Easingwold WI October report

There was a good attendance at the October meeting, despite the dreadful weather.

As always lots of arrangements were made, tickets given out for the Carol Service at Ampleforth, lifts arranged for our lunch at Raskelf, theatre tickets distributed for HMS Pinafore and lists for the rota for the Christmas fair and the next theatre visit, Sweeney Todd in February.

Our speaker for the evening was Barbara Hickman with a talk with slides entitled “Trees for small gardens”.

Barbara had been a teacher and had travelled the world, visiting many botanical gardens and enjoying nature, seeing massive trees in New Zealand.

Her lifelong interest had been sparked by her mother, who had taken her on regular nature walks, describing trees, flowers and wildlife as they went.

Barbara decided to give up teaching and trained at Askham Bryan as a gardener…….