March Walking and Garden groups
These two groups combined this month for a walk around Walton Gardens – for more pictures and information see the subgroup page.
Village Group Meeting – March
Nearly 70 WI members had a very entertaining evening with Jamie Sutherland, a professional comedian from Liverpool. He kept us all laughing all evening with his lively stream of jokes, refreshingly without the need for any bad language. He quickly tuned in to his audience, engaged with the front row by name, and picked out a couple of Whitley members (Sue and Ann) for special attention! The time flew by, and we had very good feedback . After refreshments we were entertained by a small group from Antrobus WI with a rhyme about being a WI member
March Book Club
At our March meeting Susan L led the discussion on The Marlow Murder Club by Richard Thorogood (Writer of ‘Death in Paradise’) Members found it light and entertaining, but without much depth. They gave it an average score of 7 – for further information look on the subgroups page.
March 2023 Main Meeting – A Welsh Evening
Our members were greeted at the door with a warm Welsh welcome from Annette, suitably attired in her Welsh costume and were given A Welsh Quiz to complete during the evening. Music from Welsh Male Voice Choirs and a Welsh harp set the scene and our members contributed to a beautiful display of daffodils – only just out in our gardens this year. Our Art group meeting in February had a Welsh theme, and some of their work was also displayed. After our usual business members were told about our planned May outing to Chester by coach, with a 2…
February Art Group
12 members of our Art Group met with a theme of ‘Daffodils’ or all things Welsh – an early taste of Spring and also to fit in with the ‘Welsh’ theme at our main March meeting. We had lots of daffodils, a leek, and an amazing Welsh dragon – see the subgroup page for more information and pictures
February Baking Beauties
Our February topic was Gingerbread People, trying out the recipe ready for the Cheshire show. For more information about our meeting have a look on the subgroup page.
Birthday Afternoon Tea – Feb 16th 2023
This year we decided to have a daytime social event to celebrate our birthday, rather than our usual celebration at our Main Meeting. We had a wonderful sociable Afternoon Tea with delicious refreshments of sandwiches and mini cakes made by our committee and a very tasty and beautifully decorated cake made by Ann O’Brien. Irene Robinson cut the cake, in recognition of the fact she has been a member of Whitley WI for over 70 years. We did have a short game of bingo towards the end of the afternoon but mostly just enjoyed the tea and the company –…
Book Club February 2023
At our February meeting Mary led the discussion about The Kindness Project by Sam Binnie. Members had a lively discussion and gave the book a score of 6.6/10 – for further details look on the subgroup page. Our next book is The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood.
February 2023 Main Meeting – Pet’s Pantry and Saving the Planet
Our President Melanie welcomed 35 members and 3 visitors. Our speaker was Karen from the local Pets Pantry. She gave an interesting talk on starting in business and how it has developed over the years. She then shared with us her experiences of a 3 month sabbatical in Laos and Thailand. We voted on the WI resolutions. Members were then informed of upcoming events, including a Birthday afternoon tea party, a May day outing, a holiday to Bletchley Park and Cambridge, an evening with comedian Jamie Sutherland, a couple of events learning new crafts and the group Spring lunch. The…
Baking Beauties – Jan 2023 – A Family Recipe
This month the topic was a family recipe. Nine members met to offer their recipe, some to honour a family member, others searched very old cook books for inspiration. This resulted in a variety of bakes including a luncheon cake dating back to 1899, egg custard, tea breads, apple cake, walnut bars, Anzec biscuits, meringues and sticky chocolate cake. We are keen to enter for the Cheshire show this year so we had some discussion about gingerbread as this is one of the classes. Jontyn spoke about the original gingerbread of Ormskirk which dated back to the 1800’s which was…