The Ladies Club has been established for 75 years in this village and still continues but with a much reduced membership.  It all began with ladies getting together for an afternoon with their young children and gradually, as the children all got older and went to school, it became more formal with people being elected to organise activities and speakers.  Many people have been in the club for 40 to 50 years but still love to come and enjoy a relaxing afternoon. The club has always met fortnightly from September round to July in the Church Room but because of reduced membership and the high cost of speakers' fees it has recently been agreed that the meetings will be once a month.  The dates of the meetings for this year will be advertised in the village magazine as they have always been and we will try to give as much detail as possible. We would love to recruit new members and if you feel you would like to just pop in to one of our meetings at 2.30pm on the advertised dates to see if you think you would enjoy them you would be most welcome. Our membership fee is £10 for the year and we ask for £1 at each meeting which covers your afternoon tea and a raffle ticket.  If you would just like to come as a visitor then we ask that you pay £2.  We have many talks that the chaps might like as well so please encourage your menfolk to come when you think it's appropriate. The programme begins on 22nd September with Jean Yates talking about Bedfordshire's Secret War and on 13th October Edwin Rye, who was the BBC Gardener of the Year in 2002, will talk about Colour in the Garden.  The A.G.M is on the 10th November when we might have a quiz also and on 15th December there will be a Carol Service.  The venue for the Carol Service alternates each year between the Church in Aston Abbotts and the Church in Cublington and the Rev. Siv Tunnicliffe usually officiates for us.  The service is followed by a delicious Christmassy afternoon tea.  In the new year we haven't arranged the whole programme but we always have a Spring Lunch in March, a special fund raising Coffee Morning in May, a Coach Outing will be organised in June and we finish the year with a Garden Party in July.  All the meetings in 2012 will be on the third Thursday of every month just to make things easier. Please look in your village magazine The Chronicle to see if any of our talks interest you and come along to join us.  You will be made most welcome and we look forward to seeing you.  If you need further information please contact me. April Email April