The Clifton Women's Institute

  Eli says: The Game Birds will next be meeting on Tuesday 9 June at 2.00-3.45pm to learn ‘Ratrace’. We meet fortnightly on Tuesday afternoons in the Alma Tavern, Alma Rd & play a different game each time. Anyone who is free can just turn up & join us for a drink & game. (see under Special Interest Groups for Eli's contact details)

As part of Bristol's Festival of Nature 2015 programme, Radio 4 will be presenting Gardener's Question Time from Bristol Zoo Gardens in the early evening of June 1st. Tickets cost £4.50 - go to  http://www.bnhc.org.uk/ festival-of-nature/gardeners- question-time-festival-of- nature-special/   but don't delay, tickets are going fast.

Good news! We have a nucleus of members who are keen to be involved with the Entertainment planned for Clifton WI's AGM in October and Amanda will be arranging a meeting for initial discussions early in June. We could really do with a few more to join in the fun and help shape the show, so if you've been considering it don't be shy, you certainly wont be alone! How about coming along to the meeting to find out more - it doesn't commit you to perform, but it does mean you can have your say at the outset. Email Amanda on  amandawebb149@gmail.com and be in at the start, it's going to be great!

As you'll know if you were at the last meeting, Amanda Webb has very kindly offered to direct an Entertainment for us to perform at our AGM in October, aided by her colleague Gill Loats. For newcomers who might not yet know, Amanda is a founding member and past President of Clifton WI and she and Gill write and direct the annual Hotwells and Southville pantos and produce the annual fashion show for Recession. The format and content of the Entertainment is very much open to suggestions from members and will be tailored to the talents and enthusiasms of the performers, and we're looking for volunteers to join the team either to perform in some capacity or to help to organise and manage this entertainment, to be performed For One Night Only to fellow members. It's likely to be very loosely based on the WI in this Centenary year, but whatever form it takes it's guaranteed to be great fun for all involved. Amanda envisages that the production would involve four or five