In touch with WIs in other countries

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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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Wonderful woodland yarn bombing event this month

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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

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bath time-w500-h500Bath 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

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WI Centenary logo eeD5k3OX_400x40031st 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!)

Fake Cake Bake tonight

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WI Centenary logo eeD5k3OX_400x400Join us this evening for a fun evening baking fake cakes for our carnival float in June.  You can join in as you wish: help bake fake cakes, help set the float on the day, be on the float or be a follower.  A fantastic, one off opportunity and we’d love your help, whatever you can give.  Time 7.30 pm.  Call 07547 890 756 for venue details.

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Hypnotherapy-w500-h500Gary Johannas and Caroline Prout engaged members last night with a fascinating insight into how our brains work: front brain and primitive brain (dealing with phobias, anxiety, depression and anger).  It seems we have a bucket where these things go so we can use our sleep to process them.  However, when it gets too full, it all goes wrong!  We discovered that what we need to do is to think positive, active positive and interact socially positively.  We can start by identifying at least one good thing each day.