Our April meeting started with an extremely amusing April Fools joke which had us in stitches of laughter but we were then put in a more somber mood by our president Jean Lewis who announced the sad news of the death of Cec Hewett, husband of our very popular ex- president Val. A wave of sympathy followed but then we had to get on with the business of the day.
The new programmes were distributed and promised talks on interesting and varied subjects. The committee had been re-elected with one new member serving. There were reports from the Special Interest Groups and many members supported the idea of forming a singing group.
We voted to increase our contribution to the ACWW to £150.00 for this year, the main project currently supported being the supply of clean water in Tanzania,
Two outing were planned for the summer; a visit to Dulwich Picture Gallery and also to Lord Carrington's garden at Bledlow.
Our speaker was Mr J. Howes on the subject of Glaciers,Geysers and Waterfalls in Iceland.
The waterfalls rival most other countries in terms of sheer power and raw beauty.
They range from wide river type waterfalls to tall narrow ones cleaving through huge volcanic cliffs. Nature has many faces on display here from geysers,thermal pools and hot sulpher springs to massive glaciers such as Vatnajokull which is by far the largest in Europe and a sight to behold. In fact Iceland's energy demands are met largely by geothermal heat.
The whole landscape has been sculptured by volcanos and lava formations. There is a big volcanic eruption about every five years. We all remember the ash from last years eruption which so disrupted air travel throughout Europe.
Birdwatchers throng to Snaefellness, the jagged peninsular in the NW, a rugged area of waterfalls, idyllic fjords and ice floes.
Mr Howes completed his talk with slides of the capital Reykjavic and some other smaller places with their charmimg traditional buildings.The meeting closed with a reminder that the next meeting will be on May 4th when the WI Resolutions for this year will be discussed.
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