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…

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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…

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Our topic for this meeting was ‘A Magical Place’ as we hope to inspire some of our group to enter a piece of their work in this category for the Cheshire Show. A few of our group couldn’t make the meeting this month but 6 of us did discuss the theme, and Ann C shared a piece of work that she has already done. We looked at various ‘magical place’ pictures from the web and also some magical places in literature, to fit the Shows overall theme of ‘Once upon a time’. The group who were with us today struggled…

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The craft group had a great meeting in January learning about crochet work. Our old friend Joan Pattinson came along to share the many items that she had made over the last 40 years, including one of her very first projects. She had a wonderful display of different items – mats, toys, flowers and her latest project, a beautiful colourful bobble hat. She also had lots of books and magazines with some amazing pieces of work that we could aspire to! Joan had printed off some instructions for us all to follow and, ably assisted by Annette, she demonstrated how…

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Melanie thanked everyone who contributed to our very successful Christmas Party and Pat S was presented with a plant in thanks for the splendid buffet she provided. Future events include an Afternoon Tea on Thursday 16th February at 2pm in the Village Hall to celebrate our birthday. All are welcome, particularly those who find attendance at winter evening meetings difficult. Cheshire/National events this month include a weekly Pilates Zoom class on Saturday mornings, a craft workshop at WI house on Sat 25th March and a Zoom meeting for International Women’s Day on 9th March. Please contact Melanie for further details.…

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January 2022 The Winter Olympics – our 1st post Covid face-to-faceFebruary 2022 Dogs for GoodMarch 2022 Advanced DrivingApril 2022 Different Shades of Green – Care for our PlanetMay 2022 Special Queen’s Platinum Jubilee CelebrationMay 2022 Tigermuffin SoapsMay Outing Trip to ShrewsburyJuly 2022 Marbury Hall and ParkAugust Outing Knutsford tourSeptember 2022 September ShowOctober 2022 Gentle YogaNovember 2022 AGM and Mersey BeatDecember 2022 Christmas Party and Presentation to Irene – 70 yrs of WI

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