Welcome to our two newest members

A big welcome to Liz and Helen, our two newest members during a lovely evening of wine, cake and strawberries at Shirley's earlier this week. We're all set for Radlett Festival on Sunday and are getting the publicity going for our Cheese, Wine & Chat in a couple of weeks. We're also hoping that the weather stays gorgeous for the Open Air Theatre trip as wellies is so not a good look!

Here come the girls...for a taste of Circle!

Cheese, wine & chat evening open to any women living in Radlett & surrounding villages aged 18-45 who want to find out more about what we do and have a great night out. From 8pm at the Radlett Youth & Community Ctr (corner of Loom Lane & Watling St), come along and try out a few new wines and cheeses. Book your places through the email link on this site for just £5 per head. A warm welcome awaits!

Old Skool 80s Disco Night

Having shaken up our wardrobes and raided the charity shops / kids' bedrooms, we donned our school uniforms or 80s gear last Saturday for the Round Table Old Skools 80s Disco. Re-living our teens, we danced the night away to Duran Duran, FGTH and Madness. Our 'skool dinners' of bangers & mash gave us the extra energy for some more dancing. Even 'Vicky Pollard' managed to have a laugh - joined here by Radlett Circle 'skool girls'. A great night was had by all and some money was raised to help Round Table in extra fundraising.

Card Shark Alert!

Fellow poker players, from newbies to old hands, met last month for the Great Poker Showdown. Radlett circlers were joined by Area 21 chums from Harpenden, Letchworth and St Albans. Our patient croupiers managed the session fabulously yet our skill seemed to reduce as the night went on - could have been something to do with large scale wine and food consumption! There was a brilliant atmosphere, even in those tense moments, and Michelle from Radlett took the trophy. Many thanks to Julie for hosting and the boys for giving us that Casino Royale moment (not sure where Daniel Craig got to though). Same time next year?

National Council Meeting in Sunny Solihull

Nicola, our Area Chair, headed up to Solihull last Friday for the February National Council meeting. There was a dinner with a buzzing beetle drive on the Friday night: she stumbled into bed just after midnight - her roomie made it through to 3.30am. Clearly, she needs to work on her stamina before National Conference in May!

The business kicked off about 9am, with loads of useful discussion and decisions made - minutes to follow shortly. There was great news about membership, with several new clubs opening and many increasing their numbers. Nominations were received for all Exec roles for next year, with the exception of Minutes secretary. A new role as Media/PR has been taken forward to the AGM to be voted in / out as an Exec role. Everyone is working really hard to manage costs, including pulling out of Marchesi House contract with RTBI so there is no increase to national capitation this year from the team, although a very slight increase is liable due to increased insurance costs and International caused by unfavourable exchange rates. Due to fabulous time management, business was wrapped up by 3pm and Nicola headed back south, having had a lovely 24 hours!

Picture attached of our gorgeous Exec, including our very own Chris from Welwyn, looking lovely in their buzzy bee outfits.

Swing Party Night Pictures

Sorry these are a bit late in posting - fantastic fun and raised £1,500 for the Lymphoma Society

Eastern Regional Lunch 2009

Six Radlett circlers set off through the snow for Thame to go to this year's Eastern Regional Lunch. Made it in plenty of time to get our slap on and get into the bar. After lunch and plenty of wine, we retired to the spa to chill out (except Julie who actually did some swimming). Back to get changed again and have some comedy moments with the TV maintenance man, then headed into Oxford for dinner then a club. Three of us pottered around Thame, managing to spend some money despite 90% of the shops being closed, whilst the rest tootled back home. All in all, a great weekend! More photos to follow - here is Nicola with Vicky Perry, National Membership Sec.

Mamma Mia - what a great night!

Thanks to Shirley for hosting our Mama Mia night - we sangalonga Abba, dressed in our best 70s outfits and scoffed lots of retro food! Pictures to follow...

Frozen but not by fright!

Last Wednesday 9 intrepid Circlers from Radlett went on a Ghost Walk around St Albans, joined by Vicky Perry (National Membership Sec) and Jo from Harpdenden. Despite freezing temperatures, we had a great time, learnt some new things we didn't know and soon warmed up in the pub afterwards with Irish Coffees all round! Many thanks to the Tourist Information Office for a good evening and some spooky stories.