Soroptimist International is a worldwide volunteer service organisation. Once a year on International Evening, we celebrate and remember our International connections. This year we were thrilled to welcome two new members, Janet and Shelley Goynich both with strong International Connections. The Mayor and Mayoress of Scarborough, Joe and Margaret Plant, helped us celebrate and we enjoyed an buffet with an International flavour. Even the raffle prizes originated outside the UK.            

I have been in Liverpool, attending the annual conference for Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland. www.sigbi.org. ‘Women inspiring action, transforming lives.’ There were inspirational speakers, who have worked their way through the most challenging of circumstances. Reports were presented by some of the three hundred and fifty clubs, about the educating, empowering and enabling work Soroptimist volunteers have achieved around UK and the world. Projects which are only a drop in the ocean of Poverty, Loneliness, Slavery, Abuse, Genital Mutilation, Human Trafficking, Imprisonment, Hunger, Hygiene, Disease and Education. Returning home I found that the fridge freezer had broken down with resulting problems, my husband’s smartphone had broken, the car repair bill was massive and Christmas is just around the corner. My husband became a little ’Dad’s Army’, along the lines of, “We’re all doomed.’ I stopped him and said, “I’ve just spent three days