ALL smiles at Bishop’s Waltham community day where the club held a stall to raise awareness of Soroptimist International and the work we do alongside selling books and hand-made Christmas decorations.
Pictured are Sue Baddeley, membership secretary, right, and Ann Johnson who were fortunate to be doing the morning shift when the weather stayed largely dry.
It was a less lucky situation for Rosemary Coward and Kathleen Durning who took over manning the stall in time to be hit by a torrential downpour that turned them both into “drowned rats”, in Rosemary’s own words.
The bedraggled duo did their best to save the goods on display.
“Unfortunately, about half the books got really wet and others were quite damp,” said Rosemary.
“The damp ones are in my conservatory waiting for the sun to dry them out, the really wet ones I think will have to go to the tip!
“The Christmas decorations are fine and the Soroptimist banner is recovering in the garage.”