Happy Easter from NWR - National Women's Register

Happy Easter from NWR
It is an unusual Easter, to be sure, but we hope that you enjoy what promises to
be a lovely, sunny, bank holiday weekend at home.
I have included a couple of interesting links for the bank holiday weekend as
well as details of our first live 'digital' speaker!

Contents
1. Live Digital Speakers
2. Easter Quizzes
3. Andrea Bocelli link

Live 'digital' speakers are here!

Many of you asked for speakers, whether interactive or recorded, in the survey
of how NWR can help during the Covid-19 pandemic. I have been working on
this extensively this week and have a number of options lined up for the next
few weeks.
I am planning for these sessions to be delivered live using Zoom, with the
recordings to be available on the website shortly afterwards. We are restricted
to 100 people for the live sessions so will be taking bookings via Eventstop, as
we would for a normal event. In order to use this system, which has a minimum
booking fee level, we will have to charge 50 pence for each booking.

Our first speaker will be Ruth Badley, whom you can read more about below.
Ruth will speak at 4pm on Thursday 23rd April and booking is open now.

If you have any questions for Ruth please do let me know before the session
and I will ensure that we answer them!

Booking for Ruth Badley

Ruth Badley is one of our newest NWR
members who, due to the pandemic, has
yet to attend her first, eagerly anticipated,
meeting.
She graduated from the Central School of
Speech and Drama in 1978 and taught in
secondary schools in London before
moving to South Australia, where she
worked in adult migrant education,
specifically with Vietnamese and
Cambodian refugees.

Later she pursued a successful second career as a journalist and was the arts and food
writer for Ackrill Newspapers, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire for many years. She currently
runs her own public relations and freelance writing consultancy, providing results-driven
public relations and marketing services for businesses and corporations in the geospatial
industry.

Her blogs encompass food, travel, literature, visual and performing arts, live music and
Bruce Springsteen. Ruth sits on the judging panel of the UK’s Quality Food Awards and
the Great Taste Awards. Ruth wrote and directed Just Playing for Dubai’s Short and Sweet
Theatre Festival in 2016.

Ruth will be speaking about Where are the grown-ups? which is her first novel:
It’s never too late to say sorry. A whispered family tragedy ripples across three
generations in this coming of age mother and daughter story. Sylvia is dying and
her daughter, a British expat living in Dubai, recalls her childhood and the confusing
relationship she had with her mother. After Sylvia’s death, she searches for
explanations amongst her mother’s possessions, prompting uncomfortable
childhood memories and clues to her mother’s sadness. The story moves back to
London’s Jewish East End in 1930, where Rose is expecting a baby. When the

natural order is disrupted, and part of our personal history is erased, who do we
become?
'As children we assume our parents are perfect and complete creations, but mums
and dads will inevitably misbehave, test the boundaries, make mistakes, stamp their
feet and shed tears before they become the men and women they need to be.'

Easter Quizzes!
There are 7 rounds of an Easter quiz below - all answers (along with those for
all quizzes this fortnight) will be in my next full newsletter.
Good Luck!

                               Easter Quiz Round 1

                               Easter Quiz Round 2

                               Easter Quiz Round 3

Easter Quiz Round 4

     Easter Quiz Round 5

     Easter Quiz Round 6

     Easter Quiz Round 7

                 Music for Hope
                 I am sure that many of you enjoy the
                 music of Andrea Bocelli. He will be
                 live streaming a concert from the
                 Duomo di Milano at 6pm on Easter
                 Sunday - the link is below

Andrea Bocelli - Music for Hope

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