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Latest 'Fest' in Leicestershire

Friday 9th November 2007   Sally Bowie (Carr) was keen to hold a Fest in Leicestershire and went to great trouble to choose a suitable date – it would have to be after half term (Sally has two daughters at Tudor) and before the Christmas rush! Sadly a few prep schools had a late half-term, which threw her numbers slightly. Sally and Robin’s beautiful Grange, a short distance from Market Harborough, was a perfect venue not only for Leicestershire OTs but for those from Rutland, Nottinghamshire and Cambridgeshire. Her guests were of varying vintages and it was lovely to see mother and daughter OTs Susan Darby (Simonds) and Louise Newton (Darby) as well as Jo Riley-Smith (Farnsworth), Emily Eadie (Mortenson), Henrietta Bolton Carter, Vanessa Fairhead (Thornhill), Emma Leeming (Woodward-Fisher), Caroline Bird (Brankin-Frisby), Cags Gilchrist (Walker) and Lavinia Tomkins (Lowther). Sally had also invited Diana Muirhead who was delighted to meet up with many of her star netball players. It was a wonderfully relaxed lunch party, much laughter and reminiscing mostly about the years of Margaret Blyth and her inimitable style, the eccentricity of some house staff and the affection that they all had for Lavinia Jenkinson who used to teach French in the Golden Hind which is long gone but where the ‘new’ but now ‘old’ dining room used to be.	Sally Bowie
	Susan Darby thought to bring with her a photograph album with several splendid snaps of Tudor Hall Girl Guide Cadets a ‘Thinking Day Ceremony’ taken from the balcony of the old Gym (now the new library.) The 1948 York and Lancaster House lacrosse teams were also displayed in their full glory. A huge Thank you to Sally for hospitality and enthusiastic approach to the whole idea a ‘Fest’; she is already talking of holding another one inviting husbands. How brave is that?   SB