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Welcome to new members -

Terry Foley Lucy and Nigel Bates

Noreen Cook

Noreen was a very loyal Club member for 31 years, becoming an Honorary Member in 2000. She was also a very active Committee Member for over 20 years, holding the posts of Secretary and then Social Events Organiser, in this latter role she organised many successful Summer Balls. She was also very reliable and could be counted on to do her fair share of Committee jobs in the Clubhouse and also had some very good ideas for coach trips which were always a great success. She was also very clever at finding somewhere new to go, like little villages where we could buy reasonable leather goods, with a good Venta for lunch. I still have some beautiful leather gloves from a leather workshop still like new but they have visited London on many a Christmas trip. Noreen was sadly missed when she gave up her work on the Committee and she was definitely a larger than life figure in the Club. This photo is of Noreen at one of the last events she attended at the Club, a Moroccan Evening. Submitted by Joan Thompson

Message from Wilma Keeley

Dear Mrs. Sue Potter—Outgoing President, I wish to thank you so very much for the honour you have given me to become an Honorary Member of our ICE Club. I was so shocked and choked, that I was unable to thank you there and then. Please forgive my rudeness of not thanking you at the appropriate time. I will, of course, carry on to be available for any translating and organising medical assistance. Wilma.

REFLECTIONS OF ‘ICE’ Garden Club

Sandy Avis has been organising the Garden Club since 2012.

Over the years, she has very much enjoyed running it. She told me “Its all been a pleasure and I have been touched by the personal feedback from members, but I feel it is time for someone else to step in - to bring some fresh new ideas, find different locations. I am delighted that Alan Lucas will be taking over from me.”

Here are some of Sandy’s memories . Ed.

The monthly meetings from March to October have always produced interesting gardening tips, shared problems, great suggestions, plus plants and cuttings to offer or exchange with others. There were also several meetings hosted by club members in their own beautiful gardens and one enterprising member produced films by Monty Don on the Club's TV. The club has travelled to some fascinating garden locations and many ICE members have joined in, helping to make these events very sociable.

Molino del Santo Benaojan (above right) just 10 minutes from Ronda -a delightful train journey from San Roque to Benaojan, a scenic journey passing lots of pretty stations all with their flower pots and window boxes. Lunch is served on the hotel terrace alongside a mountain stream. The Orchid House Estepona (right)-with its three glass dome structure containing 5,000 exotic plants and spectacular displays by its enormous waterfalls.

Molina de Inca Botanical Garden Torremolinos (left) -a hidden gem with its incredible gardens, fountains, Japanese Garden, pools of fish, wandering wildlife, huge maze, so much to see. Sandy’s own special plant or flower is, not for its beauty but more for its rarity, the Rose Of Jericho. It looks like a dried brown ball, but when placed in water opens up. There is no colour, and when taken from the water dries up again. Herstory goes that on the dry landscapes of Israel Jesus came across the green leaves and flowers of the Rose of Jericho, drank some dew and blessed it. The rose dries up and breaks free and rolls like tumbleweed. It is considered to be a talisman for prosperity and peace. Merchants would pay large sums of money to possess one. What is so fascinating is that it will never die but outlive us all. Sandy has one of these fascinating plants and has demonstrated it to the Garden Club.