Branch Officers and Committee 2018-19 President Pearl Morton 263252

Vice President Yvonne Hayes 578306

Chairman Dorinda Richardson 330824

Vice Chair Trevor Caunt 705681

Secretary Helen Barnett 237281

Assist Secretary Jean Close 01775 423028

Treasurer Jean Close 01775 423028

Asst Treas. Jean Lawson 572980

Sales Organisers Yvonne Hayes 578306

Sales Organisers Brenda Bliss

Raffle Organiser Irene Amos

Membership Secretary Mike Collins 559095

Assist Membership Secretary Sandy Collins 559095

Welfare Officer Sandra Parker 232344

Outings Secretary Barbara Davies 348421

Birthday Club Rosemary Fisher 01778 342722

Speaker Host Pearl Morton 263252

New Member Hostess

Monthly News Editor Trevor Caunt 705681

Branch First Aider Dorinda Richardson

Committee Member Chris Dunham 206715

Committee Member Diane Cade 562949

Committee Member Hazel Black 370694

Committee Member Josie Waghorn 01778 346196

John Rostill, NHSRF Director, 07427571816

Patrons: Mr Ken Jarrold CBE

Mrs E Armstrong MBE

Picture taken by Marilyn from the car on leaving Buckingham Palace

Visit our Website: www.nhsrf-pboro.com National Website : www.nhsrf.org.uk Contact the Editor: E.mail: trevor.caunt@ntlworld.com Snail mail: 54 Thorpe Lea Road, Peterborough, PE3 6BZ Tel : 01733 705681

Peterborough & District Branch NHS Retirement Fellowship

CHAIRMAN

Good afternoon, I can’t believe we are half way

through the year. Time certainly doesn’t stand still.

Those of you who attended the AGM will know

that I was elected to be your chair for another term along with two re-

elected members and two new members, leaving two vacancies. Sadly two

longstanding members stood down, together with our secretary.

I can say that we will do our utmost to keep the meetings interesting and

hopefully have a good programme of outings.

Issue no 6 JUNE/JULY

2018

We celebrate 40 years of the formation of the Fellowship along with

70 years of the NHS next month by holding our Tea Party on July 5th at

Orton Hall. I hope that we have an enjoyable afternoon. It is not too late

to join us, just let me know as soon as possible so that we can let the

venue know the numbers.

On that note I will close, take care of yourselves and enjoy the Sum-

mer.

Dorinda.

A picture of Hunstanton

looking out to the Wash.

Clues: Across: 1. Scottish football manager.(8) 7. The Nene is one. (5). 8. Type of trap (5). 9. Imperial weight. (5). 10. Type of button. (4). 12. Type of fish. (4). 14. Clever. (6). 17. Information giver. (5). 18. Short duration. (5). 19. Rumi-

nants stomach (8). Down: 1. Type of bed. (5). 2. Mischievous. (6). 3. Not short. (4). 4. Strong. (5). 5. Tea venue. (5&4). 6. Animal food. (9). 11. Building materials. (6). 13. Food roasted on a spit. (5). 15. Widespread hatred. (5). 16. Sad. (4).

Answers from the May Crossword. Across: 1. Sunshine 7. Lilos. 8. Sable 9. Rhein. 10. Test. 12. Near 14. Custom. 17. Syrup. 18. Mitre. 19. Glycerol. Down: 1. Salve. 2. Nosing. 3. Host. 4. Noble. 5. Alertness. 6. September. 11. Summer. 13. April. 15. Total. 16. Epic.

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EDITORIAL Members will be aware that we will not be having a meeting in July as the Church are doing some work in the hall and we are holding our afternoon tea to celebrate the 40th and 70th anniversaries. In view of this there will not be a newsletter published for July.

As many of you are aware we were away in Austria at the end of May, staying at our usual hotel in the small town of Fuschl. We were given a very warm welcome, not just by the staff but also by the weather being brilliant - hot sunshine with one day of some rain. They had had the hot-test May for a very long time so many people were swimming in the lake - not June and I, I hasten to add. The owner had his 60th birthday on the bank holiday Monday. As we had used a travel agent this year we took the opportunity to go with the local rep on a 7 mile walk in an area that we not been in before. On the day of the AGM we were travelling back to the UK without any problems via Stansted airport. I hope that when any of you go on your holidays you have a good break coming back refreshed and prepared to let me have some items for the newsletter. Trevor.

ANNIVERSARY AFTERNOON TEA

Thursday July 5th at Orton Hall 2 for 2.30. Cost £14.95

SANDRINGHAM FLOWER SHOW Wednesday July 25th, entrance to show and coach fare

£18.00.

ELGOODS BREWERY Tuesday September 4th.

Brewery tour and garden admission £8.00 plus coach fare

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VISIT TO HUNSTANTON JUNE 6TH.

The first pick up at the Rowing Lake saw a good number of intrepid ex-

plorers get on the coach travelling first to Whittlesey to pick up the rest of

the explorers a total of 34, with 16 Fellowship members. As it was not a

very nice morning weather wise Barbara asked if we wanted to stop at

Dobbies in Kings Lynn as a coffee stop. This we did arriving at Hun-

stanton by midday.

The first idea was to find a friendly café for dinner. June and I, having

had many visits/holidays, knew of several so found one that did not have

a long queue. Many I think settled for fish and chips. As we were free do

our own thing before being picked up for the home run at 4pm, June and

I went for a stroll west along the prom, but not as far as we would have

liked as it was a bit windy and cool, then met up with some like minded

people at the handicraft shop, buying an hand made card for our new

family member born near the end of May.

What next well - a sit to watch the world go by, it was a bit warmer by

now, and then a cup of tea and a cake, then back on bus for the ride

home.

The trip home took a bit longer as there had been an accident which

had closed one of the roads which the driver wanted to use, so off on a

detour down some quite narrow roads, finally arriving home at about

5.45. Well done to the driver for getting round on the detour.

Many thanks to Barbara for her organisation. After taking into account

the income from the small raffle the outing made a small profit of £30 for

the Fellowship.

Trevor and June.

This picture of

Hunstanton taken

looking towards

some of the shops.

One of Nigel’s photographs that won one the prizes in the

latest Fellowship competition

BUCKINGHAM PALACE GARDEN PARTY

5TH JUNE 2018.

This picture shows Princess Anne to the left of the gentleman in the top hat

This picture shows the Duchess of Cornwall coming down the line with the blue and white hat to the right of

the gentleman leaning forward.

The Garden Party was obviously organised for various groups with Archbishop Welby and Retired Bishops - talked to one who had been Bishop of Ely and also Bradford and a Scout leader from Stowmarket where I had been a Scout in 1958. We did not manage to meet or even see the Royal Party apart from when the Stewards gathered all the disabled wheelchair users into a line as the Royals were departing as seen by the pictures above, but including Prince

Charles, Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Duke and Duchess of Gloucester all of whom spoke to the disabled as they passed. This picture of Michael and Marilyn in the gardens for the afternoon tea. All these pictures were taken by either Michael or Marilyn. Michael and Marilyn My thanks go to Michael and his family for their work in getting these pictures to me, especially during the time that Marilyn has been in hospital after having a stroke.

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BRANCH MEETINGS

Are held on the last Wednesday of each month

and will be held in

St Andrew’s Church Hall,

Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough.

members must not go into the hall until vacated by the previous users.

NEXT MEETING

Wednesday, August 29th

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

Ray Nicholson

Doors open 2pm, refreshments (50p) from 2.15pm, meeting

2.30pm

The usual sales table and Raffle.

We are a Fellowship, the dictionary definition of this word is as follows -

participation, sharing, community of interest, companionship, friendliness. We

come from a caring profession and it is important that we all do our best to uphold

this ethic, which includes taking care of each other when to need arises. If you

know of any member who is ill, bereaved or in need of some TLC, and this

includes yourself, please contact our Welfare Officer, Sandra know (telephone

number is on the back page) or if she is not available let one of the committee

members know.

At each committee meeting we get a report on members who have not been

well and need our thoughts.

We wish all members who have been poorly a speedy recovery.

Application forms for help from the National Benevolent Fund are available

from Central Office Telephone 01305 361317. Complete the form and return as

directed. If you need help please contact Sandra or Margaret or any member of

the committee.

The National Website is www.nhsfr.org.uk/memberssection. If you need

access to this site please contact one of the committee members who will be able

to get you the necessary password. Trevor Caunt, Editor.

Branch meeting report continued from page 7.

Pearl Morton showed the members the invitation to the Holyrood House

garden party to celebrate the NHS 70th anniversary .

Dorinda entertained members with anecdotes from her trip along the

Inca Trail, when she raised money for the Children’s Society, and had

sponsorship from Princess Anne.

There is no Branch meeting in July as the hall is not available and we are

having our anniversary tea celebration earlier in the month.

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NGNPUK (No Gain, No Pain UK)

This is our nominated charity for 2018. We hope that a member will be able to attend to receive the bags that have so far been made for the charity.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS

FOR JULY AND AUGUST 2018 03 Jean Close 03 Carmel Owens 09 Marjorie Peck 16 Pamela Wilkinson 19 Leanne Shelton 20 Lorna Jarvis 28 Sheila Middleton 01 Susanne Prime 03 Margaret Parker 12 Hazel Day 12 Jane Gardner 20 Pearl Morton 20 Carol Short 24 Barbara Cheeseman 24 Yvonne Hayes ++++ 30 Ena Goulding ++++ Denotes special birthday.

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APRIL 25th and MAY 30th

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The Life of a Butler Continued from

last month.

So it was that in 1991 he moved to

Burghley House, where there were

two butlers, but unfortunately they

did not get on, so after 21/2 years he

moved on again. Back to London

and another businessman. He was

unhappy with the way that his em-

ployer treated the female staff, he

shouted at them, and threw food

back if he was not happy - time to

move on.

Despite not speaking the language,

he moved to Germany, as he was

told it wasn’t needed. There were

two children in the household, and

part of his job was to teach them

English, albeit with a Scottish accent.

He worked long hours, often with

dinner parties for up to 50 people.

George has always liked to go to

church, and so every other week,

when Sunday was his day off, he

would go, and the local people wel-

comed him, not only in church, but

into their homes afterwards for Sun-

day lunch. One weekend he didn’t

have an invitation and so a lady in-

vited him to go out for lunch to the

Black Forest. Neither spoke the oth-

ers language, but got on well, the

upshot being that he learned one

laced with vodka at 11am, with

sherry for the ladies. Lunch was

served at 1pm again with alcohol.

At meal times in the house guests

help themselves from plates of-

fered by the staff, and not silver

service where the waiter puts the

food on your plate and is overseen

by the butler standing at the head

of the table and who must have a

blank face at all times.

In 1901 there were 30 staff in the

house at Burghley, there are now 2

butlers, a cook and 3 cleaning la-

dies. There are 18 rooms open to

the public and one lady cleans

them every day.

The running of the house has now

been handed over to the next gen-

eration.

MAY Meeting.

This meeting was our AGM using

the agenda provided in the May

Newsletter. The various reports

were presented and accepted by

the members. Dorinda Richard-

son, Sandy Collins, Barbara Da-

vies were re-elected and Diane

Cade and Josie Waghorn were

elected as new committee mem-

bers. Dorinda was also re-elected

to stand as Chairman for another

term. Yvonne Taylor, Jean Lawson

and Margaret Inglett retired from

the committee. Many thanks to

them for all their hard work.

Dorinda gave an update on our

charity and hoped that a member

would attend the next meeting.

There were no special birthdays

this month and nothing to report on

Welfare.

Barbara has trips which are de-

tailed in the newsletters. The prison

lunch went well and was enjoyed by

all.

Membership now stands at 89 with

5 members who have not renewed.

The situation with members receiv-

ing the local Trust’s Pulse magazine

was discussed. Also the new Data

Protection forms must be completed

and returned.

Dorinda is disappointed with the

numbers going to the Anniversary

Tea and so it was decided to open it

out to family and friends of members.

Final numbers required by mid June

so please contact her using the infor-

mation in the newsletter. There will

be photographs and our scrapbooks

available on the day. Most of you will

be aware that a new school stands

on part of the site where the Memo-

rial Wing stood in Midland Road, and

that the original entrance has been

retained. Trevor is in contact with the

Headmistress to try and get a visit to

look round. More information at the

next meeting.

This years annual conference and

National AGM is being held in Ches-

ter from November 1st to 3rd.

Dorinda has reservation forms for

those who wish to go..

phrase in German - translated as ‘I

love you will all my heart, and they

got married.

George saw an advertisement for a

butler at Burghley House and de-

cided to ring up. He spoke to Lady

Victoria Leatham, who gave him the

job over the phone, and so he and

his wife went back to Lincolnshire.

They had a lovely flat in the main

house. The draw back was the it had

74 stairs and no lift. His wife became

a cleaner in the house, and during

the regular morning coffee breaks

the other staff helped her with her

English.

At Burghley guests were the tops,

a shooting party was held every

other weekend during the shooting

season, with guests arriving on Fri-

day evening to be greeted with a gin

and tonic. Dinner would be relatively

informal, lounge suits only needed

and was served in the gold dining

room. Placemats only on the tables,

tablecloths only used at breakfast.

Each course would be accompanied

by a different alcoholic drink, it is a

wonder that anyone was still stand-

ing by the end! After this they were

all expected to be ready to shoot at

9am the next morning. The butler

was on hand to serve flasks of soup