Capel Ladies Club’s Cake and Games’ stall at the village Fun Day on 7th June was organised by Linda Evans and very well supported by members. The cakes were all baked by members and the stall was a sell-out! There were also some table-top games which were enjoyed by parents as well as children! The stall raised £180 of which £40 came from the games. Capel Ladies will decide at their next meeting where to distribute the money. It was a real fun day for members!
Capel Ladies Club’s May excursion to the Suffolk Farmhouse Cheese Farm, an outstanding county business on the A140 at Creeting St Mary, was a great success.
Twenty-nine members were escorted on a tour of the milking parlour for the herd of Guernsey cows, and shown the dairy and cheese-making area by the owners, Jason and Katherine Salisbury. Continue reading
A Night for Pignapping!
It was back in time for 20 Capel Ladies, to November 1947 for their April 2014 theatre outing, to watch the antics of a chiropodist and his wife who kidnapped an unlicensed little pink pig called Betty Blue Eyes which was being fattened up for a banquet to celebrate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
Ipswich’s Wolsey Theatre was the ideal venue for the production of this musical comedy because the theatre’s seating arrangement allowed the audience to feel part of the action on stage.
The cast gave a very slick professional performance throughout the production. Capel Ladies left the theatre having enjoyed the feel-good factor provided by the show with its catchy songs, great choreographed chorus numbers and a puppeteer who brought Betty to life so vividly on stage that we wanted to pignap her home with us!
Penny Thompson
Capel Ladies’ annual dinner was held at the beautifully refurbished King’s Head in East Bergholt on 20th March. Twenty-five members enjoyed an excellent three-course meal with a complimentary drink. There was a very happy atmosphere with lots of laughter. Members remarked on the high quality of food and the friendly staff.
– Penny Thompson
Hello Ladies! Here are some of the snaps I took at our Annual Dinner. My apologies to you all for the quality of the photos. I think I will need to revert to using my camera in future rather than my mobile. I’m sorry not everyone is shown – many of you were understandably blinking at the bright flash so I did not include you.
– Sue Woolgar
This week’s outing was a visit to Dove Close where Capel Ladies Club members were treated to a demonstration of Indian cookery by Sati Webb. Sati was taught Indian cooking by her mother and has had 20 years experience of the art. Her speciality is Indian vegetable samosas.
Thirty-five members along with residents of Dove Close followed with interest the preparation and cooking, and enjoyed sampling the samosas at the end. Sati has a clear and engaging manner which made the demonstration entertaining as well as easy to follow, and everybody went home with a very detailed samosas recipe. Perhaps the outcome will be special Capel Samosas!
Below is a summary of our programme of events in 2013.
Read the reports of each meeting and outing by clicking on the ‘R’ next to the date.
| Jan 17th | R | Capel Ladies Club A.G.M. |
| Feb 7th | R | The Azores (talk & slides) – Geo Fradgley |
| Feb 21st | R | DVD film night in the Vine Lounge |
| Mar 7th | R | The Making Of Gog and Magog – basket-weaving talk by Jan Barker |
| Mar 21st | R | Annual Dinner @ Bramford Cock |
| Apr 4th | R | A Royal Year (illustrated talk) – Ken Stone |
| April 18th | R | Theatre Trip: East Bergholt Dramatics Society |
| May 2nd | R | Herbs In The Garden – Karen Kenny |
| May 16th | R | Visit to Ipswich Mosque |
| June 6th | R | ‘Tales of the Unexpected!’ |
| June 20th | R | Visit to Recycling Facility @ Great Blakenham |
| July 4th | R | Summer Social (+ Ladies Day at Ascot) |
| July 18th | R | Full day coach trip to Sandringham |
| Aug 8th | R | Summer meal / BBQ |
| Aug 22nd | -NO MEETING- | |
| Sep 5th | R | Suffolk Farmhouse Cheeses (talk and tasting + wine!) – Jason Salisbury |
| Sep 19th | R | Indian cookery (demonstration and meal) – CHANGED! |
| Oct 3rd | R | Uganda: Work In Progress (talk) – Alison Brain |
| Oct 17th | R | Bramford Crafts and Candles |
| Nov 7th | R | The World of Optical Illusions (talk and demo) – Colin Hopper |
| Nov 21st | ||
| Dec 5th | R | Textiles and Embroidery (talk and demo) – Mandy Bouttell |
| Dec 19th | R | Christmas Social in the Vine Lounge |
| Jan 16th (2014) | R | Capel Ladies Club A.G.M. |
Programme may be subject to alteration.
Fifteen Capel Ladies spent a very enjoyable evening at the Bramford Crafts & Candles centre on their October outing.
Our mentor for the evening was Diane who instructed us in the art of “Décopatch”. Continue reading
Our “Out” meeting at Dove Close was scheduled as an Indian Cookery Demonstration, but – once again! – we had to re-think on our feet as the speaker was ill on the night!
Seven residents joined us, including one gentleman, and Shirley and Mary organised the games. We had two games of Bingo and two quizzes, one about food and one about geography followed by refreshments. We stayed chatting for quite a while afterwards, and the residents seemed very pleased to have us there saying they hope we will go again. It was a very convivial evening and a lovely warm place to go on a chilly night. Sofas and arm chairs for some of us so it was almost like being in someone’s sitting room! We all agreed we must try to repeat the visit as they made us very welcome.
– Di Barker, Chairlady
We couldn’t have asked for better weather for our day trip to Sandringham! If anything it was a bit too warm, but no-one was complaining! We left Capel at 9.30 with a full coachload and stopped for coffee at Swaffham at the Ecotech Centre. This is next to the huge wind turbine with a viewing platform that you can actually climb up to if you have a mind! None of us did, however, and we went on to Sandringham enjoying the beautiful Breckland scenery on the way. Continue reading
Members from Capel Ladies recently visited the Viridor Masons Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), at Great Blakenham. We were greeted by Carole Locke and Karen Plumstead and shown into the Education Suite. Continue reading
Capel Ladies Club 