Our speaker for the last meeting of 2025 in December was Kevin Reynolds with a talk entitled ‘A wild Christmas’ describing how and why we associate certain animals and birds with Christmas. The next meeting will be on Tuesday 3rd February when we have Melanie Latham who will be demonstrating the making of chutney, and have some for sale, while telling the story of her work for Holly Cottage Preserves. Looking further forward to March, Jane Allison will be our speaker with a talk about wild flowers entitled ‘Take a walk on the wild side’, and will bring plants for sale from her own nursery.

Membership of the guild is £15-00 per year. We are pleased to encourage visitors (£2-50) to our monthly meetings, where you will be made welcome and be entertained by speakers covering a wide variety of interests. We have a light hearted competition each meeting for flowers or craft. Tea, coffee and biscuits are included, followed by a raffle to round off the evening. We meet on the first Tuesday each month at 7-30pm in Hopton village hall. For information please contact Jill Buss on:  01785 - 259808 or look out for our yellow monthly newsletter on local village notice boards.