Despite the terrible sadness of Her Majesty the Queen’s death our meeting went ahead. The Queen was a member of the Sandringham and West Newton WI since 1943. After Jerusalem and a minute’s silence, we sang the National Anthem. It was a busy meeting as we had our “Glorious Gords” competition judged by last year’s winner, Di Fletcher. This year’s winner was Liz Wingham, with … Continue reading September Meeting
Rather than doing separate posts for our activities, this month we are going to trial doing one post that covers all the activities for the month. Dates of these and all our activities are also on our “Diary Dates” page. Monthly Meeting Our meeting is on Monday 12th September. The subject is Violette Szabo GC and the speaker is Jeremy Prescot. At Brockenhurst Village Hall 7pm … Continue reading September Activities
Our talk this month was by an Archaeologist – Ruby Mogg about Medieval Southampton. She was full of enthusiasm about her subject despite the heat! She took us through the Saxon era, the Normans and late Medieval Period. There is no written record before the Roman invasion. A lot of Saxon encampments were where Bitterne is today, towards the River Test. There was a grid … Continue reading July Monthly Meeting 2022
Our June meeting was another very busy one! We started by singing Jerusalem. We had several Birthday girls who received flowers. Our President presented the overall ‘Flower of the Month’ Vase to the winner for the past few years (due to Covid) to the member who had won the ‘competition the most times in this time period. The winner was Maureen P. Maureen P and … Continue reading June Monthly Meeting
This month we had our AGM and was helped by our WI Adviser. We do have a change of some of the Committee Members which is inevitable, however the President was re-elected. Information about the current committee can be seen here. We also had our Flower of the Month Competition in aid of ACWW. Maureen was our winner.. We also held a raffle and also … Continue reading May Meeting
We had a good turn-out including 6 guests at our April meeting. It was a busy meeting with a flower competition, a raffle, a shoebox collection of toiletries for Ukraine refugees and lots of sign-ip sheets for forthcoming activities! This month our speaker was Deborah Wheeler from Whitchurch Silk Mill. She gave us a light hearted introduction to Silk Painting. Whitchurch Silk Mill is the … Continue reading Our April Meeting
Thirty-six member and eight guests attended our March meeting. A pot of lovely bulbs were presented to our Birthday girls. A car load of donations were collected for the Ukraine in addition to £235 for the Disasters Emergency Committee (which the Government will match). Evelyn told us about the categories for the New Forest Show (more to follow about this). Meral told us about the … Continue reading Our March Meeting
Our February meeting saw Brockenhurst WI celebrating our 104th Birthday with 35 members and 7 guests in attendance. We had an action packed evening! We celebrated in style and started the evening with a glass of Bucks Fizz. 14 members celebrate their birthday in February and they were presented with a birthday posy. Certificates and a floral tribute were presented to 6 members for their … Continue reading Our February Meeting and our 104th Birthday
A last minute decision took our January meeting on Zoom and our committee and speaker came up trumps to make this happen. Our president Elaine welcomed everyone. She told us about the upcoming walk on Monday 24th January and the lunch club on 28th January (Click red links for more details). We voted on the Resolution for the year and our nomination will be put … Continue reading January Meeting 2022
Our meeting on Monday 10th January is now a Zoom meeting. Please look for an email from Elaine for the Zoom link or contact us for the Zoom link. Speaker Linda Miller, Professional Embroiderer -Virtually in Stitches, machine embroidery. Continue reading January Meeting – Update
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