The ladies of Collieston & Slains SWRI met at the Newburgh Inn on Wednesday 25th February for a special dinner to commemorate their 20th Anniversary. After enjoying a delicious meal a small presention was made to former President May Irvine and current Press Secretary Alison Allen. The anniversary cake was cut by Mabel Irvine, attended by President Carol Proudlock and Treasurer Gail Procter.
But that wasn’t all!
The SWRI is no more – we are now to be known as the SWI. Ruth Chalmers read to us a poem she had written about the change
LONG LIVE THE RURAL!
So we’re told we’re no longer the Rural
Yet rural’s what we are
We stay in a place that’s rural
So who do they think they are?
oOo
These folk that go around changing names
And with no consultation at all
And it’s not to please the likes of us,
it’s to please themselves that’s all.
oOo
We live surrounded by fields and farms
A friendly wee school for our wee bairns
A kirk, a hall, a beach and a pier
And a summer gala every year.
oOo
We’ve a nature reserve to roam around
Where birds and flowers and deer can be found.
We’re not a bunch of townies here
With our sheep, cattle, crops, our beach and our pier.
oOo
And yet for the ‘R’ should we sadly sigh
As we’re now to be called just the WI?
We’re to lose the title we’ve loved so dear
We’ve always called it the rural here.
oOo
We might not have the most members
Our number’s barely plural
But we defy this change in name
And we’ll aye be called THE RURAL!!!
