Early December mutterings

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in WINGs world. We had our Jamie@Home fundraiser on November 24th. Nice to see people out of our normal environment. We raised £55.50 which was somewhat plundered by the refreshments, but it was fun and that’s the main thing! (Yet again, a noticeable lack of photos – sack the camera woman!)




Adele made an announcement about a new arrival in May. Exciting stuff! Pic of Baby Brown to follow….

And we had our December meeting – Crafts for Christmas. Thanks to Kate, Julie, Ang and Sarah. We are all now multi-talented and can rustle up a gingerbread house, xmas cards, button jewellery and lovely little angels. We should be able to get the template for the angels if anyone wants to try making them at home. There was much cake and many nibbles and altogether I thought it was a jolly pleasant evening. 



Thanks to Roz for photos this time!  For some reason, this blog thingy will only let me load one photo on this page.  Might try again later and see if I can get it to work.

I was looking forward to putting more pics up - this time from our first skittles night, but sadly due to inclement weather and incapacitated players, the game was cancelled.  No doubt it will be rebooked and there will be triumph or humiliation in the new year.

Don't forget to get in touch if you're interested in the book club, stitch and bitch or golf.  Also signing up for wine tasting, food fair in September, breadmaking in October.  We could also use some idea of numbers for our Spring Ball in May.

Cheers all

Mandy x

November meeting and Update

It’s not every day I volunteer to have needles stuck in my arm and then have an electrical charge passed through them in front of a grinning audience, but hey – the things you do for your W.I.

November’s meeting another success methinks. Naomi from The Harmonies, the W.I.’s own girl band, dragged herself away from Peter Andre in Longwell Green Asda to come and talk to us about the album, her tv appearances and how we’re all going to get Jerusalem to number 1 for xmas (download from i-tunes on December 12th please).

Lots of tea, wine and cake while we tried to get round some technical difficulties (2 laptops, 2 projectors and a memory stick and we still couldn’t get powerpoint going). Fortunately, our star turn for the night, Dr Freya Scott managed to talk us through the mysteries of acupuncture with only the help of a small white plastic man, and a not-so-small W.I. president. Fascinating stuff, lots of questions, really enjoyable. 

October meeting and AGM

Despite a slightly tardy entrance by half of the committee, the evening got off to a good start. 12 new people there which is brilliant news. We kicked off with the AGM, some nice short reports from the committee and, after a bit of coercion from Daphne, a show of hands (and hopefully, therefore, support) from the masses to keep the incumbent pres, treasurer and secretary (is that because they like us, because they know no better, or because nobody else wants to do the job??)

Bit of a break for important stuff like wine and cake, then we moved swiftly (ish) onto our speaker Adrian Boots who chatted to us for about 45 mins about wild food, foraging, and the perils or otherwise of purple mushrooms. Woe betide any who dig up a horseradish that doesn’t belong to them! Really interesting stuff and a lovely speaker (sadly, no hat). Might keep him to ourselves, might share him with the rest of the W.I. – haven’t quite decided yet!

We had a brief introduction to Transition Keynsham http://keynshamt.wordpress.com/ from Laura, and then, the bit you’d thought you’d got away with, the President’s Ramblings. Finally, Chris flogged us all some sloe gin and chutney, and I think everyone went away spent up but happy.

I’ve already sent most of the reminders by email but just confirmed the date for the Jamie @ Home evening (chez moi). This will be Wednesday November 24th. Please let me know if you’d like to come to that. All proceeds will come back to our W.I. rather than end up as gifts for the host.



Once again, help with begging for raffle prizes would be gratefully received and offers of good stuff grabbed with both hands.


Actually remembered to take photos this time – unfortunately, focus doesn’t appear to be a strong point. Perhaps we should appoint a photographer. Any volunteers?

Don't know my own address!

No wonder you're not all hammering on my email door to share your ideas and suggestions - I gave you the wrong email address!
wingskeynsham@hotmail.co.uk

Sitting back now, waiting for the onslaught......

Summer holidays - finally!

Life's been so hectic at the minute, lots of family stuff going on so I'm afraid I've been neglecting the blog.  There's lots to say (and so little time).  We're planning a bake sale for Children in Need.  Could use some suggestions as to venue, date, general logistics!

 

Also, one of the things I was supposed to mention at the meeting (but forgot) is that we're hoping to start up some subgroups within WINGs and are planning a "job fair" style start to the meeting in November.  Anyone who wants to form a group (wine guzzling society, reading, film group, knitting circle, rock choir - whatever floats your boat) can put up a stall and make your pitch.  See how many others are interested in your thing and get your group together.  If there's something you fancy, email me wingskeynsham@hotmail.com and let me know.  If we get duplicates, I can put you in touch with each other and you can share your stand.  Anyway, that's the plan, hope it makes sense.

I'm going now.  Have just checked the weather for Kyrenia (Cyprus) and after months of glorious sunshine, it's forecast for rain and a 10 degree drop in temperature for the first 2 days we're there.  Bristol, of course, will be dry!

Back at the end of the month - hope y'all don't miss me too much!
Mandy x