Competition – Adderbury & District WI Calendar – 2016
The Adderbury & District WI are putting together a Charity Calendar for local deserving causes. Unlike the infamous “WI Calendar” we thought we would showcase our fabulous village, with its history, beautiful gardens and chocolate box cottages. There will be a different photograph for every month passing through the year with seasonal pictures. With this in mind, we will have the Calendar ready for sale in September 2015. The Calendar will not only have photographs but will have the dates of special events through the year, including our Community Market, WI meetings, Party in the Park, the Annual Pantomine, Day of Dance and Christmas Market. We are looking for these special photos and thought it would be fun to have a competition open to young and old throughout the village. The final 48 photographs will be on display so that everyone has a chance to vote for their favourite. The prize will be not only your photograph being on the Calendar but a wonderful WI baked cake. Further details as to where to send your entries will be advised in next month’s Contact – (November). We hope you will not only support the creating of our Calendar but will purchase them for all your friends and family. Adderbury is a wonderful place to live, lets share it. Diane Danton –...
Read MoreThursday, 2nd October – Happenings Events and Future Activies – WI Meeting at The Institute
Pauline, standing in for Caroline, welcomed all members and one guest and reminded all to make sure they registered their attendance at each WI meeting, for health and safety reasons. The Minutes of the meeting held on Thursday, 4th September were approved as correct and signed by Pauline. Matters arising – Christmas Market – members were asked to add their name to the list for producers of goodies and/or as helpers for this event on Saturday, 29th November. Christmas Tree Festival – we are to decorate our tree from 1pm on 4th December. Virginia has suggested hanging decorated red lidded jam jars with various items appropriate for a WI tree. A group will be set up to agree a theme and make decorations and volunteers were invited to join orf lead this group. Christmas Meal Carrol Eaton displayed a sign-up sheet to record members choice of main course and dessert and to say if they will be able to help WI Calendar for 2016 – Margaret Halstead reported that four new members have joined the group for the Calendar and that matters are going well. Information is in the current edition of Contact and will be updated in subsequent months. Members were invited to “start snapping” seasonal shots “recognisable” as Adderbury and “Pauline thanked Diane and the group for their ex ellent work”. Charity fund-raising event for Frank Wise School – A swishing evening will be held in the New Year and open to all in the village and district; a group will be required to “develop” this event. Correspondence – A letter from the PTA at Christopher Rawlins School has been received, requesting help for their fund-raising fireworks display on 8th November at Bo-Peep Farm; a helper sign-up sheet for member’s names and telephone numbers will be passed to Caz Stokes. For the district meeting on 15th October, a volunteer was asked for to attend and give a brief report of the proceedings, at our next meeting on 6th November; further details would be provided by Caroline . Future activities – Sheila Pollard would lead the circular walk in Shennington and Alkerton on Friday, 3 rd October, followed by a pub lunch. The book group will meet on Wed. 8th October at Carda Traunero ‘s for Catherine Bailey’s book – “Black Diamonds”. The reorganised needlecraft group’s first meeting will be hosted by Maureen Banks on Wednesday, 15th October from 7.30 to 9 pm. Community items: January’s First Aid course is now fully booked and members need to give the £25 fee to Pauline as soon as possible. Places for the second course on 18 and 19 February are still available and members should get in touch with Debbie Dickinson to book. Bernice reminded members about the Quaker Meeting House open day on Sat. 4th October from 11 to 3 o’clock. An Open Day at Christopher Rawlins School on Thursday 9th October at 7.30 pm for those interested in learning more about Taoist Tai Chi ; a beginners course will begin on Thurs. 16th Oct. Bloxham Flower Club will present a Christmas-themed demo. at Blessed George Napier School on 20th November, with tickets at £8.00 Members were encouraged to continue to make contributions to the BYHP box – such help is always most gratefully received. Our next Adderbury WI meeting will be on Thursday, 6th November at 7.30 p,m at The Institute when Guest Speaker, Cymon Snow, will talk about Sulgrave...
Read MoreThursday, 2nd October 2014 – A Cookery Demonstration by Ali Templeton
Our Guest Speaker, Ali Templeton, gave a very lively and interesting demonstration of meat and fish-free meals, popular dishes for all the family, all quick and easy to prepare, cook and serve. Ali, her husband and their daughter, were all very relaxed, with a happy-chatty style, for the presentation of her three dishes. A mild-medium vegetable curry with smooth peanut butter to thicken, giving it a smooth silky taste and texture; delicious, very good and so quick to cook. Ali’s second dish of Kedgeree with Quorn, was based more on the original Indian Khichri containing no fish, rather being just a mixture of lentils and rice cooked with spices. Our English Kedgeree of rice with flaked fish, hard-boiled eggs, curry flavouring, butter, parsley and cream evolved from this original recipe. Ali’s recipe took only 20-35 minutes to cook and was another delicious meal to sample. Her third recipe was for an apple pudding of Caramelized Apple with orange butter sauce served with Creme Fraiche and crisp almond biscuits. Decidedly yummy and more-ish, a quick and easy pudding to put together and serve. All recipes came from Ali’s book – “Going Green” – “big flavours without meat” – of which I understand she made good sales to members, when we had all sampled her lovely three offerings! Her are some photo-shots of Ali’s Demonstration – Pauline gave the vote of thanks in which she commented “it’s really nice to see different dishes prepared, cooked amd presented”. Members gathered about Ali as she was packing things away, asking questions and chatting with friends and looking at Ali’s books. We had enjoyed a most successful cookery demonstration for our October WI meeting. ...
Read MoreThursday, 4th September 2014 – “Asparagus” by Julia Colegrave
For our first WI meeting after the summer break, a fascinating insight into the growth and culture of the English asparagus crop, with our guest speaker, Julia Colegrave, describing her successful, local area farming, of this wonderful vegetable, from her beginning first two and a half acres to the farm’s present successful, 50 acreage crop. Julia’s in-depth tale of the constant attention to detail, so necessary for the initial grounding of the plants, leading to the happy expectation of a ten to fifteen year’s good productivity from this first planting, was highly detailed. Of the picking, sorting, grading, packing and marketing stages, we learned all about the hard work Julia and her assistant, have endured over the years. Her burgeoning crop needed much more hands-on assistance than could be garnered from their nearby catchment area, so the farm found recourse to the employment of European workers its best and most worthwhile manner of providing the essential labour demanded by her successful asparagus production. With just one exception, all of her European workers have proved themselves to be more than worthy of being employed. A successful alternative farm crop, conjured out of a childhood memory of her mother’s dinner party asparagus rolls, Julia’s research interest created a life-long viability for a favourite gourmet veg and a highly successful business model for their family farm. Caroline’s vote of thanks for a most interesting talk included her reminiscences of a week spent at Julia’s asparagus fields, assisting with the harvesting, grading and packing and the resultant aches and pains associated with the highly intensive necessity of asparagus farming. The business content of the meeting concluded with a raffle prize draw with a first-prize, for just £1.00, of the £200.00 Denman Dip prize won earlier in the year by member, who sadly decided she could not take up the opportunity of a Denman course. After coffee and biscuits, the Denman Dip prize-winning ticket was excitedly won by Sally Babij with three other raffle prizes going to Jane Curness, our Treasurer Pauline and Caroline our President. A very interesting meeting and highly fascinating talk by Julia Colegrave provided a flying start to our autumn season of WI meetings, evenings and...
Read MoreAfter our August break – September 4th WI Meeting at The Institute at 7.30 pm
After a hot August break, we must al be looking forward to getting together for our September WI meeting. Our guest speaker is Julia Colegrave who will be telling us all about asparagus, and we have a full business programme of matters, events and happenings to discuss, to include Denman Dip, WI Calendar, a swishing evening, the Christmas market, the need for new committee members for 2015 and arrangements for meeting and passing on the WI Centenary baton on Sunday, 19th April 2015. A walk about Hook Norton is to be looked forward to and many other ideas have been discussed by the committee at its recent meeting, and more news about these activity ideas soon. We look forward to seeing as many members as possible on Thursday, 4th September, at 7.30pm at The Institute; we hope everyone has enjoyed August’s hot, summery weather – before the very wet August Bank Holiday weekend, of...
Read MorePimms in the Garden – Friday 1st August – Fosma Event for Adderbury
Unfortunately, I was not able to be present at The Old Vicarage on Friday, 1st August, for Fosma’s Pimms in the Garden event held by kind permission of Sir Peter and Lady Job and should be really delighted if some fortunate attendee would send me their photos to upload onto our WI website? In anticipation of some lovely photos, my thanks and best wishes…..Margaret
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