3rd Jul | Orchard Players’ Show: ‘Juke Box Journey’

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Twenty-five Capel Ladies’ Club members were transported back to the 1950s and 1960s by the Orchard Players’ vibrant production of Jukebox Journey with a live band in the Community Centre on 3 July. The set, an American Diner, was very professional and the cast sang and danced with gusto. The costumes for the first half of the performance looked like original 1950’s clothes, and the costumes for the 1960’s second half performance were of Mary Quant style. For the final number, Aquarius, the cast appeared as flower-power hippies! It was a nostalgic journey for members with memories of their teenage years flooding back!

19th Jun | Woodwards Garden Visit

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Capel Ladies’ Club members enjoyed a delightful summer evening walk around the privately-owned Woodward Gardens in Coddenham on 19th June. The owners, Richard and Marion Kenward, opened the gardens, part of the National Garden Scheme, especially for Capel Ladies. Members commented on the wonderful plants in the borders, the immaculate lawns and colourful shrubs and flowers. The hosts provided refreshments and there was an opportunity to buy plants. A return visit is planned.

7th Jun | Capel Ladies’ Capel Fun Day stall

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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!

5th Jun | Summer Social (D-Day Special)

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Thirty-five ladies dressed in red, white and blue commemorated the 70th anniversary of D-Day on 5th June 2014. They were attending their annual summer social held in the Community Centre’s Vine Lounge which was decorated with Union Flags and red, white and blue bunting. The table cloths and napkins also reflected the patriotic mood. There was an excellent buffet with a D-Day themed cake and a film show, The Glen Miller Story, all of which were greatly enjoyed.

Whilst enjoying the evening, the ladies were also very aware of the sacrifice of the soldiers who stormed the Normandy beaches all those years ago.

15th May | Suffolk Farmhouse Cheese (Farm Outing)

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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 →

1st May | The History of Shopping – a talk by Linda Sexton

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Centuries of shopping until they dropped!

Capel Ladies were taken on on a fascinating journey through centuries of shopping by their May guest speaker, Linda Sexton. Her talk, the History of Shopping, ranged from prehistory until the present day.

Shopping began with the bartering of goods well before coins were introduced. There were meeting places where farmers and other people gathered to exchange their produce which, in time, led to regular markets and later still developed into market towns. Continue reading →

17th Apr | ‘Betty Blue Eyes’ theatre visit

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A Night for Pignapping!

bettyposter 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

3rd Apr | Reminiscences of a Political Journalist

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Capel Ladies were entertained at their April meeting by village resident David Thompson’s stories of his time in journalism, totalling nearly 60 years. Twenty-five of these were spent in the Daily Mirror’s Parliamentary and Political Team, and as the newspaper’s leader writer. Continue reading →

20th Mar | Annual Dinner at The King’s Head, East Bergholt

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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

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6th Mar | Caring for your feet – talk by Julie Garwood

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This was a fascinating and informative talk by Julie Garwood, a chiropodist for 28 years who has her treatment room in Capel. The talk covered the workings and structure of the foot and, with photographs, showed the various conditions which can affect the foot. These included nail problems, corns and callouses, bunions, athlete’s foot and diabetic foot.

Our members were enthralled by the very detailed information and answers to their questions, and by the advice Julie offered afterwards. At least eight ladies also consulted her.

Julie kindly donated her fee to the Somersham Ward at Ipswich hospital and ALSO donated a treatment session to a Capel Ladies’ raffle!

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