{"id":5119,"date":"2020-07-26T13:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T12:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2020-07-26T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T12:40:20","slug":"president-joyce-message-week-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/2020\/07\/26\/president-joyce-message-week-18\/","title":{"rendered":"President Joyce Message &#8211; Week Eighteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Good Morning Soroptimist Sisters,<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I hope that all is well with you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Today, it&#8217;s actually happened &#8211; the week when I have very little club news to pass on to you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Clubs are definitely winding down for the summer, although not all of them, as I am invited to attend two ZOOM meetings next week; so hopefully I will have something to report in my next message.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I look forward to seeing some familiar faces in Carlisle and South Shields.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>SI Middlesbrough<\/strong> are planning their first &#8216;real&#8217; meeting in September as their meetings venue will be reopening. They have been having their Executive meetings face to face for some time and have also had a ZOOM meeting with their Friendship Link &#8211; SI Magdeburg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I suppose that virtual meetings with Friendship Links have come about through our current situation, and that this is positive progress. Would we have thought about it previously?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Jane Katsambis of <strong>SI Durham<\/strong> updated me that she was able to deliver no less than eight bags of food and cleaning materials to Bishop Auckland Refuge. All collected from Durham members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">So this Sunday it will be a much shorter message than the previous 17 have been and will mainly be about my week which started badly, as whilst walking to Sainsbury&#8217;s early Monday morning, I found myself face down on the pavement &#8211; my toe had caught a raised paving stone and I measured my length. SPLAT!\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a0 \u00a0Imagine the vision of a beached whale!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I mention this incident to demonstrate the &#8216;kindness of strangers&#8217; as within a minute I had three strangers assisting me, a gentleman came from his car, a young lady jogger stopped and a lady parked up also and hurried to help. They eventually got me to my feet, the gentleman fetched a First Aid kit from his car and bandaged my bleeding hand and the lady put me into her car and drove me home. [No social distancing could be observed in the circumstances!].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I was so lucky not to have any breakages, even my spectacles survived! The bruises and scrapes are healing nicely and the aches and stiffness much less.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I am now completely recovered and was able to complete two lengthy recording jobs for the blind during the rest of the week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Also this week, I registered for the Belfast Federation Conference online and paid by bank transfer &#8211; I found it extremely easy to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Yesterday I attended my fourth GoTo Virtual Meeting with Federation President Isobel and other Regional\/National Association Presidents. I have found these meetings to be extremely useful and enlightening. If COVID-19 had not happened, we would never have got to know each other and hear about what every Region is doing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">My quote today was suggested by my good friend, Dorothy, in the Wirral, who has been supplying\u00a0 quotes which I can use.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This one is by Helen Keller:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><em>KEEP YOUR FACE TO THE SUNSHINE AND YOU CANNOT SEE A SHADOW<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Finally to add something comforting from a favourite book from childhood :THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER by AA Milne written in 1928:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-5121\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2020\/07\/Doc1cropped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><em>Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><em>&#8216;Pooh&#8217;, he whispered<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><em>&#8216;Yes, Piglet?&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><em>&#8216;Nothing&#8217; said Piglet taking Pooh&#8217;s paw;&#8217; I just wanted to be sure of you!&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Until next week &#8211; Stay Safe and Keep Well<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">In Friendship,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Joyce<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">PRESIDENT<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">SINE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Good Morning Soroptimist Sisters, I hope that all is well with you? 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