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Pickenhams’ WI<br />
Carolyn opened the meeting held on<br />
Tuesday 10th October welcoming a<br />
visitor and all members, new and old.<br />
Muriel Small read a lovely poem.<br />
Reports of the WI Activities over the last month:<br />
1) The tour of Historic King’s Lynn was very interesting.<br />
We had a good guide who took us to some lovely old<br />
buildings in King’s Lynn and told us their history. We<br />
hope to go again next year and see a bit more.<br />
2) Anne Francis gave us a fantastic music and dance<br />
session, which was well attended and enjoyed. She<br />
is coming again on Friday 3rd November from 11am -<br />
12 midday. Do join us if you can - it was such a lovely<br />
session and is open to all. Free!!!<br />
3) Members enjoyed a trip to see Victoria and Abdul<br />
on at the Dereham Cinema.<br />
Future Events:<br />
1) the Arts and Crafts Group should be starting soon -<br />
date of an inaugural meeting to be arranged at our next<br />
meeting. We will meet at Gillian Simpson’s house.<br />
2) Lunch at the Iceni cafe on Tuesday 24th October, 12.30.<br />
Our speaker was Simon White from Peter Beales Roses,<br />
Attleborough. Simon gave us a talk and slides about<br />
roses, climbers and ramblers. There are 20-30,000<br />
different types for very situation - wall, pergola, arches,<br />
obelisk, shed - and how to look after them. Two words<br />
only: water, water, water and feed, feed, feed.<br />
He had bought some plants to sell so we all went merrily<br />
home with our bargains. Val won the competition for<br />
the prettiest pot with Melanie coming second.<br />
Next month is the AGM on Tuesday 14th November<br />
at 2.00pm in St Andrew’s Church, North Pickenham.<br />
Please come along and vote in the officers and<br />
committee. This will be followed by a beading<br />
demonstration. Costs £3 to make your own.<br />
Competition is “ The Best Beader”. New members<br />
welcome. Contact Melanie Cousins . 01760 440456.<br />
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS EVENT & MARKET<br />
FRIDAY 1 st DECEMBER 2-8PM<br />
MARKET PLACE, SWAFFHAM<br />
15<br />
Sporle Afternoon WI<br />
When does a “lady” pull faces and stick<br />
out her tongue? When she’s at the<br />
monthly WI meeting been instructed by a Yoga teacher<br />
of course! Our October speaker told us that Yoga<br />
has different exercises for different parts of the body.<br />
Pulling faces, sticking out the tongue and shaking the<br />
chin being just a few of the exercises for the face. If the<br />
gardener, who was cutting the grass outside the hall at<br />
the time, had glanced in the window – well!!! After all<br />
that facial exercise the tea and cake was a very welcome<br />
opportunity to chat and laugh at our antics. Then our<br />
President thanked the committee for organising the<br />
summer outing to Great Yarmouth and expressed her<br />
delight at the circus, echoed by all the members.<br />
Our Secretary read the WI news followed by the raffle<br />
and the meeting closed with a poem.<br />
November is traditionally our AGM when we discuss<br />
the year’s activities, our finances and any other<br />
business. This year we are having a belated Halloween<br />
lunch so watch out for any “witches” you may see, they<br />
are not lost just looking for Sporle WI as it will be the<br />
3rd Tuesday of the month.<br />
December’s meeting, our Christmas celebration, is to<br />
be a Christmas style meal for members and friends.<br />
We then look forward to the new year with our 1st<br />
speaker of 2018 on the subject of Hypnotherapy – 3rd<br />
Tuesday of January 1.45pm – 4pm<br />
Beachamwell WI<br />
On Thursday, October 5th,<br />
Beachamwell WI members were<br />
entertained by a most interesting talk by Liz Nally<br />
on “Antique Quilts and their stories”. Liz brought a<br />
number of beautiful old quilts, each of which had a<br />
story to tell. Liz is not just an expert on the making<br />
and stitching of quilts, but in some cases had found<br />
out about the individuals who had made them. A<br />
fascinated evening which got us all talking.<br />
Next month, we will be back in our usual home in<br />
Beachamwell Village Hall for a demonstration of Holly<br />
Wreath making by Simon White, followed by our Annual<br />
Meeting. As always, visitors are very welcome to join us.<br />
On Saturday, 2nd December, there will a warm<br />
welcome for all visitors to our CHRISTMAS FAYRE.<br />
The doors of Beachamwell Village Hall will be open<br />
from 12 till 3pm, for the sale of delicious cakes and<br />
jams, “nearly new” items, decorations and unique<br />
hand crafted gifts. We also have our very own popup<br />
café, with a range of refreshments. Last year, the<br />
soup, sausage rolls and mulled wine went down a<br />
storm! So why not come for lunch?<br />
Enquiries to Maggie 01366 327023 or Helen 01366 328589.
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