It's been great to see people out and about again as we gradually ease out of lockdown.  On Saturday we enjoyed some lovely sunshine in Wyming Brook valley on the Rivelin and Redmires walk. On Tuesday we walked around both the lakes at Roundhay Park and stopped to watch some very protective nesting swans! We were met with all kinds of weather during the walk – brilliant sunshine, snow and a hailstorm. We finished at the café for a takeaway drink, and some even braved an ice cream!

We’ve missed skiing this year, but we are excited to announce that Spice Yorkshire's 2022 ski trip is now available to book! We are going to the French resort of Les Arcs on 19-26 March 2022. Les Arcs is joined to its neighbour La Plagne in the huge Paradiski area, so there is lots of skiing. We’ll be staying at the Hotel du Golf, which is just by the main lifts in Arc 1800, so it has really easy access to the slopes. With over 200 red and blue runs, 32 black runs and an efficient lift system, it really is an excellent choice for intermediate skiers. There are plenty of places for après ski socialising too! I hope you can join us for what is certain to be a fabulous and fun week in the mountains. You can read about our holiday and book here!

It's exactly a year today since we held our first two online Spice events in our Zoom room, just a couple of days after the government first advised again non-essential travel, and five days before the first lockdown began. It was quite the culture shock for us, more used to going out to get together! Those events were a coffee morning and a quiz, and both were hugely popular with Spice members across the country. We continued with a great many more coffee mornings and quizzes, along with game shows, puzzles, pictionary, craft workshops, dance lessons, charades, hypnosis, cookery lessons, watch parties, book clubs, music lessons, discussion rooms, themed party nights, and our popular TSI Friday events have become a regular part of the programme, often continuing until the early hours. We celebrated Christmas in the summer, and again at Christmas! We did Summer Solstice, Yorkshire Day, Halloween, Bonfire night, New Year and Burns Night. We have celebrated St Andrew, St David, and last night, St Patrick. It's St George's turn next month! In a couple of weeks, we'll be celebrating Easter online for a second time. In fact, tonight's wine tasting will be our 635th Spice exclusive online event! The events have been so well received that we have already decided to continue with an online offering into the future. If you still haven't tried one, why not take a look at what's coming up?