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November 2022 November 2022

SOCIABLE BOOKWORMS GARDENING CLUB

Hello everyone After a three year break caused by the

The Sociable Bookworms started reading Becoming Pandemic it was good to be back in the Drax
Michelle Obama in October and our September Hall in October with our annual Harvest Supper.
book was The Lido by Libby Page…we hope to have Thirty members sat down to a supper consisting of baked Potatoes, Ham a salad
a review for both books for you in the December selection, followed by a scrumptious pudding table. No one could decide which
magazine. pudding to have so had some of each. If that wasn’t enough and you had room
you could follow that up with a cheese board.
Some of our group went to a ‘meet the author event’ with Rachel McLean at
Dorchester Library on a Saturday morning. This was a really interesting and To complete the evening Pip Evans had been persuaded to give up his usual
enjoyable opportunity to listen to the author of The Corfe Castle Murder, which Tuesday evening and come and give us a thirty minute talk and slide show
regular readers may remember we read earlier this year, explain how she featuring World Gardens he had visited. The evening wound up with a grand
raffle.
I would like to say a big thank you to our members for bringing salads and
puddings and for staying and helping to clear up afterwards. The harvest supper
does take a bit of planning and it is not easy trying to get things into the Drax Hall
with difficulties parking at night and with the stairs but I think it was worth it.
Next month lst November we are competing with Pip’s Music night at the Drax
Arms but most of our members thinking about next year are coming to listen to
Jenny Short who is giving a talk on herbaceous perennials. It will be good to start
thinking about next year.

Also put our December meeting in
develops her different series of books, the characters and their relationships with your diary. I tried to grow wild
each other, her writing style and answer numerous questions from the flowers on banks in my garden this
audience….plus we followed it with coffee and cake and then a trawl of the summer. I got Thyme, Borage and
local charity book shops. Yarrow in abundance. Poppies,
cornflowers and corn marigolds
We also had a lovely evening recently when a small group of us had a pizza and failed to materialize. What did I do
wine at Basilico Italian restaurant before heading to The Plaza Dorchester to wrong? We have a talk called
watch ‘Mrs Harris goes to Paris’…another previous book club read. If you haven’t “Throw and Grow”, on how to
managed to see this yet, you should try to see it. There’s a few more books in the grow a Wild flower meadow and
Mrs Harris series too, written by Paul Gallico…I wonder if any more will be released other annual flowers. It might be
in film version? good to think about areas of the
village to try and grow some wild
We are still welcoming new members to our group and currently meet every 4 flowers. It will be good for insects, colour, and cheer us all up.
weeks at the Royal Oak…our next two meetings are at 7:15pm on 02/11/2022 and
30/11/2022. During the winter months we usually meet in the Drax Hall on the first Tuesday of
the Month for a talk. Meetings start at 7.30 and you are usually home by 9.30 p.m.
I am looking for ideas for talks and outings next year so please let me have any
ideas and suggestions.

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