Main Hall 1.30 - 3.30pm

The Giggle Patrol is for all our community, to gather together to enjoy some company. We could be in the kitchen making pizza or cake. Or maybe playing a game or sharing a craft, it’s up to you. All we ask is £2. We have no plan other than gathering together and seeing where it will organically go. BSL can also be used with one member of our team should the need arise. Helen is qualified at Level 3. 

We will be in the main hall at 1.30pm for two hours with some tea, coffee and biscuits and look forward to your company and lots of laughter. 

We look forward to seeing you, all are welcome!

Women’s Weight Lifting Club

Vicky with Tropic Skin care.

We had Natalie a few weeks ago we know, but some missed it. It was so good we thought we’d do it again. Can’t have too much of a good thing can we?

Kylie @ Essex Home Help Service

With all the beautiful poppies we have so far we thought it would be an idea to start sewing them into the cargo net. Soooooo here we go! 

What a lovely birthday we had.  Thank you to all who joined us!

1st British Sign Language Class. Introductory Class

Please bring a note book and pen with you to take notes that you may need as we go along. 

This will be ongoing throughout the Giggle Patrol sessions to help us with our conversations and communication with each other. 

I will be inviting members of the Deaf community and fluent BSL signers to join us as we go along and we will play games together to incorporate the language into our everyday life. I hope you will enjoy this as much as I do. 

Much love Helen

A relaxing afternoon, doing word searches, knitting, crochet and sipping tea. Helen attempted to use the projector to explain certain stitches for crochet. She bought some yarn and her stash of hooks for us all to have a go. We were lucky to have some talented crocheters among us to help with the learning. Thanks everyone for such a lovely afternoon. 

What a wonderful day we had with Dee; Quilling. Have a look at her Facebook page to see all the wonderful things she does. There was a lot of twiddling, fiddling and giggling going on. Why not come and have a go and try something new. Or just come to watch and have a cuppa and a chat! 

It’s lovely to see that the Gigglers are Giggling. We had a big laugh today playing loads of silly games bought to us by our Carol (without an ‘e’). I forget the names of the games but they included lip reading, chirades and team participation with a guess three words. All washed down with some lovely refreshing lemonade. (Perhaps we should contact the ice cream man to come next week?)

Our newest Giggler, Julie, showed us how to do line drawing. 

A lovely class presented by the beautiful Julie White. She offered us all a chance to try line drawing. So relaxing and so achievable even if it did start out looking like a boobie. The line drawing of a dandilion clock looked really classy and we all went home with a card to give to someone. Interesting chatter and drinks on a warm summers day, we were even treated to a cheeky beer. (A one time only offer 🤣) so refreshing. Next week a few requests. We thought a nice natter and some games maybe?

We had our first Giggle Patrol today and was overwhelmed at the turn out. We had a giggle learning about each other with the task given by Lin to find out about the nicest thing about person to the left of you. Then we had to tell the group about that person. We had Kind, fantastic friend and many more (My apologies I can’t remember them all) And someone keeping their husband busy at home by breaking everything🤣

We were then asked to tell about one job we had had.  We found there were mushroom pickers back in the day, that were grown in hot manure. Oh the smell! We have ladies who worked in the bank and a teacher. Two IT technicians. A solicitor’s typist. We had a flautist, someone who had grade 1 recorder, and a singer too  

We wondered, what should we do next week. Helen mentioned she would bring in her crochet. Give those that were interested a go by bringing some hooks and yarn. 

So until next week… keep safe, have a think about what you want to do. If you do. If not just have a chat!