WOMEN'S INSTITUTE -- Tractors, quad bikes, farm pick-ups, doubtless many Women's Institute members in Radnorshire don't turn a hair at driving any of these. But a lorry loaded to the roof? And 3,000 miles across Europe to Bosnia and back? This was the journey that Cherry Keylock, secretary, and classroom assistant at Clyro Primary School, recounted so entertainingly to an enthralled audience at Gladestry WI's May meeting. After a first test drive on the Rotherwas industrial estate at Hereford, Cherry was booked on the experience of being behind the wheel of a truck, and prepared to drive on of Humanitarian aid's trucks that was then five years age, setting off regularly to take food and supplies collected in Hereford and Hay-on-Wye to war-torn and poverty-stricken Bosnia. Both Humanitarian aid and the convoys are still operating. Sleeping in the lorry, as well as driving it by day, was part of the experience for Cherry and her friend and co-driver Tiny Clifford-Jones. Tiny slept across the front seats, and Cherry on top of the pallets of nappies in the back, her 'bedroom' only reachable by makeshift ladder. Other parts of their experience were 4.30am rising to try to get a shower as continental truck-stops before the 6am start, surly officials at border crossings who treated them as if they were spies or criminals, confiscation of passports, and what seemed like the ultimate disaster, the irreparable breakdown of one of the other trucks in their convoy of three, halfway up a steep hill somewhere in Slovenia. They did make it to Mostar in the end, but not before, thanks to the breakdown, they had found themselves in a village that had received no assistance previously, being welcomed with smiles, hugs and tears of gratitude they will never forget. Cherry had determined to keep a notebook of the journey, Tiny took photographs, and the result was: 'Right, said Dave, the story of Convoy 22,' which has made £1,500 for Humanitarian Aid and is still selling. After this amazing story, members really needed their refreshments to bring them back to day-to-day reality, to plans for their summer evening walk and August outing, and to attention to the competition and the draw. Hostesses were Margaret Lloyd, Heather Carrington and Sheila Watson, who was also the competition winner, and the draw prize went to Chris Kendrick.