Inaugural Meeting Update - 23 June 26

Friday 19th June began slightly nervously as final preparations for the very first Hook Veterans Club got under way.  For a variety of reasons this day had been a long time coming.  To be precise it had all started on 26th February at The Whitewater Health Veterans briefing.

Although we realised that these sort of ventures often started slowly, we weren't quite sure what to expect or how many people were likely to turn up.  Meeting at The Sue Hedges Memorial Hall we started to get the hall prepared for what might come.  Tables were unfolded and put in place, supplies moved to the kitchen and checked, and relevant decorations and pictures were put in place.

We thought that we had left plenty of time to be ready for the planned 09.30 start but we were very pleasantly surprised when the first attendee walked in around 09.20. He was quickly followed in by the next, and then the next.

Experience told us that we may be lucky if there were four of us at the first meeting, knowing that some people were travelling and therefore couldn't make it.  Imagine our surprise when we ended up with eight of us sat around a large table doing exactly what we had set out to do, having a chat, a bit of banter, a cup of tea and a doughnut .... or two!!