After Telford came the Moose southern area President's evening. This is what all our dance lessons had been for. Steve Spellor was the singer and he was/is amazing. We started the dancing with our hungarian waltz. Barry had to install the area officers into their positions, he's been warned so many times to not be flippant etc... that he was very nervous and made a couple of mistakes, I can honestly say I've never seen him so nervous and felt sorry for him. He jokes to cover and overcome his nerves and by trying to be something he isn't it didn't work!! He takes his position very seriously and 99% of people he's seen have told him to carry on as he was, that is who he is and as long as he's doing no harm and bein disrespectful he should be ok!
We had area picnic at Durlston country park in June and it was quite well attended, although windy the weather was dry and very warm and I got very sunburnt as I hadn't realised how it would be and hadn't put sun lotion on!
barry's been very busy visiting the local lodges and we've had a great welcome wherever we've been. By October he will have just about visited every lodge in our area at least once!!
In June we went to the Midlands, I had booked a room in the Travelodge for 2 nights back in January as it was only £9 a night, we went round the town, visited Barry's brother and my sister, and a friend, I took a trip down memory lane and walked to the estate i used to live, which was more emotional than I expected it to be! I had hoped to meet an old school friend, but Barry is struggling with me wanting some independence, so I didn't go in the end, but am working on it!!
Went to a cream tea on Sunday, the weather was beautiful (I was prepared and covered this time so didn't get burnt) The food was plentiful and the company as always was great (it was a moose event) They raised just over £200 in a couple of hours for the ladies circle, so well done them!! If I can work out how to upload a pic I will do later, I can't remember
coming up we have the silver anniversary of our very dear friends, kev and katrina, so going to be very busy again.