President Rob's Mystery Evening

9th February 2023 Mystery ‘Call my Bluff’ President Rob

Inevitably the evening started with the Turkey/Syria Earthquake disaster, given the following background: we had a matching grant for support for Ukrainians and have only managed to spend just over £500 of the £2000. I spoke with District to check out how best to proceed with the money, especially important because requests have dropped off.  The suggestion was that we work on a budget of £1000 and return “our contribution” to our charity funding. My original intention was to discuss this at our next meeting, but following the Turkish earthquake Adrian put the following proposal to Club. "That members give approval for Club to spend this £1000 in the following way -(1) £600 for a Shelter Box (2) £400 into Rotary's Earthquake Disaster Fund"

Proposal seconded by Mary Bridge-Collyns and unanimously approved bt all 26 members present for immediate action.  However, we have our Frog race event on Saturday, which is sold out, so there may be additional funding available from that event.

Then to President Rob’s Mystery event and following  our quiz season he selected ‘call my Bluff’, so he attempted to split us into 5 teams of 4, leaving a team of 3, Doug Duncan and Peter; as is normal this process took about 10 minutes!. Then the fun began with such words that Rob had prepared like: ERGASY, GRIMTHORP, PODIACIDE, FEATEOUS and FUSTILUGS. A second round followed with further ‘unusual’ words, but resulting in 3 teams sharing the winners enclosure: Chris N, Stan, Mike W & Stuart; Ian, Bill, Chris B & Allen then the “indecisive “team of David V, Jane, Mary and Gail, all scoring 6 points from Rob’s mysterious scoring system.  A good fun evening with clear demonstrations of the members vivid creative skills ranging from ‘ a blacksmiths tool’ to ‘cotton stuffed ears’!              AR