A tin of spam was just a step too far as our members recreated the 1940s in the village hall at this month’s meeting.. Wardrobes had been raided, charity shops trawled and vintage shops visited (too expensive) to bring the fashions of the decade to life. More poignantly still, precious family archives were revealed as …
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WI Newsletter – June 2010
Our members came in their colourful summer clothes and hats/fascinators to enjoy the hospitality of Jane & Julian Benson, who kindly allowed us to use their house and garden for this month’s meeting. The fine weather held, so once we had been updated on all that is happening in the WI, we were able to …
WI Newsletter – May 2010
May has seen us breathing in the heady scent of bluebells in the woods of St Mary Bourne, admiring Ted Heath’s house in Salisbury, feeling the beat of Hairspray at the Mayflower Theatre and serving bacon butties at the Village Plant Sale. After all this activity though, our May meeting was a more relaxed evening …
WI Newsletter – April 2010
Can you tell whether these flowers are real or not? They are not real, but have, in fact, been made from sugar-paste as demonstrated at our April meeting by Carol Razey from Penton Mewsey. Many years ago, Carol won a bursary at her own WI in Penton and took the opportunity to attend Denman College …
WI Newsletter – March 2010
We were certainly hoping for a touch of spring at this month’s meeting, but what we actually got, in the nicest possible way, was a veritable whirlwind in the form of Roger Savage from Choice Plants near Romsey. Roger had come to demonstrate the art of planting a hanging basket, and as his nursery is …
WI Newsletter – February 2010
Shrove Tuesday was in our diaries this year, as we had decided to organise a Pancake Morning in the Village Hall, following our success in 2007, although, of course, such success can never be guaranteed. Nevertheless posters were erected, emails and invitations sent and several of us turned up on the 16 February, to set …
WI Newsletter – January 2010
For those of us who like nothing better than settling down on a Sunday evening to immerse ourselves in the world of the inhabitants of Lark Rise & Candleford, then we were certainly in for a treat at our January meeting. John Owen-Smith has become an expert on the author Flora Thompson and for some …
WI Newsletter – December 2009
There is always so much else to do in December, we do not overload ourselves at this time of year. However, we still managed to walk and ventured a little further afield this time, strolling around the lanes and paths of Timsbury and Michelmersh, which made a very nice change, but there was no lunch …
WI Newsletter – November 2009
Thankfully our Reading Group was unaffected by the elements and able to meet as planned to discuss their latest literary selection, but unfortunately our monthly walk had to abandoned due to adverse weather conditions. After a week of very heavy rain, the forecast for the second Saturday in the month was for strong winds and …
WI Newsletter – October 2009
The Autumn meetings of both Danebury Group and Hampshire Federation take place in October and several of our members travelled to Grateley for the former on the first Monday of October, where they greatly enjoyed their evening. Any puns are purely intentional. A few weeks later and six of were to be found on the …
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