It was wonderfully fitting that Brian chose to challenge himself by walking into his Dyscover session last week – the discussion topic for the session was ‘Greatest Achievements’ and Brian, who is normally in a wheelchair for his Dyscover sessions, demonstrated to his fellow members his determination and fortitude, and was greeted by rapturous applause from the rest of his group!
One of the joys of Zoom is when members are able to share items spontaneously during conversation. Several Tues Zoom members have been sharing stories of their successful crops of fruit and vegetables. Geoff has had 500 tomatoes growing all around the house, so many they’ve had to give lots away! Sam shared some samples from her bountiful harvest of pears while Geoff showed off one of his Cox apples and everyone traded ideas for how to use them!
It was lovely to see everyone back in the Thursday morning group, chatting about their Summer breaks and comparing notes on the sunflowers they’d grown in Dyscover’s Summer term project. John proudly displayed the huge 13in-wide flowerhead of his sunflower which had grown to 7ft 3in! Tony showed the members some beautiful photos he’d taken of his sunflower too. What a wonderful project it has been and members have really enjoyed charting and sharing the progress of their plants from seedlings to fully grown flowers over the term.
We loved hearing about what all our members got up to over the summer break in our sessions last week and were particularly pleased to hear of members (sometimes with volunteers) who’d met up independently of Dyscover for pub lunches, swimming and to watch the cricket. Thurs AM member Nick told his group about a fun outing to the Oval with members Bryan and John and volunteers Jim and Barry. Thanks to Jim’s organisation, the group had a thoroughly enjoyable day watching a 50 overs game of cricket between Surrey and Kent and took afternoon tea in the members restaurant.
Kingston members shared some lovely stories about some of their greatest achievements in our session this morning: Kevin described how he’d built a Durlton kit car, Deena talked about becoming a nurse and Sukhraj shared this beautifully crafted wooden cup which he’d made himself. It was a wonderful positive session and lovely to hear of the determination, bravery and talents of our members.
