Coming up for Melksham Seniors

GAMES, a cooking class and a blockbuster film   are all on the agenda for Melksham Seniors’ regular club meetings in the coming weeks.

First up is the Seniors’ extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on Thursday 31st May at the Riverside Club from 10.45am. At the meeting there will be a special event for members.

On Monday 4th June, the monthly ‘activity afternoon’ returns to the Forest Community Centre. The afternoon promises cards, dominoes, skittles, croquet, horseshoes, boules, a raffle and refreshments.

Organisers say, “The idea is that each month there will be one game that requires physical involvement and the other games are the sort that perhaps you played in your youth, or as a family.”

The cost is £3 and the sessions run from 1.30pm to 4pm, on the first Monday of each month.

Next up is a cooking class led by the organisation ‘Any Body Can Cook’ on Thursday 14th June at the Riverside Club from 10.30am to 12.30pm.

The afternoon is for anyone who lives alone and is looking for new ideas for recipes for one. ‘Any Body Can Cook’ will demonstrate how to cook some simple, nutritious and tasty food on a budget. This is a free event and anyone who attends will be given a free slow cooker to take home.

To book call 07825 223146 or email: enquiries@anybodycancook.co.uk

On Monday 18th June, the Seniors will be screening ‘The Post’, starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep at the Assembly Hall from 1.30pm.

The film’s synopsis says, “In 1971, following the public revelation of the Pentagon Papers, both the Times and the Post stood tall against an injunction, filed by the Nixon White House, to cease publication of the classified documents — an attempt at legal clampdown that could well have snuffed the Fourth Estate as we know it.

“‘The Post’ offers not so much a message as a warning – that freedom of the press is a fight that never stops, and that the force that keeps it going is the absolute die-hard belief in that freedom. When the press begins to accept restrictions, however grudgingly, it’s all but inviting itself to be muzzled.”