You are welcome to join us for a virtual book club on wednesday 27th November ay 7.30pm when we will share our thoughts on Barbara Kingsolvers first book The Bean Trees . Please contact Mary on 07886469701 for details
President Su and others have been enjoying a motivating conference in Edinburgh. Here is the link to the detail of the event https://sigbi.org/edinburgh2024/
Safeguarding and Anti-Social behaviour You can read more about the work of CHADD via the link above
Members and friends made a visit to Astley Vineyard. Most of us travelled by minibus which enabled us to try all the wines available. Fortunately, the rain held off and the sun came out making the day an excellent one with lots of knowledge picked up about the process of wine making.
Literary Dinner 2024 Friday, 22nd November 7 for 7.30pm at Hagley Golf Club, Wassell Grove Lane, DY9 9JW £42 per head We are pleased to welcome as our guests the following three local speakers: Liam Brown Liam is an award-winning novelist from Birmingham. He is the author of 5 novels which have been translated into several languages and optioned for film. His fourth, Skin, published in 2019, was shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize and describes the consequences of a global pandemic, which proved to be all too
Set in present-day France, the book delivers, among other things, a parody of contemporary French fiction and theory, a meditation on the promise and peril of radical politics, an elegy for the soon-to-be-lost way of life of small European farmers, reflections on both modernity and prehistory, accounts of medieval peasant revolts, climate anxiety, white wine, sex, violence, betrayal, and an ars poetica whose central metaphor figures the novelist as a kind of secret agent: a liar who seduces the reader by pretending to be someone else We are a small group who chat about the monthly chosen book, even if you have not read the book you are welcome to join us. Email mary.tooley@talktalk.net for any queries
The Riverside House Project was part of the International Festival of Glass 2024 Soroptimists support the Project which aims to give young unemployed adults and young people practical and communication skills as well as developing their self esteem through their involvement in rejuvenating a derelict ninetieth century former ironworks site that backs onto Stourbridge Canal. The project has converted to offices containers and a gorgeous round house. Vegetables are grown in raised beds and people are creating parkland and a flower meadow.The plan is to revive the dry dock and canal basin and provide a space for the local community. Long term plans are to restore the derelict house on the site and to open the garden onto the canal frontage. whole community…
