Party!

what a truly humbling experience it is to see first-hand greeted by fellow Exec members who threw me a little divorce party with a two-tier black cake. On the Saturday we got down to some hard work preparing for September's Council Meeting which ended in a few cocktails!

At the end of November, the Exec had their budget meeting. Numbers are not my thing - however, it was extremely interesting looking in fine detail into where we could possibly save the association money.

At the end of November, I attended Fiona's Christmas ball: WOW! Well done to Alice and Derek on pulling off an amazing night. You made Fiona's dreams come true.

At the September Council Meeting I sat at the table with other strong women, to discuss Circling business.

We then started filming for our membership recruitment video and it was extremely humbling to be able to hear first-hand why these women joined Ladies

In October I went to visit my parents in Australia and even video-called in to the Exec meeting at 3am Australian time - I must have been nuts!

In November, Fiona asked me to be one of the many women to march in the Remembrance parade in London. I was extremely honoured and glad my late Grandad got to see me on TV! In fact, during his last few weeks with us, he had a picture of me taken on the day, by his hospital bedside and told everyone about it.

I then took a break to spend some precious time with my Grandad before he passed. I cannot thank the Exec and Ginette May enough for all the support they gave me though this rocky time.

I just want to end my editor’s letter with a reminder that no matter what you are going through, you are not alone. Circle has taught me that it's OK to not be OK, so please reach out.

Stacey

Stacey Humphries - Editor