CLUB NEWS The Yetminster & Ryme Garden, Arts and Craft Society 17 August 2019 was a memorable day for Yetminster and the Garden, Arts and Crafts Society. It was the day of the Summer Show. The sun shone, the hall was resplendent with bountiful vegetables and flowers and the local artists, photographers and crafts folk excelled themselves. Open to residents of Yetminster and neighbouring villages made it a genuinely local event that brought the community together. It left us all looking forward to the next year. Well, we all know what happened. When lockdown was announced last March, we never imagined that come August we would still be unable to meet. In the end the 2020 Summer Show became one of the myriad small casualties of the pandemic. But what about 2021? No-one can say with any certainty what is going to happen over the next few months but as the vaccination drive continues, we can hope. The date for this year’s Summer Show is set for Saturday 21 August and we are planning to make it a bumper event.
We have decided to roll over the programme we published last year because we know that many of you had already started work preparing for the event. This means your hard work will not be wasted. We are re-publishing the schedule now for the arts, photography and craft work classes so that there is plenty of opportunity to prepare entries. After all, we all have time on our hands and this gives us something positive to aim for. This applies equally to our gardening enthusiasts. With so much rainy, dreary weather, it is difficult to imagine that our gardens will once again be bursting into life, but spring is on the way and now is the time to think ahead and to get those seed packets out. The Summer Show relies on your efforts, enthusiasm and expertise to ensure that the 2021 event really does us all proud.
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