Do buy your copy today – we’re on page 22! Read all about us!!! Click here to read: The Sun, 9 Dec 14, MHWI
Kara, Sun reporter, a photographer and the WI national press officer visited our November meeting (when we were card making).
Category Archives: Special event
Magic of Motown – 28 March 2014
Join us for a brilliant night out dancing away to Motown chartbusters. This Motown tribute concert is just what you need to relax and dance away to your heart’s content. It’s open to non-members, too.
It will be a dazzling show, gorgeous costumes and superb Motown sixties hits (How do I know? I went this year, thoroughly enjoyed and only wished I was in the dancing area as I was ‘dancing in my seat’ all night!)
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s all-time favourites; Stop in the Name of Love; Get Ready; I Want You Back; I Heard It Through The Grapevine; Signed, Sealed, Delivered; I Can’t Help Myself & more. Sixties classics give way to present-day masterpieces from Lionel Richie and Diana Ross.
It’s £22.50, payable in advance by the December monthly meeting (cash or cheque). If we can get a group discount, then any savings will be used to help people share cars and parking costs (and maybe go towards a drink).
So, book your place now – at the October, November or December monthly meeting.
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Chocoholics Evening – pure indulgence!
Pure indulgence! Superb fun! That’s the verdict from members and guests of the Market Harborough WI who made the Chocoholics Evening on the 2nd October such a success.
‘A cracking evening, with everyone enjoying themselves’ says Hazel Stacey, President. ‘There was loads for people to do, including Chocolate Bingo and Chocolate Olympics. All the games involved chocolate, whether it be a jigsaw, building the tallest tower or icing a cake blindfolded!’
A recent visit to a cash and carry had raided their chocolate ranges! Then followed a sweatshop evening when committee members sorted and bagged prizes, nibbling any leftovers. For the Chocoholics Evening prizes formed the basis of various competitions, including Name the Teddy and Treasure Chest. The first to sell out was Chocolate Tombola.
Several members made gorgeous chocolate cakes and our tastebuds were in heaven as we sampled them and voted for the best one.
Everyone joined in to play Chocolate Bingo followed by Chocolate Olympics. Players from each team took turns to build a chocolate tower, complete a chocolate bar jigsaw, eat a chocolate mint balanced on their forehead, transfer chocolate ball sweets from one dish to another using a straw and, finally, to decorate a cake with cream and coloured sweets (the trick? – to do it blindfolded!).
Winning team
Local stallholders shared their wares. All were MHWI members:
FarrinHeight Foods, vegetarian catering
Melody Cakes
Mandy’s Treats (sweet trees, candy bouquets/wreaths) – Amanda McCoy: 07791 883 929.
Mandy’s Treats
Hazel concludes, ‘Off to bed to dream of the chocolate that didn’t touch my lips.’ (A confirmed chocoholic, she is doing a ‘giving up’ fund raising event for work this month. Not a good time to stage the Chocoholics evening!
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- Buying bingo tickets
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- Name the Teddy
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- Chocolatemania staff
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- Treasure Chest
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- Best chocolate cake
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- Chocolate Tombola
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- Chocolate refreshments
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- Playing bingo
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- Waiting for that number!
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- Willing my numbers to come up
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- Building a chocolate tower
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- Winner of Name the Teddy
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- Chocolate jigsaw
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- Winner of chocolate jigsaw
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- Eating a chocolate mint
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- Moving chocolate balls to another bowl
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- What the finished cake should look like!
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- Decorating blindfolded!
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- Winner of cake baking competition
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Chocolate night – social evening – 2 October 2013
An indulgent evening and an early chance to stock up with goodies for Halloween and (dare I say it – Yes, I will as Simon Mayo said on Radio 2 this teatime that it was only 99 days to go!?) Christmas.
Members are invited to come along to the Congregational Church Hall in Bowden Lane at 7.30 pm until 9.30pm on Wednesday 2nd October. Entrance is free and then games and refreshments at a charge. The night will consist of Choc Olympics, Chocolate Bingo, stalls and games including a Chocolate cake competition.Share this:
Murder mystery night – a great success!
Thirty-six people came along to the Angel Hotel, Market Harborough, on Friday 13 September for a Murder Mystery night led by Mike Taylor and his wife, Natalie (see top picture below).
Hazel Stacey, Market Harborough WI’s President, reports, ‘Although I didn’t guess correctly “who done it,” several people did.’
Hazel adds that, ‘In a sense it was a private function as no-one booked through the Angel Hotel – it was all WI ladies and or friends of. The food was good and entertainment was really good. I have never been to one before and was a little dubious to begin with, but within minutes everyone relaxed and laughter was flowing along with the wine!’
Mike set up visits to historical locations and houses a number of years ago after a paranormal experience. Things that go bump in the night are a speciality!
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Murder Mystery night
‘It has been confirmed that the murder mystery night is £25pp instead of £35pp! This does include a 3 course meal with coffee and the entertainment. If you haven’t already booked, please do as I think (well hope at least) that it will be a fantastic night!,’ says Hazel Stacey, President. ‘It’s on Friday evening, 13 September at The Three Swans Hotel.’
To book Contact Us or call 07547 890 756.
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Enigma quiz night
Many thanks to Evanda Greenwood, Social Secretary, for arranging the quiz this evening. It was held at Engima and they made us very welcome. Seventeen members and visitors took part in answering 40 questions that spanned general knowledge, history and geography.
Try one of our questions that created much debate on our table? Which parts of the body keep growing? (see below for answer)
Team Bananas won with 37 points, followed by WI knows 32 points, Sooty & Co 30 points, New Ones 27 points and Sizzling Sisters 19 points.
Teams: New Ones and Sizzling Sisters
Team: Sooty & Co and quiz leader, Evanda
Teams: WI Knows and Bananas
Answer (in bold)
The body parts that keep growing as you age are the hair, nails, ears and nose. The nose and the ears never stop growing as they are made of cartilage which continues to grow after our bodies have stopped.
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Join us for a quiz night
On Wednesday 10th July, join us at Enigma Bar and Café on Coventry Road, Market Harborough for a quiz night. The quiz starts at 7.30 pm and entry is £1 per person.
Hope you can make it. Should be a fun evening and as well as a great chance to meet new friends.
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Great family evening on Foxton boat trip
Evanda Greenwood, Market Harborough WI Social Secretary, is delighted to report on this successful evening on Friday 14 June for Market Harborough WI members, family and friends.
Evanda says, ‘We cruised on The Vagabond. We went from Foxton passing Debdale Wharf right up to Smeeton Westerby. People took wine and picnics and it was a lovely evening and thankfully, the rain didn’t come to spoil the fun.
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Decorate a fish competition
Members recently took on the challenge of decorating a fish. The Leicestershire Craft Centre in Market Harborough provided a template and entrants could decorate the fish in any medium they preferred, other than clay. Many entries were on display in Leicester and a selection is due to be on view at the Craft Centre in Market Harborough any time now.
Thanks to Chela Grainge, Committee member for organising the competition and for taking the photos. They are not all of member’s handiwork, but are too good not to include them!
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