Category: Womens Institute

Everyone was welcomed at the meeting by the president, especially new members, Pat and Zena. The effort and hard work by members in making the Link meeting such a success was much appreciated. Names were taken for our summer lunch at the Aubrey Arms, Bonvilston on 4th August at 12.30 pm. Final plans were made for the charity afternoon tea on 14th July at 2.30pm.

Barry Highlight WI have invited our members to their coffee morning on 22nd July and several members expressed interest.

As a result of ill health our speaker for the meeting was unable to be present but members had a social evening with strawberries and cream.

As there is no monthly meeting in August so the next monthly meeting will be on 7th September at the Church Hall when the speaker will be Keith Moger and the subject will be the History of Cardiff hospitals. Visitors are very welcome.

WI Everyone was welcomed to our meeting by the president especially Federation Chairman Ann Davis and Federation Secretary June Humphry. Judith Jessop came as a visitor and we hope she will join us again soon. Details were given of our Table Top Sale. The following events are as follows – Culverhouse Cross WI fashion show, Link meeting at Wenvoe on 16 June and the charity tea party on 14 July. May has been Resolution Month and members present voted unanimously to support this year’s resolutions – alleviating loneliness and keeping microplastic fibres out of our oceans. Presentations were received from our secretary, treasurer and president and we would like to thank Mike Flynn for auditing our accounts again this year. The committee for 2017 – 2018 is as follows –President, Madeleine Rees, Vice President, Margaret Morant, Secretary, Pam Ewington,Treasurer,June Davis. Committee members are Maria Williams, Janet Young and Jayne Aust. The evening concluded with humorous stories from Ann Davis.
Our next meeting is on 1st June at the Church Hall at 7pm, when our speaker will be Viv Wigmore who will be speaking of her “Journey in Jewellery Making” Visitors are welcome.

The president introduced our speaker Peter Cox to our March meeting. Peter is a former employee of G.C.H.Q-a British Intelligence and Security Organisation, responsible for providing the British government and the armed forces with information to keep our country safe. We were given an intriguing and interesting insight into the work at G.C.H.Q, touching on the story of Geoffrey Prime, who was a former linguist at G.C.H.Q who in 1982 was jailed for seven counts against the official secrets act. He had been interested in all things Russian, especially communism and was fluent in the language. There are several interesting social events for members in the coming months as follows:

April 19th – Dinas Powys fashion show with the Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

May 17th – Link Meeting at Sully and one at Wenvoe Community Centre on June 16th.

June 21st – Garden Party at Margam Park.

Our Table Top event is on May 6th, at 10.30 at the Community Centre. We would appreciate donations for the tombola or raffle prizes which can be brought to our April or May meetings

Our next meeting at the church hall on April 6th and Stephen Allen will talk about “Care in the Community”. Visitors are welcome.

Event in box. WI Table Top sale, Saturday May 6th, 10.30 Community Centre. Admission 50p, to include coffee and biscuits. There will be a raffle.

Our speaker in February was Tracey Wadsworth who is a beautician based at the Jasmine Room at the Copthorne Hotel, who came accompanied by her assistants, Lauren and Olivia. We were all very interested in the various treatments available, some of which were demonstrated on a few of our members – transformation of eyebrows on Jayne and Phyllis, a mini facial on Shirley and gel nail polish treatment on Margaret and Janet. We were grateful to them all for giving us their time and expertise. We all thoroughly enjoyed the meeting.

The latter part of the evening was devoted to WI business. We have been invited to fashion shows at Penarth and Dinas Powys, the latter at 7pm April 19th and featuring Edinburgh Woollen Mill. Names were taken for this and for the Summer Garden Party at Margam Orangery on June 21st.

Members were reminded that orders for diaries and calendars have to be submitted by 31st March and any unpaid membership fees are due to be paid at our next meeting, which will be on the 2nd March when our speaker will be Peter Cox and his subject will be “My Life as a Spy". Any guests will be welcome

Members were welcomed by our president to the first meeting of 2017 but sadly we learned of the passing of Vera Tipples, a former president and a faithful, enthusiastic member of our institute until ill health prevented her from joining us. Our thoughts are with Cliff and his family and members observed a minute’s silence in Vera’s memory.

At this first meeting our speaker was our own member, Janet Young, whose subject was the nine day queen, Lady Jane Grey, who was born in 1537 and was the great grand daughter of Henry V11. Her parents forced her into marriage with Guildford Dudley, a devout Protestant and was named as Edward V1’s successor. She was crowned Queen four days after the death of Edward. She was executed on the 12th February, 1554 at the age of 16 years and died a martyr.

Business matters followed refreshments when members were given details of Glamorgan Federation events in the near future. Raffle winner was Gloria.

At February’s meeting Tracey Wandsworth will be giving a beauty demonstration and visitors will be welcome.

At our December meeting we all enjoyed our Christmas party with a tempting buffet provided by the committee. Janet entertained us with the pantomime “ Cinderella” which proved very amusing with her use of mixed-up words. Madeleine read out an historical list of Christmas Day events, plus a list of famous people born on that day. This was followed by an account of the history of Boxing Day. Pam had produced two ongoing quizzes and the outright winner was Jayne. After the refreshments and the raffle we enjoyed a Christmas singsong accompanied by Janet on the keyboard.

The president would like to thank all who contributed to a very successful and enjoyable evening.

The first meeting of 2017 will be on January 5th at the Church Hall at 7pm when our speaker will be Janet Young and the subject of her talk will be Lady Jane Grey, the nine day queen. Visitors will be most welcome.

Members are reminded that subs are due in January.

A welcome was extended to all at our October meeting and especially to our visitor, Ros. We hope she will join us again in the future.

Our speaker was John Sheen and using Christmas crackers in a in the shape of a clock face as a starting point, he produced twelve very different entertaining pieces, all with a Christmas theme. John’s qualification in teaching English and drama was evident when he brought humorous acting into his talk.

We received a thank you letter from Ty Hapus in response to our donation to the charity.

Members were reminded of several events within our link in the near future :-

Coffee morning- Dinas Powys, Nov. 5th

Christmas party- Dinas Powys, Dec 6t

Carol Service-Penarth, Dec 15th

Our November meeting will be “Call my Bluff” with guests from local W.I’s Visitors will be welcome. October raffle winner was Betty.

Members of our WI want to thank Phil. Morant for all the time and effort he’s devoted to the cleaning and staining of our memorial bench in the churchyard. which has now been restored to its original colour.

Many thanks, Phil.