December 2023
Christmas Lunch
https://wantagewi.com/the-christmas-lunch/
November 2023
Fabulous 14th birthday celebrations
Quizzes, guess the bride and cake!
October 2023
History of British Toastmaster – Jim MacLeod
September 2023
Poisons as Medicines -Towse Harrison
https://speakernet.co.uk/talk/635/poisons-for-medicine-victorian-pharmacists-and-quack-doctors
August 2023
Summer party
July 2023
A Passion for Fashion – Antonia Keaney
https://shop.blenheimpalace.com/products/passion-fashion
June 2023
WW2 Rationing – Karen Wiles
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81959223
May 2023
On May 10th we celebrated the King’s Coronation. Our very own Carol Doughty demonstrated some fabulous floral displays. We had a great social with a right Royal quiz and a guess the baby competition. An amazing crown cake!,
April 2023
March 2023 The Annual Meeting
February 2023
Sarah Shrewing, Coffee & Bookshop Manager, Ex Radiographer, Wife of Mr Shewy, Mum, Baking and Knitting enthusiast, Comedy lover and Christian came to talk to us about the Cornerstone cafe in Grove. Really interesting.
January 2023
Gerald Dickens, great, great grandson of Charles Dickens. What a fabulous story teller. https://geralddickens.wordpress.com
November meeting will be given over to our birthday party and December to our Christmas lunch. See you here January 2023
October 2022
Anna Steven came to talk to us about some of the Ashmolean treasurers. Anna does a few of her talks on Denman on line. An introduction to her can be seen here
September 2022
Peter Barrett give an extremely enthusiastic talk on his great grandmother, Alice Hawkins. Alice was a suffragette who campaigned for Women’s rights over a hundred years ago. We have much to be grateful for. https://www.alicetalks.co.uk/
We raised a total of £300 at this meeting and a subsequent coffee morning for the Pakistan appeal.
July 2022
Jessica Beare talked “Rubbish” about recycling and we were all absolutely enthralled.
June 2022
Today’s meeting was a presentation by Jennifer Maxwell on North and South Korea.
May 2022
Today’s meeting was a members day and it was filled with laughter and tears. Jan took us in search of Inspector Perez, lesley told us some of the funny things that can happen to you when you are blind. Flora had an interesting tale about inseminating Sarah the pig and Liz told us about doing a marathon on the water around London. Wow! Very intrepid! Our ladies have had and are leading such interesting lives.
Justine Nunn came to talk to us bout Parkinson’s Me. Her story was very moving.
April 2022
Mike Brook, came to our rescue in April when our booked speaker was unwell and Mike leap into the breech at 24 hours notice, with a great talk on British Prime Minister. Not dry as it sounds, in fact very amusing.
March 2022
March is our Annual Meeting and again it was rather scuppered by COVID as Diane our president succumbed to it but of course in true WI style the committee and others rallied round and a wonderful meeting was had. Take a look at our Charitable Activities page to see how amazing we are.
February 2022
A most emotional talk by John Caldicot.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC478244/
January 2022
January’s speaker was Muriel Pilkington, she gave a fascinating glimpse into history with her talk on the Mitford sisters.
December saw us having our Christmas lunch at the Comrades Club
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November 2021
Happy Birthday
Celebrating 12 years. No party as such but a cake and a magician.
October 2021
Really enjoyed today’s speaker Liz Woolly whose talk was titled “Leisure and Entertainment in Victorian and Edwardian Oxford”
Liz Woolley is a guide, tutor, researcher and writer.
She described where and how Oxford citizens spent their free time and the establishments which arose to fulfil the new demand for entertainment, many of them aimed at keeping people out of the pub.
It was a fabulous busy meeting with lots of socialising, a book stall, a card stall and we raised £36 on handmade poppies for the British Legion.
September 2021
Fabulous speaker at today’s meeting. Al Sylvester giving a talk entitled “Southern Reach,”an epic tale of leading the RAF’s first unsupported attempt on the Geographic South Pole. Al described how he selected and trained his team to survive in tents on Antarctica, while skiing unsupported the 600 nautical miles to the bottom of the earth. A heart on sleeve personal account of the day to day living on the ice, living on dried food, toilet drills to skiing in temperatures of – 45 degrees, leave you with no doubt that Antarctica is one of the most beautiful but most hostile locations in the world. He concludes his presentation by reliving the effects that frostbite had on him and the mental resilience and determination he displayed to recover, to once again lead others to fulfil their dreams.
https://www.inspirationbyperspiration.com/
August 2021
In august we had afternoon tea in Sandra’s garden. We raised money for Breast Cancer Now and had a fabulous time.
July 2021
Fabulous to be back together. A great start with our very own Carol Doughty doing a flower demonstration.
A Return
July 14th we held our first in the flesh meeting since March 2020. We met at the Comrades club so we could socially distance and our very own Carole Doughty did a magnificent demonstration of flower arrangements. She called the “Memories of our WI in Covid 2020”
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