The Village Group held their annual Spring lunch which was well attended, and members enjoyed buying bargain handbags, jewellery and scarves – only £1 each. The next Group event will be held on at 7.30pm on Wed 18th October at Moore where we will enjoy a one woman drama entited ‘The Life of E Nesbitt’.
Book Club read ‘The Perfect Guests’ by Emma Rous, and the Baking Beauties group had a theme of Muffins this month. Walking group enjoyed a lovely walk around Whitley – see the subgroup pages for more information. Our Craft and Art groups cancelled their April meetings because many of our members were away or had other commitments.
Melanie welcomed 36 members and 2 visitors to the meeting, and reported the sad news of the death of Dorothy Thompson – a long standing member of Whitley WI. She will be missed in many ways, including her friendly face on the Welcome Desk or raffle and her wonderful flower arrangements. We were asked to remember her as we sang Jerusalem. We were delighted to congratulate our Darts Team who have had a very successful year. They won the North Cheshire Group Trophy, and also came second in their group in the County Darts championship. See the subgroup page for…
In March members baked ‘All things Irish. See the subgroup page for more information and pictures
CFWI launched their ‘Jigsaw Race’ competition this March. Each team of 4 was given a 500 piece jigsaw with a time limit of 90 mins to complete it. The winner was the first to complete their puzzle, or the team with least pieces left at the end of the 90 minutes. Our team of Ann, Annette, Jean and Susan were the overall winners, completing their jigsaw with 19 minutes to spare and the only team to finish within the 90 minutes. They were each presented with a lovely campanula pot plant. A very enjoyable and sociable occasion, more similar events…
Our March Art meeting was led by Chris S, with a theme of ‘Camellias’. See the subgroup page for more pictures and information
This month Pat G shared her skills in the art of ‘Decoupage’ . This proved very popular, with 14 members attending. See the subgroup page for more pictures and information
These two groups combined this month for a walk around Walton Gardens – for more pictures and information see the subgroup page.
Nearly 70 WI members had a very entertaining evening with Jamie Sutherland, a professional comedian from Liverpool. He kept us all laughing all evening with his lively stream of jokes, refreshingly without the need for any bad language. He quickly tuned in to his audience, engaged with the front row by name, and picked out a couple of Whitley members (Sue and Ann) for special attention! The time flew by, and we had very good feedback . After refreshments we were entertained by a small group from Antrobus WI with a rhyme about being a WI member
At our March meeting Susan L led the discussion on The Marlow Murder Club by Richard Thorogood (Writer of ‘Death in Paradise’) Members found it light and entertaining, but without much depth. They gave it an average score of 7 – for further information look on the subgroups page.