We’re in the Mail again! A super write up on Raising Agents being performed by the touring Mikron Theatre tomorrow evening: overview of the play and how Maeve Larkin researched and wrote this play to celebrate the WI Centenary.
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Sold Out! ‘Raising Agents’
Brilliant news! It’s a sell out! There are no more tickets available. If you have been successful, see you there on Friday. Doors open from 6.30 pm and tea/refreshments available or bring your own bottle.
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WI Try and Taste Event – Wednesday 24 June
The Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of WIs is running this popular event at Wing, Oakham this year. A chance to spoil yourself with a selection of quick and delicious nibbles both sweet and savoury, as well as a mini wine tasting. Later on, sit back and marvel at the skills of a local flower arranger! How can you possibly resist!
Country Markets will be in attendance, and there will be the usual raffle of course, as well as a quiz sheet on sale to keep your little grey cells fit and well.
Download their flyer for full details: A FLIGHT OF FANCIES Flyer
Trip to Centennial Craft Fair in Harrogate
Unfortunately due to lack of support to the WI Centennial Fair it is not viable to run a coach from Market Harborough. Some members will be going through and will be car sharing. May be an option for other groups?
If anyone does prefer a coach trip, then the Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of WIs is planning a trip on Friday 4 September 2015. The coach leaves WI House, Leicester LE4 5LQ at 9 am, returning from Harrogate at 4 pm, cost £22 to include coach and admission. Whilst the fair is open to everyone, this coach trip is for WI members only. Bookings by Monday 3 August 2015 on Event Booking Form 2015 1 (LRFWI). Parking limited in Leicester so car sharing recommended. Public parking in Royal Hotel.
13 days left to send in your Top Tips
Get emailing or scribbling and let the Committee have your favourite recipes, household or garden tips or craft patterns. Email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com or bring them to the May monthly meeting.
Book your place for Herbal Medicine evening in June
Have you reserved your place at the Herbal Medicine evening on Wednesday 10 June 2015? Talk and a chance to make a potion or lotion depending on plants available on the day. £6. Venue: the Lounge, Congregational Church Hall, Market Harborough.
Booking and payment needed by the May monthly meeting.
Crafters – can you help make a banner?
Having just had a meeting with our President, it has been decided to try and get a MHWI Banner together for the Carnival.So all you budding people who want to have a go at the above ,we will be holding a meeting on Thursday 21st may at 7.30pm at the Roebuck.
Clare will go though the design and we are hoping that we can get different people or groups to be able to do parts of the banner.
If you can come on Thursday, can you let us know please? email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com or call 07547 890 756.
Are you watching Home Fires?
Follow this link to catch up with a smashing new drama series on ITV about the women of Great Paxford WI, just before the start of World War II: ITV Catch up
Handmade bouquet fun at Tippetts Florist
In the Christmas raffle, I was very lucky & won a voucher for £45 towards a floristry course at Tippetts florists in Oadby!
Last Saturday I joined a small group of ladies at Tippetts florists & we were taught how to create a hand tied bouquet! The course was very informative, the tutors were friendly & helpful, we were given a great selection of flowers to work with & we all came away with a beautiful handmade bouquet! (All materials included in the price of the course). I thoroughly enjoyed the day and picked up lots of new skills!
I would recommend Tippetts florists in Oadby if anyone is interested in a floristry course, it was very reasonably priced, the course content well thought out & the tutors were very knowledgeable. It was worth every penny!
Thank you WI, it was a great prize & I had a lovely day! Emma Page, MHWI member
In touch with WIs in other countries
We are delighted to have made contact with WIs in Melbourne, Australia and Canada. You can check out the Country Women’s Association We hope to be exchanging gifts and keepsakes with them this summer and will be sharing these with you. Donna, their Executive Director, is most impressed with our website and particularly likes our motto ‘Something old, something new.’
Our second contact has been with Shelagh, a nurse living in the middle of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city with a population of about 750,000. She has visited the UK and particularly liked Durham and the people. Shelagh also said she had, ‘visited your website, and it appears that you have a lot going on these days!!’
Do you have a contact with a WI or similar organisation elsewhere in the world? If so, do get in touch with them and share our website, Facebook and Twitter pages or pass on the contact details to a Committee Member or Contact Us. Let’s make this Centenary year the one where Market Harborough WI connects worldwide!
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