the village. Its charitable
purpose was to provide a home underpinned by
Christian love and care for the older people of
Penn and their families, a principle that
continues today.
Running a care home in today’s environment
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