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.
Category Archives: Special event
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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How did your skills raffle prize go?
If you were a lucky winner (or even the skills person), then do send in a photo and a few words letting us know how it all went! We can then post them to the website. Email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com
Wonderful woodland yarn bombing event this month
Our Vice-President, Carmen, has come across this wonderful woodland yarn bombing event, including interesting wool-based workshops to be held in Rushcliffe Park, Ruddington, Nottingham on Sunday 17th and Sunday 24th May:
We are not arranging an organised trip this time but we encourage you to have a look at these websites and, if you do plan to go, let Carmen know (marketharboroughwi@gmail.com) so you can wave knitting needles at one another across the woodland!
Bath time skills bonanza
Bath time is going to be a superb treat over the next few weeks. At the recent Skills Raffle, member Anne Clayton donated her skills in making bath salts, bath bombs, soap and handwash liquid. Anne ran a wonderful session for myself and friend Jan, expertly taking us through all the skills and techniques needed to make these products. We just had to take ourselves and aprons We even had tea and sponge cake to round off the afternoon. Great fun. A chance to make new friends, too. Thank you.
Helen Salisbury, Committee member - website/blogger
Last chance for Top Tips and Recipes
31st May is your last chance to submit tips and recipes for our WI Centenary Top Tips booklet due out later this year. Get emailing and send them to: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com
You can also hand them in to a Committee member at the May monthly meeting.
(copyright – your personal, favourite recipes, please!)
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