Come along on Wednesday 25 June and join Norma Blakey who does psychic readings based on flowers. Bring along a flower of your choice from your garden in a paper bag, write your name on it and let the medium deduce your flower. Can she get it right?
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May bake huge success
Members enjoyed a great evening on 21st May with Market Harborough WI’s May Bake. The theme was vegetables. Many members brought along food to share. It could be sweet or savoury as long as it contained vegetables. You can see the results below (go to the foot of this post to download copies of many of the recipes):
Hazel sampling the chocolate and beetroot cake!
Members enjoying the quiz, written by Helen and Claire Salisbury. The winners were Team Spring Onions – well done!
Vegetables recipes for you to download:
Sweet potato and white chocolate cake
chocolate and beetroot brownie
Happy baking!
Coffee morning – Saturday 5 July 2014
If you haven’t done so already, make sure you put this date in your diary and tell your family and friends, too. Our major, annual fund raising event this year is to be a Coffee Morning to be held at the Market Harborough Theatre in Adam and Eve Street (near the council offices/new library and museum and just behind the Old Grammar School on High Street). Entry is free. The event will run from 9 am until lunchtime.
We need members’ help in a number of ways, please.
- Home made cakes to sell at the event and to be sold with refreshments**
- Prizes for the tombola stall – anything, as long as it is within its sold by date. Please bring these by the June meeting on 25th
- Volunteers to help on a rota basis (2 hour slots) to make and serve refreshments, manage the cake and tombola stalls and maybe outside to encourage passers by to pop in for a coffee
** Cakes can be dropped off at the Leicestershire and Rutland Federation quiz night at the Congregational Church Hall on the Friday evening, the 4th (a couple of members will be doing the refreshments). Or, you can drop them off at 11 Ashley Way, Market Harborough Le16 7XD on the 4th You can also leave them in the porch, unless it is a really hot day! Alternatively, call 07906 857 133 if you would like your cake to be collected. Lastly, you can drop them off at the Theatre on the morning of the 5th July between 8.15 am and 9 am.
Cellophane, boxes and paper plates for presenting your cake for sale will be available at the June meeting.
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WI quiz night in Market Harborough (Leicestershire and Rutland Federation)
Are you free on Friday 4 July 2014? If so, would you like to make up teams of 4 (WI members, non-members, partners or husbands) to take part in a quiz night to be held at the Congregational Church in Bowden Lane in Market Harborough? There is a small charge. Bring your own wine and nibbles (tea will be served, too). Start time to be confirmed, but likely to be around 7.30 pm.
To enter your team, email the Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of WIs in Leicester – Contact Us
Why I joined the committee of MHWI
Although I have lived in Market Harborough for 14 years, I have worked full time for
most of that period and didn’t know many people. An article on line, shown to me by my daughter, prompted me to call the MHWI contact, Hazel Stacey. Before I knew it I had attended my first committee meeting and had a sense of purpose locally. Several months later I attended a WordPress course at work and used this website as a practice for the one I wanted to set up locally for my employer. You know the rest.
Being a committee member has enabled me to contribute ideas and take part in organising and assisting at numerous events over the last 2 and half years. Making things happen and knowing that lots of women enjoy attending, plus meeting other people, is very rewarding. Committee members pay their annual fee just like any other member. We attend a committee meeting once a month, usually in a pub. We urgently need new committee members who can bring their own ideas and give some time each month to help make meetings and social events take place. Our very own Hazel is stepping down, too, this autumn. So, if you think you would like to step up and join the committee, please speak to a committee member (we wear the blue sashes) or Contact us. You’re very welcome to come to a committee meeting, not only to meet us, but to see what it’s all about.
Thank you to Evanda Greenwood for her write up of the farm visit last week (you will remember Jane Barnes spoke to us last year, telling us all about the life of a dairy farmer’s wife):‘Anyway, Farm visit was great. Jane Barnes was a great host and we all ambled across the fields to see all of the cows. The Barnes’ have roughly 300 acres and the art of dairy farming is extremely technical to say the least. It was a lovely evening and we all thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt so much.’
‘They have about 130 milking cows in the herd, most of them being pedigree Ayrshire and these need feeding twice a day.’
To quote from the Farm’s website, “They produce 725,000 ltrs of milk per year and it is sold on contract to Clawson Dairies to be made into Stilton Cheese. The aim is to send 2000 ltrs of milk to the dairy everyday. It’s collected by a tanker lorry and taken to Clawson to be pasturised before its made into cheese.”‘
Not sure of the significance of the time picture – maybe Evanda can explain?
May-bake monthly meeting – vegetables
Sort out your favourite vegetable recipe (sweet or savoury) and bake it for the next 
monthly meeting on 21st May. You will be able to share your baking with members, as well as sampling lots of new, innovative ideas which you can then try out on friends and family.
Don’t forget to bring a copy of the of the recipe (or, ideally, several copies) so these can be pegged up for other members to take home to try out for themselves. We’ll be putting digital copies on the website, too, after the meeting.
Members will also be able to have fun in teams and take part in one of our popular quizzes. This, too, will be on the theme of ‘vegetables.’ Time to dig deep now to brush up on those unusual facts.
Colour makes a difference
Jo Round, image consultant, was the speaker for last Wednesday’s April meeting. Evanda Greenwood, Committee Member, reports, ‘The main thing Jo focused on was that “colour makes a difference” and that was what she concentrated on really.’
‘She got some ladies up and swatched them in colours that didn’t suit them then changed them to “their colours” and we had to see if we could get it right. It was very interesting! Also she said that there are dominant colour “types” – light, deep, warm, cook, clear and soft and depending on one’s complexion. The colours should match.
Jo concluded, “Clothes and makeup are a form of communication and should be representative of who you are”. We should always dress appropriately for any given occasion’.
Click to find out more about Jo Round at Creative Confidence.
Skittles evening fun
Market Harborough WI members met at the Railway Arms, Kibworth on Friday 11 April and enjoyed playing skittles, plus sampling some good pub food.
Dairy Farm Visit – last chance to book tonight
The next social event is for the Dairy Farm Visit which is on 7th May 2014. It begins at 7pm and finishes around 9pm with refreshments. There is a walk up the fields to see the cows grazing etc, and then around the farm buildings to see the baby calves and the milking parlour. Jane would recommend wellingtons, as there’s always plenty of cow poo about! It is £5 per person payable at tonight’s monthly meeting.
The postcode for SatNav’s is LE14 2PS. Plenty of car parking in the farmyard which is right at the end of Church Lane.
