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Eastbrookend Country Park Event This Tues 5th June!!! From 11am-approx 4pm. Lots for all the family and a lovely nature park to wonder around.

Come along and support our WI group stall, and thanks to those already volunteers signed up, see you there. Fingers crossed for some sunshine!

June Meeting Herbs and Jubilations!

Our speaker this month is Herbalist, Deborah Syrett. She has given us the following information about the talk;
''I will do a short introduction on my training and what I teach at the Forest Farm Peace Garden (I do herb walks and talks and teach people how to use herbs safely for themselves and their families for day-to-day first aid instead of relying on pharmaceutical drugs) (people have forgotten even the most basic understanding of how the body works - so an important part of my work is re-educating them). I will bring a number of samples of medicinal herbs from the Garden that can be handed round and I will discuss their medicinal uses, how to preserve them and how to make simple home herbal preparations from them. I will also bring some prepared herbal tinctures and syrups etc. for people to try.   I will bring a teapot with me and a mix of dried herbs to make a herb tea. I make a small charge for herbal first aid hand-outs that I ask £1 for to cover the cost of photocopying.''

Don't forget, to keep up the jubilee mood we are inviting everyone to wear something Red/White/ Blue

 Also at this months meeting: Jubilee Mini Quiz Thanks to Sue O'Malley for organising this for us!

Crafts Swap Fundraiser this Weds

Don't forget - you are invited to bring along a small hand crafted item to swap, charge for participating is £1 which helps with our fundraising

Tea and Coffee Rota

Our June 6th Volunteers are:
Please check for our rota for details.

Hope to see you all there!

Hanging Baskets - May Meeting 2012

Andrea gave us an informative talk and demonstration on how to make up a hanging baskets with other general gardening advice too.  Thanks Andrea for the donation of a hanging basket for our raffle!

Alison, our fabulous raffle organiser also arranged a jewellery 'Swish', so we had the oppurtunity to swap items and gather some glitzy 'bling'.

May Meeting

Get your gardening gloves out because this month we have Andrea Hatfield coming to show us how to plant hanging baskets and talk about caring for them.
We are also doing our Jewellery swishing so bring along  the jewellery that you no longer use  and see if you can exchange for something you will!  £1 per Swish.



Tea rota reminder for May:
Our Tea and coffee Angels this month are Mel Devonshire and Sue Wiles.
Ladies, if you are unable to come please ask a fellow member to take on your tea role.

Don't forget the St Georges Open day at Valence House tomorrow. (11am -4pm) We are running a stall to tell everyone that we exist and possibly recruit new members. We have samples of members craft work and are hoping to run a knitting workshop. Please come along and see us if you can that is if the rain keeps off !

Our foray into running a stall was very successful and I would like to thank everyone who helped and came to support us.  please look at Past Events to read more!

April Meeting

Please accept our apologies for the lack of speaker last night. Mark had sent an email quite late on as he had been struck down with flu. Maxine will be in touch with him when he is feeling better and hopefully we will be able to hear the second part of his talk in April.

Other activities in April will include:

- Easter Raffle - Bring an Easter related wrapped gift of around a pound in value and then we will have lots of lovely prizes for the raffle

- Egg decorating competition - This can be a boiled egg, foam egg or wooden egg. Pay a £1 to enter and see if the judges think yours is eggcellent!

Reminders

Please start clearing out your costume and dress  jewellery for a jewellery swish in May!

Details of the craft raffle showcase in June will follow at the next meeting.

March Meeting - Local History Talk

After much woo-hoo-ing and yee-har-ing at our last meeting it's time to hang up your cowboy boots, take a seat and relax.

We are fortunate to have the excellent Mark Watson coming in to deliver the second part of his local history talk. Part one went down really well amongst the group and I'm sure part two will not dissapoint.

See you there!