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…

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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

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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.

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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 –…

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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.

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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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January 2023 – Mrs Darlington’s Jams February 2023 – Pet’s Pantry and Saving the Planet March 2023 – A Welsh Evening April 2023 – DIY Surgery May 2023 – Cheshire Wildlife Trust June 2023 – A Flower Festival July 2023 – Living in Styal August Outing – Meet the LLamas September 2023 – Chester Uncovered October 2023 – Members Evening – Morris Dancing November 2023 – Annual Meeting and Bauble Making December 2023 – Christmas Party

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