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Crafternoon: Every Third Saturday at 14:00, Beeston Methodist Church (£3)

An invitation from Joanne 

We don’t have any pictures for you this month, but we do have this invitation from our Joanne…

Come and join us at CRAFT GROUP on the third Saturday at 2pm! Bring your projects, something new perhaps, and ask any questions of our highly experienced crafters. Or just chat 

Please let me know if you will be coming (by commenting on Facebook) or by message. Beeston Methodist Church, Chilwell Road. £3.

Supper Club: Every Third Wednesday (19:00)

This Month: Lagan Indian Tapas, Beeston

From their website:

It was Suraj’s dream to open his own restaurant and now with the great success of the Mewar Haveli in Radcliffe on Trent, Suraj is now at Beeston looking to please all of the foodies that love their Indian cuisine. Although this restaurant is a tapas, being a branch of Mewar Haveli we ensure that our customer service and the quality of our food is second to none.

Our team is well experienced in cooking and serving the food from various five star hotels in different parts of the world. Chefs have travelled miles and miles of rural, urban India in search of traditional and home made cooking recipes. It is here at Beeston they will exhibit their talent of master cooking.

Presenting a twist to the typical fine dining Indian cuisine. With an elegant decor and a very modern themed design. The presentation will make you want to take a photo to show off to your friends, the taste will leave you speechless and the service will make you feel like family. The overall experience will leave you excited to come back for more!

Cafe Society: Every last Wednesday (14:00)

This Month: The Canalside Heritage Centre

From their website:

The tearoom is open seven days a week, 9.30am to 4pm.

Our menu includes sweet treats like freshly baked scones and homemade cakes, as well as lunch options such as jacket potatoes, a range of sandwiches, pasta pots and homemade quiches. We also serve a breakfast menu from 9.30am – 12pm which includes bacon and sausage cobs and scrambled eggs on toast.

There are also vegan and gluten free options available, please ask a member of staff and they will be happy to help with this.

Breakfast is served 9.30am – 12pm

Lunch is served 12pm – 2.30pm

Please note that the tearoom is very popular so we cannot guarantee all menu options will be available when you arrive.

We also offer gluten free and vegan options whenever possible. If you have any food allergies or intolerances, please speak to a member of our team and we will be happy to help.

The Hive WI Committee Meeting: Every Fourth Wednesday at 18:30 on Zoom

As a volunteer-driven organization, we rely on the time and talent of our members to make our events and activities possible.

We would love to have you on board!

If you’re interested in joining the committee or want to learn more about what it entails, please get in touch at thehivewi@gmail.com. We would be happy to answer any questions you may have. You can also sit in on a session to see what we’re about, with no expectation of you joining.

We hope to hear from you soon!

Book Club: Every Last Thursday at 19:00 on Zoom

This Month: The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees and the forthcoming novel The Book of Longings, a novel about two unforgettable American women.

Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.

Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.

Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.

As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements.

Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.

This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.