Luna Cinema - Top Gun

The weather was certainly kind to us when we ventured out to the Luna Cinema at Sheffield Amphitheatre to watch Top Gun!  It was a bonus to watch the sunset over the city too.

Sunday Stroll - Grindleford to Dore

Thank you to Sue Hughes, Caroline and Kate for organising and guiding us on a lovely sunny walk from Grindleford back to Dore.

We took the train from Dore station to Gindleford, walked up through Padley Gorge into Longshaw...stopping for refreshments at the cafe!  Fully refreshed we carried on to Blackamoor and into Dore, where we had a well earned drink!

Botanical Gardens Visit

Angela organised a lovely and informative visit to the Botanial Gardens.  Very nice time had by all!

Gin Tasting - Porter Cottage

We had a great night gin tasting organised by Martin the landlord at the Porter Cottage Pub in conjunction with the Wine Rack at Sharrow Vale and James from the Pointing Dog and Trippers Lounge Bar. 
James was great, and gave us a very enthusiastic and honestly... educational talk on gin, and even those amongst us not into gin were converted! 

Sheffield Round Walk 4th June

Caroline kindly organised our 3rd Sheffield Round Walk where member's and their families can join for part or all of the 15.5 mile walk around Sheffield.

This year 27 took part, and 2 dogs, 9 people completed the full circuit.

The weather was good, staying dry until the last few miles and then brightening up again for the pictures at the end.

We enjoyed lunch in Endcliffe Park, ice-creams at Forge Dam, and a drink outside at The Norfolk Arms.

June Meeting - British Surnames

At our June members ran meeting, Roy Yates gave us a fascinating insight into the origins of British surnames.

The categories were Relationship, Occupational, Descriptive and Geographical.

These were then looked into further, linking with some of the surnames of WIER member's.

Roy then went through all of our surnames alphabetically, explaining the origin.

July Meeting - Jenny Robertson from 'The Corner'

 Jenny Robertson from 'The Corner' - a young people's substance misuse service came to tell us about the service, which the majority of us had not heard about. She gave us information about and quizzed us on our thoughts about drug misuse and the  myths and truths about them. The allocated one hour soon passed in a whistlestop blur of alcohol, inhaled, injected and ingested substances - legal and not so. 

Although Jenny has worked for the service for a number of years working with young people, families and friends, we were her first WI meeting. I think she enjoyed herself a much as we all enjoyed her talk. It was a fascinating evening, over all too soon but great to hear Sheffield has such a wonderful service.