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They won an award three years running for developing a special glue used for sticking all manner of paper and wood. Christine says it glues anything!!!<\/p>\n<p>Christine does not sew but makes all sorts of boxes, Christmas trees which open up to hold sweets, etc. They appear on TV Sky channel \u201cIdeal World\u201d. They have just produced a board for disabled people called a \u201cBuddy Board\u201d which can be used one handed and will spin round when placed on a table.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the firm is Pin Flare, it is an Aladdins cave.<\/p>\n<p>A most enjoyable talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our speaker on 1st February 2016 was Mrs Christine Bell, telling us how she started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>1st February 2016 Growing a Business - Christine Bell | News | Blog | Events | SI Hertford and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Hertford and District : Blog &amp; News : 1st February 2016 Growing a Business - Christine Bell : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Hertford and District . 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