There were 8 of us in my dining room on Sunday afternoon for an exploratory meeting on setting up a Transition Leytonstone Recycled Craft Group. One person didn't show up and one person had warned me she might not have been able to make it after a lunch-time meeting in Hackney (and with two main routes blocked locally and the diversion routes full of traffic as a result, even if she had finished her meeting on time, the bus journey likely to have taken ages!). So, instead of a few of us around the dining room table as planned, I had folded the table down and put out an oval of chairs gathered from around the house and out of the conservatory.
We are still feeling our way about we should/can/have the time and energy to do, but we have supported another "Make do and mend" event in September and are thinking of compiling a recycled craft directory for E11. Not sure this will work, but nothing ventured nothing gained. I will be hosting a second meeting at the beginning of June.
It was nice using some of the china I have collected over the years from charity shops and bric a brac shops. Normally I have only one or two visitors at a time and they just get handed their tea and coffee in the kitchen mugs, and my mother gets the same, very pretty, pink rose tea cup each time she comes because it's nice and large and she likes her tea and doesn't like it in mugs.
My tomato seeds on my office window ledge have germinated and I have 10 seedlings so far.
Well done on your meeting....as you said nothing ventured nothing gained! I hope it goes from strength to strength!!
ReplyDelete