The first part of the meeting was our AGM. Pat presented the financial position and Susan gave us the Annual Report, illustrating her talk with various pictures taken during a busy year of activities. Melanie was confirmed as our President for 2024. On behalf of our 56 members Helen H thanked Melanie, the committee and the subgroup leaders for everything they do. Annette, our craft guru, then showed us how to make a Christmas Bauble. With the help of Craft Group members she had prepared individual ‘kits’ with a polystyrene ball, pre-cut fabric pieces and other accessories. There was a…

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There has been lots going on this month. Click on the links below to find out what we have been doing, and to have a look at some more pictures of our activities Book Club discussed ‘The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan Walking group chose a lovely Autumn day to walk around Neumann’s Flash in Northwich Scrabble group enjoyed an sociable evening Craft group finished off their Remembrance Poppy display Art group had a go at making their own Christmas Cards Baking Beauties had a ‘ Halloween and Bonfire Night’ theme

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The Village Group Autumn meeting was held at the Milner Institute at Moore Members were entertained by Alison Neil portraying the author E Nesbitt in her own one woman drama. The audience were drawn into this amazing lady’s interesting life, quite bohemian in parts and definitely ground breaking in writing books specifically designed for children to read themselves.

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Two of our members, Annette and Jean, attended this event, organised by CFWI at Crowton Village Hall. You can see more information and pictures on the Craft Subgroup page – click to see this

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We returned to our tradition of letting our Committee take a well earned break and a group of members took over for our October meeting. Names were drawn in June and the team of 10 people did a fantastic job in running the meeting and providing a very memorable evening. Entertainment took the form of a Morris Dancing evening, with singing and dancing by the ‘Earl of Stamford’ Group. Our members did not need a great deal of encouragement to join them for the last 2 dances, waving our handkerchiefs and banging our sticks like experts! Helen H took on…

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After our August break, it was good to be back enjoying our sub-group meetings, though the Walking group took its break during September rather than August. The Book Club had a complete change and discussed poetry and individual’s favourite poems. The Scrabble group enjoyed a game and a chat and the Craft group met in Susan’s garage rather than the Village Hall as they were working on their November poppy display, which involved rather a lot of red paint! Ann C showed the Art Group how to use the ‘grid’ method to reproduce a picture. Baking Beauties took a break…

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The speaker at our September meeting was Stephen Shakeshaft – a Blue Badge guide to Chester. He gave us a very informative talk about the city – particularly interesting as Whitley WI had a visit to Chester for our May outing this year. Many of us know about the well published features of our local historic city, but Stephen gave us an insight into some of the lesser known areas. From rare ‘sedan porches’, 700 year old architectural features on the Cathedral grounds, and the hidden half of the largest Roman amphitheatre in Britain, he opened our eyes to the…

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20 members gathered for our summer garden party – many thanks to Ann Cookson for her hospitality. The weather was kind to us and we had a lovely sociable afternoon, with a delicious ‘shared table’ buffet. Thanks to members for donations of raffle prizes, the money raised from this went to cancer charities.

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Following our tradition the August meeting was replaced by an evening outing. Melanie had organised a trip to ‘Meet the llamas’ at Hillview Farm in Bradley. The weather was kind to us in this unpredictable summer and about 20 members wandered across to the fairly dry paddocks where we had a lovely warm welcome from Richard and his assistant Jason. Richard told us about how his ‘hobby’ began and gave us lots of fascinating information about his herd and how he links in to fellow llama breeders in America and enters his best llamas in virtual shows around the world.…

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8 of our members attended the annual Literary Lunch at Hartford Golf club. The whole event, for over 160 ladies, had been masterminded by our own Pat Sharp and it was a great success. Local author Sally-Anne Martyn shared her development as an author and her journey into the world of publishing. With some humour Sally-Anne confessed that she enjoys developing the dark side of any story and her first published novel, ‘The Clinic’, is a dark psychological thriller. One of our members read this book over a couple of days just after the event– she just couldn’t put it…

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