Dear Members,
As I was on holiday for this meeting at the beginning of January, here are the Minuted comments on our guest speaker’s presentation.
“After a break for refreshment, Chris Shafe introduced Julia Miles, an Ambassadors Wife, whom she had met at a potential speakers meeting in Oxford. She gave a very interesting and entertaining talk on her life as the Wife of an Ambassador living abroad. It was entitled, Rag, Bag and Cocktail. She has written a book about her life, which was on sale to members at £10. She was giving £1.00 of each copy sold to our W.I. I think her life with a young family living abroad was often uncertain and dangerous, and not always as glamorous as we might think. Chris gave the vote of thanks.”
I was very sorry to miss Julia’s presentation but I did get to hear her speak at the new speakers audition I attended with Chris early in 2016.
Margaret Halstead xxx