The cat sat on the mat...

You wouldn’t believe what goes on in the filthy minds of WINGs ladies. Asked why , when 2 cats on mats were separated by a front door, one looked happy and the other looked grumpy, one response was that one of the cats was in heat. Not what you expect from the W.I.

We had loads of fun tonight with pics of scary monsters, and smiley happy little boats and their friends and learned a bit about why not to marry a children’s illustrator if you want to make sure your mortgage gets paid! Many thanks to Thomas Docherty http://www.thomasdocherty.co.uk/ for sharing the secrets of his trade with us, and allowing us a little bit of playtime as we drew our own illustrations for what can now be our now secret catchphrase ‘Eating beans on toast makes me happy!’ 

Clare Blackwell gave us an update on the proposed new area in Keynsham around the library and clock tower having been coerced into giving up an afternoon of her time to go and attend some workshops and consultation exercises on our behalf. And Sandra Parfitt shared her experience of a W.I. day out at the Winter Gardens in Weston at the Avon Federation AGM. (top tip – don’t go to the pier for your afternoon tea – the tea shop’s closed)

In other news.....


Less than a fortnight until Spring Fair. Get in touch if you still think you can make a contribution or if you have time to do some leafleting in your street or area. We will be at the Fear Hall from 9.30am on 16th April if you want to drop anything off. If bringing cakes, please bring a plate or something to display them on.


Money for clay shoot due next month - £25 per person please. If you’re not going to be at the meeting but still want to go on the shoot, let me know and we’ll have to make other arrangements for passing the cash.


Dinner dance in October – date has been set for october 15th. Partners welcome. We have a menu (4 course) and cost is £36 per person. Venue is Old Manor House, Keynsham.


First bookclub will be at the Wine Bar on the High Street on 21st April at 7pm.


Further to my last post about vouchers, apparently you can’t bring clubcard vouchers as you have to have the matching clubcard. Hey ho – there are plenty of other vouchers out there.


And finally, loads of new guests tonight. Let’s hope they enjoyed themselves and felt welcome. Hope to see you again ladies.


Pics to follow.


Night night


Mandy x

Voucher Swap

Sometimes, Ladies, I think my brilliance knows no bounds. (other times, there are definitely bounds!). Today I bring you ‘voucher swap’.

How often do you get your Tesco Clubcard statement, wade through the bumf, take the 2 vouchers you think you might use, and bin the rest?? How many times have you said ‘no thank you’ to the offer of Sainsbury’s computers for schools vouchers??

And now, the answer – our purple file! A new section in there with plastic wallet for vouchers. Bring the ones you don’t want, have a wade in there and see if there’s anything you do want. As they say in insurance adverts, “simples”.

Looking forward to having a good old delve in the wallet next month.

Mandy x

A bit of hard selling...

Feeling very W.I. inspired this morning after a fun evening yesterday with Michelle at the Wellsway School Ladies’ Pamper Evening. Met up with a couple of our own ladies who had stands there, spent some money, drank some wine (unusually for us), and managed to hand out some leaflets for our group and a bit of propaganda for the Federation. Hopefully it will lead to some new members.

The Spring Fayre is still consuming my every waking hour! I’ve got some posters and flyers made up (thanks Vic for the design) and will be doling them out at the next meeting. Get your thinking caps on about where we can advertise.


And finally for now, there are changes afoot in the committee – more on that later…..

Mandy

Getting plastered!

The hall at our new venue proved to be a perfect size for rolling around the floor which is what we seemed to spend quite a bit of time doing at our last meeting. Nigel Braybrook very kindly came along to get us plastered – well, bandaged, rather than plastered if you’re going to get technical.

We put ourselves in the recovery position, we put slings on and bandaged very lifelike plastic wounds. All good fun and served alongside our usual refreshments and a slice or two of cherry cake.

Having said that, a few of us did manage to get rather close to plastered in the Ship on the following Thursday....

Spring Fayre is really high on the agenda. Need loads of help!

Watch this space for more on that.

Mandy

WINGs baby

As promised - here he is - Toby  Husband.  Our brand new WINGs baby.  I met him at the train station on Sunday (with the rest of his family, he wasn't there on his own!).  Congratulations Lou.

Next one due May - over to you Adele......