I hope that you have all developed some sort of sanity-saving routine for these days. Many, I am sure, have put the time to good use and created some beautiful embroidery and other things. Some of the pictures sent I have reproduced at the end of this letter. (spread through this post in the online version)
Some interesting developments – Jenni Langford has re-discovered our FaceBook page. It’s called Jozi Stitch and I think will be useful platform for sharing pictures of what we have achieved, and news about other embroidery things. I know we looked at it for advertising purposes, but no one seems to know who the administrator is. I know Jenny Shippey’s son
came up with the name and was responsible for quite a bit of our online stuff, but it may be useful to scrape of the rust and get this and other things back in service. If anyone knows about this, and where it all came from, please let me/us know, so that proper controls and organisation can be put in place.
Secondly, I would remind you that Wendy updated the membership lists last October and sent it to all of you. Should you wish to contact someone or to express congratulations/condolences/where–have-you-been messages, please use that list to contact them. No everyone wants their business known to all and sundry, and posting such matters on public places like FaceBook or WhatsApp groups is for THEM to decide, not wellmeaning
but misguided members of the Guild. Which leads me to the next issue – TARA……….
Thirdly, Hilary Walker has been given the go-ahead to set up a WhatsApp group for the whole guild. This is a very useful way to keep in contact and to get out mini-messages which need to be communicated immediately. HOWEVER!!!!!!!!!! No is obliged to be on the group, and you may exit the group if you wish. HOWEVER NUMBER TWO!!!!!!!!!!!! Please be disciplined and mature about your use of it. If you want to post pictures and motivational articles and funny stories, please use the FaceBook page for that. If you start a long chat about something and people’s phones are ‘pinging’ like a faulty heart monitor when they are in the bank, in church, at the doctor’s or in the cinema, then all that is going to happen is that they will exit the group and it will become a pointless exercise. Something of this sort has happened on the Saturday group, with the result it is now the exclusive domain of about 10 people. WE ARE SENSIBLE, GROWN UP PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS and we know how to behave ourselves. We know that members of the Guild are wonderful people, Everyone is kind and no one means to be a nuisance, but sometimes we are a bit impulsive. Please know we are NOT going to check up on you like a lot of naughty children, but it would be a crying shame if we have to abandon this useful bit of technology because it’s not very user-friendly.
Apart from that – we don’t know yet when lockdown will be lifted and we can meet again. Let’s keep cheerful and busy, and creative, and I’m sure it will all be resolved one day. Keep healthy too, and don’t take chances. You are precious people and no one needs this very nasty virus.
Happy birthday to those who are celebrating this month. We have had two “virtual” birthday parties in my family. It’s not the same, but is something of a life-saver when we can’t physically meet. And NO ONE wants to get or give this virus.