Well, we usually have some speakers and a fabulous buffet lunch catered by The Banqueting Table at our usual meeting place at St. Phillips Church but this year our wonderful executive folks have planned a virutal JA Day. They have also organised 9 other virtual meetings since everything shut down last April. The other day I received a program of events, a placemat, a bookmark, and a teabag (we actually usually have wine) in the mail. I really do admire all the effort so many people have taken to try to maintain some kind of normalcy in these crazy times.
Bookmark and placemat designed and printed by Joan Reynolds, one of our members. Great work, Joan!
The Banqueting Table is a non-profit catering company serving North Vancouver and the Lower Mainland since 1998. With passion and determination The Banqueting Table delivers the highest quality food and service for all occasions.As a social enterprise, The Banqueting Table provides employment opportunities to single mothers and women who wish to re-enter the workforce. Women learn job skills and regain self-confidence while preparing food and catering to a variety of events.Our aim is to teach food preparation and customer service while encouraging teamwork and fostering a positive work attitude. The Banqueting Table is a launch pad, encouraging the women on our team to explore their own interests and career paths when they feel ready to take that leap. We make educational scholarships available to our women each year.
And what would Jane Austen have to say about April Fool's Day? I've always had a problem with April Fool's Day as there seem to be too many jokes on the side of cruelty rather than good wit and humour that everyone can appreciate. I guess you might have to have the wit of Jane Austen to really pull it off.
This is from the "living, read, girl" blog:
Yes,it's April Fool's Day and who better to celebrate it with than Jane Austen,who loved amusing diversions as well as making sport of her friends and neighbors along with being lovingly mocked in kind?
