theWI Addderbury & District WI – Tea Rota 2015 – 2016 – Wednesday, 20th May 2015
ADDERBURY & DISTRICT WI TEA ROTA MAY 2015 – MARCH 2016 MAY – Sheila Nichols Sally Babij Janet Morgan JUNE – Jan Robinson Val Adams Carda Traunero JULY – Pat Smith Pauline Leathers Jane Curness SEPTEMBER – Audrey Brunton Anne Neal Tina St John Stevens OCTOBER – Lilian Bryan Chris Busby Su Lutter NOVEMBER – Sandra Fearne Anne Davis Jane Fletcher 2016 JANUARY – Debby Dickinson Christine Shilling Sheila Nichols FEBRUARY – Rosemary Mullett Mary Quinlan Enid Frost MARCH – Lynn Simcox Anne Golby Val Scarff IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO DO THE DATE ALLOCATED TO YOU PLEASE RING LAURA 07583...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – Meeting Swishing Event – Thursday, 7th May 2015
Following on from our business meeting and Resolution discussion “Failing to Care” we had our social event – a Swishing opportunity for accessory items. Each member could bring up to five items and for each one you were given a ticket to exchange for one of the items brought in by another member. During the evening there was time to inspect the handbags, scarves, belts and jewellery brought in, all beautifully laid out on separate tables, and when all the business matters for the evening had been attended to, members were able to make their choices in exchange for the tickets given. One item for one ticket. And if you have not brought in any items to exchange but had seen something you had liked then, when all tickets had been swapped for an item, a member would have been able to buy that item for £1.00 There was a good turnover of accessory items brought in and taken home and, at the end of the evening, those items not chosen or required for other events, were put into a charity box for distribution via one of our local charitable outlets. Members had enjoyed a glass of wine, hot coffee or tea and the pick of some delicious cakes and biscuits. It was a highly entertaining evening and here’s a few photos of the occasion… handbags and scarves Margaret...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – Minutes of the meeting held at Church House – Thursday 7th May 2015
Minutes of the meeting held at Church House, Adderbury 7 May 2015 7.30 pm The President welcomed 30 members and 1 guest to the meeting Apologies are recorded in the register. Minutes of the meeting held on 2nd April 2015 were approved as a correct record and signed by Diane. North Cherwell Group Meeting: 10 members attending this meeting on 22nd April at Bodicote where the new area Advisor, Stella Oakes, was introduced. The retiring Advisor was thanked for all her hard work and support over the years and presented with a gift. The speaker for the evening was unable to attend however, members were entertained with readings of love stories from books, interspersed with appropriate songs. Wild Flowers: 60 packets of seeds have been received. Bodicote and Barford WIs were each given 2 packets. The rest have been planted at Katharine House Hospice to create a wild flower garden. It is hoped that they will be in flower for their open garden on 7th June. Matters arising: Position of Treasurer: Chris Shafe has kindly agreed to take on this role and was thanked by the President. News & Views: copies have been ordered for all members Denman College: Chris Shafe reported on her recent photography course at Denman College. She encouraged members to look at what Denman has to offer and stressed that courses are open to anybody, not just WI members. Nothing to report Fundraising: Adderbury WI will be having a stall at Party in the Park on 20th June. Volunteers to man the stall and to bake cakes are asked to sign the list. Cakes should be taken to the field on the day or to Touchwood, Berry Hill Road, the day before. Correspondence /Communications: Programme: the President thanked Caroline for her hard work in getting the programme printed. Members were asked to take a copy. School fete: 13th June. Adderbury WI will be having a ‘jar tombola’ stall. Jars to be filled and wrapped and taken to the June meeting. Volunteers needed to man the stall. Future activities: Bluebell walk at Ditchley Park 12th May. Meet at the Institute at 9.30am, dogs welcome but must be kept on a lead. The book group will meet at 7.30 on 13 May at Tricia’s house to discuss ‘Some Luck’ The needlecraft group will meet at Maureen’s at 7.30 on 13 May. Visit to Sulgrave Manor 28 May, £9 to be paid today. Leave the Institute at 6.30pm. Farm Supper 25th June, courtesy of June Stilgoe. Supper to be preceded by a walk at 6.00pm. Families welcome. 9. Community Items: Mikron Theatre: 13th August at The Pig Place. This production will be about the WI. Highgrove: Debby reported on the Gardening club’s recent visit to Highgrove. A further outing to Highgrove is being arranged for some time in August or September, cost about £45 to include coach and tour of the garden. The gardening club have visits to Wychwood Pottery (9th June) and Avondale & Ryton gardens (13th July) organised. Bloxham Flower Club: open meeting 21st May at BGN 7.30pm with a demonstration by Julia Mitchell. FOSMA: poetry evening 7.30pm 8th May, £6. Bring along a poem. Visit to Waddesdon Manor 5th June, £15 National Trust members, £28 non NT members Adderbury Market: next market 14th May in the Institute. Village Coffee: every Friday 10.00 – 12.00 Church House AOB: NFWI raffle tickets available £1 each. Adderbury & District Facebook page: Margaret puts WI items onto this page Following refreshments, members discussed the resolution that is to be debated at the national congress. It was generally agreed that...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – Meeting Future Events & Happenings – Thursday 7th May 2015
Fosma Poetry Evening at Church House – Friday 8th May – bring a poem or two with you for a lovely evening. Children’s Society Coffee Morning at Church House – Saturday 9th May – 10 – 12 noon – plant and cake stall and £ stall Bluebell Walk at Ditchley Park – Tuesday 12th May – meet at The Institute 9.30am – no styles,reasonably simple walk 1.1/2 – 2 hrs. Needlecraft Group meet – Wednesday, 13th May – Maureen Bank’s home at 7.30pm Reading Group meet – Wednesday 13th May – Tricia’s home at 7.30pm for “Some Luck” by Jane Smiley Adderbury Community Food Market at The Institute – Thursday, 14th May – 6 – 8.15pm Friday Morning Village Coffee – Church House 10 – 12 noon – money raised to Church House and Church – excellent cakes Gardening Club Plant Sale – Church House – Saturday 16th May – 10 – 12 noon Bloxham Flower Club Open Evening – Blessed George Napier School – Thursday 21st May – tickets from Veronica Scriven contact on 01295 812642 – £8.00 – plus future dates News & Views for May – Green Card notices at meeting – details on separate Future Events post School Fete – Saturday 13th June – 12 midday start – sign-up sheet for help and filled/covered jars to June meeting Party in the Park – Saturday 20th June – 2-5pm – sign-up sheet for help and cakes at meeting Evening Visit to Sulgrave Manor – Thursday 28th May – £9.00 pp to May meeting and some places still available Farm Walk and Supper – Thursday 25th June – 6.00pm – sign-up sheet at May meeting The Mikron Theatre – The Pig Place – Thursday 13th August – subject The WI – sounds good fun Adderbury Gardening Club – future visit to Highgrove Hall – sign-up sheet for Aug/Sept. – cost dependant on coach Waddesdon Manor – Friday 5th June – £28.00 non-National Trust member, £15.00 for members – bring cards WI Centennial Fair, Harrogate – details in News & Views – or call 0844 644 3644 / www.thewishow.com Blenheim Food Fair – 21 – 23rd May Margaret Halstead –...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – “Home Fires” ITV Sunday, 3rd May 2015
Dear Ladies, Were you watching “Home Fires” based on Julie Summers book “Jambusters” on Sunday, 3rd May? Did you record the whole series of six programmes to be screened over the next five weeks and did you enjoy ITV’s presentation? It was good wasn’t it? Until I had started reading “Jambusters” I had not realised just how much jam had been produced or how it’s production had been controlled by government regulations and regular government inspections. The jam was made from the wonderful harvest of 1939, and following years, which might otherwise have been wasted, falling on the ground and rotting; that the enormous amount of WI jam added flavour and nutrition, in the form of sugar, to the restricted war-time diet and a real contribution to the food supply available. Fruit was turned into chutney as well as jam and preserves and members bottled, canned and preserved throughout the season, enabling fruit to be kept and stored for the dark days ahead. Did you know that the American Federation of Business and Professional Women gave six canning vans to the WI containing all necessary equipment for the production of fruit. Ref: Jambusters by Julie Summers – photo section between P. 164 – 165 And of course, all of this fruit gathering, boiling. potting-up, canning and preserving was just another chore WI members had to contend with, alongside their own chores, family commitments and other war-time activities – like knitting and… Have you read “A Force to be Reckoned With – a History of the Women’s Institute” by Jane Robinson? Until I’d started reading this book, I had little real knowledge about the WI’s beginnings, which took place in Canada in 1897, at Stoney Creek, when Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless addressed a Ladies Night meeting and talked about the need for girls and women to be taught domestic science. Did you also know that in England around this time, there were Women’s Institutes already meeting of a very different nature to their Canadian prototype? One set up by Mrs. Nora Wynford Phillips in London, a “suffragist and keen campaigner for equal opportunities for professional women in their workplace.” Another WI group in 1913, concerned with adult education and “run by the London County Council and linked to a working men’s institute for education.” There were about thirty such groups in deprived areas as Hackney ,Brixton, Battersea, Deptford and Borough with classes in domestic and health subjects. That in the London home of Lady Cowdray early in 1915, a show was organised, which included live farm animals wandering about, to showcase “what women have done and can do in agriculture”. Her daughter was Lady Gertrude Denman – who became the WI’s National Chairman during the early days of WWI. Then I was fascinated to read online that Mrs. Alice Liddell who as a child inspired the creation of the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, became the first President of Emery Down Women’s Institute close-by her home in the New Forest where, as Mrs.Reginald Hargreaves, she was known as a noted society hostess and mother of three sons. Margaret Halstead Ref: all information discovered in “Jambusters” by Julie Summers and “A Force to be Reckoned With” by Jane Robinson and from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for the Adderbury & District WI’s...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – North Cherwell Group Meeting, Bodicote – Wednesday, 22nd April 2015
Adderbury & district WI was well represented at the North Cherwell Group meeting on Wednesday, 22nd April, with the meeting opening to a fine rendition of Jerusalem, ” which was very moving. I for one could not remember all the words, not having sung “Jerusalem” for some time so therefore was very pleased when on the following day, St. George’s Day, 23rd April 2015 , Wigginton and Haxby WI posted for St. George’s Day and Shakespeare’s Birthday – “Wigginton and Haxby WI Thursday, 23rd April 2015 – St. George’s Day and Shakespeare’s Birthday – “Tis April 23rd Happy St George’s Day And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England’s mountains green And was the holy lamb of God, On England’s pleasant pastures seen! And did the Countenance Divine, Shine Forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills? Bring me my bow of burning gold; Bring me my Arrows of desire; Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold: Bring me my Chariot of fire! I will not cease from Mental flight, Nor Shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, in England’s green & pleasant land. Margaret Halstead We sang Jerusalem at our North Cherwell Group Meeting on Wednesday, 22nd April and it was amazing – for Adderbury & District WIBodicote WI, Deddington WI, Barford WI and Banbury WI – I am WI and very proud to be a member of our brilliant, contemporary and forward-looking women’s movement xxx” Ref: Wiggintgon and Haxby WI FaceBook post on Thursday, 23rd April. 2015, for St. George’s Day and Shakespeare’s Birthday. The Group Meeting proceeded with brilliant addresses by all principal parties and last year’s Minutes were read out and signed as correct. After the business section, we had an amusing anthology of verse and song – “Letters and List” – and then we were invited to partake of Bodicote’s most wonderful cold table. Bodicote are renowned for their members’ hospitality. Raffle prizes were won and Bodicote’s Village Hall, packed with members from all of North Cherwell’s Group WI’s – Deddington, Barford, Adderbury, Bodicote and Banbury – hosted an excellent North Cherwell Group Meeting. Margaret...
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