February 2021
The fabulous Mike Hurst took us a magical tour of music through the 50s, 60s and 70s up to the present day.
Mike Hurst
January 2021
What was needed in January was a speaker who would lift our spirits and that’s just what we got in Debi Evans. Debi and her rescue dog Rolo talked to us about “Dragons and Rescue Dogs”
Take a look at what Debi has to offer here
December 2020
Christine Ramsey taking in to the Christmas season with her fabulous Christmas demonstration on Zoom. Christine showed us how to make 3 Christmas floral decorations.
October/November 2020
October 14th 2020
When you hear the number OO7 do you think James Bond, does the theme Gold Finger play in your memory, is it time for a cocktail, shaken not stirred?
Perhaps Ian Fleming has never touched your life but on Wednesday 14 October one of our favourite presenters Jeff Rozelaar, gave us a talk about Ian Fleming, his famous friends on the island of Jamaica and how ”Bond” was born.
Part Two will follow in November.
September 2020
September 16th 2020
Helen Plumb from just gems gave a fabulous talk on Zoom.
Check out her website here JUST GEMS
If you didn’t get to hear the talk you can listen here
August 2020
August 12th 2020 ~ The Meeting
Another big success with August’s Zoom Presentation.
Christine Green gave a talk in working for Auntie.. a life working for the BBC
If you missed the talk check it out here “Working for Auntie”
Why not take a look at her website.
https://christinegreencrafts.co.uk/
July 2020
July 8th 2020~The meeting
Fabulous meeting on Zoom today attended by 24 of you. Al did a great presentation on his walk from lands end to John O’Groats. Gory bits and all! If you couldn’t make it is worth catching up and watching the recording it was very entertaining. Click here Your presidents address…for them as wants to see my face Here
June 2020
June 10th 2020~The Meeting
Fabulous meeting on Zoom today attended by 33 of you! I am very impressed with you. I was able to record the meeting on Zoom so if you have a Zoom account click on the link below and enter the access password which I have emailed to members. It is case sensitive and needs the exclamation mark. I will try and make recording accessible for those who don’t have a zoom account.. bear with me. Also I turned the recording off whilst we were faffing and forgot to turn it back on so the first couple of slides are missing.
This is Valeria go take a look at what she does!
Meeting Recording:
Some screen shots of Valerie’s presentation.
And there it was, April and May gone in a flash! Rita holding us together with her biweekly quiz, the call circles forging new friendships and the sharing of the funnies and videos all helping to keep our spirits up. But today Tuesday 2nd June we had a speaker…a demonstrator! A cooking demonstration and we felt a bit like we were a WI again. Looking a bit different I grant you but I think we all enjoyed watching Lesley Holdship on Zoom! Take a look at her recipe gnocchi.docx
March 2020
Our annual meeting was a great success however it was with sadness we said goodbye from the committee to Lyn, who had been our news and views lady and Sue had been our programme Secretary. We also said bye bye to Rita as President. A message from our out going presidentI was hoping to speak to you all in person at our next meeting, but that may be a long time coming.
Thank you all so much for my lovely presents and kind messages. The flowers were beautiful and my owl is now happily settled enjoying the sun in my back garden. I will get to John Lewis eventually and find something to buy to keep as a memento of my time as President of Wantage WI. The meeting was really great and I thoroughly enjoyed it despite feeling rather emotional. Photo attached.
Rita organised a quiz to finish off the annual meeting..how well would you do?
Rita’s parting words!
Rita’s owl!
A fond farewell to our out going president Rita Hetherington
The out going committee minus Jenny
Bye Bye to Lyn and Sue
February 2020
Near to home Marc Bradfield gave a most interesting talk on Letcombe brook.January 2020
An interesting meeting with Richard Anderson and Eva Braun.December 2019
The last meeting of the decade was a special meeting and we went out on a success!
November 2019 meeting given over to our 10th birthday party.
October 2019
October’s speaker was John Paine talking about St Petersburg the city of bling.
Rita’s quote of the month ~ “Time is intended to be spent not saved”.
September 2019
Catherine Sampson ~ “Royal Weddings – what could possibly go wrong?”
Catherine Sampson took us an interesting trip through many a royal wedding.
Rita’s quote of the month ~ “When you look at a field of dandelions you can either see a hundred weeds or a thousand wishes.”
August 2019
There is no meeting in August but Rita has organised a walk and a lunch at Saddleback farm.
July 2019
Peter Tickler ~ “Female Crime Writers”
Peter Tickler came to talk to us about female crime writers but it was more a crime writing workshop. Perhaps he has brought out the Agatha Christie in some of our ladies.
Rita’s quote of the month~”Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.”
June 2019
Speaker, Jane Abbott ~ “Alpacas and a World of Fab Fluff”
In todays meeting Jane Abbott took us into her amazing world of Alpacas and fab fluff.
Rita’s quote of the month ~ “Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
May 2019
Speaker, Jeff RozeLaar ~ “Bagels and Bacon”
Today we really enjoyed a nostalgic and entertaining trip to the 1950s East End, a talk by Jeff Rozelaar based on his book Bagels and Bacon.
Rita’s quote of the month ~ “ Success is not Measured by the position that we have reached in life, but the obstacles we have over come.”
April 2019
Speaker, Martin Sirot Smith ~ “Tudor Easter”
Martin Sirot Smith is the Director of Sulgrave Manor. He appeared as his alter ego Laurence Washington, Lord of the Manors of Sulgrave and Stuchbury. A most enlightening talk…what you didn’t know about Easter.
Rita’s quote of the month ~ “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
March 2019
March is the month of the annual meeting. Today we said a goodbye from the committee to Lesley and Diane.
Rita’s quote of the month ~ “Always remember that the future comes one day at a time”
February 2019
Speaker, Stewart Linford ~ “The Windsor Chair”
Fabulous February.. Rita said a big thank you to Jean who had mastered our website for 9 years!!! There were several fruit and veg hamper winners and Stewart Linford wowed our Ladies with his windsor chairs! Once the meeting was closed we held a soup kitchen lunch to raise some funds for a charity. That evening some of those ladies went to Culham to have a guided tour around JET and MAST….. what amazing energy!
Rita’s quote of the month ~ “The value of life is not in the duration but it’s in it’s donation”
January 2019
Speaker, Rachel Shacklton ~ “What colour is your Stress?”
A lively meeting reflecting our lively WI, followed by a talk from Rachel Shacklton…”What Colour is Your Stress?”
Rita’s quote of the month ~ Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you have to keep moving”
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