WI members are invited to a skittles evening at the Cherry Tree Inn, Kettering Road, Market Harborough (near Lidl), starting at 7 pm. If you wish to eat, basket meals priced from approx £4, can be ordered on the evening.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never played before, it’s a good chance to have a go and meet new people. Come along and join in the fun. Contact us with your name and phone number.
What is it? For those not too sure, like me, Wikkipaedia says, ‘Laser Quest is the name of a Canadian-based indoor lasertag game based around infrared hand held units and vests, as well as the name of the company which operates each game centre.’
Join WI members and friends to find out and enjoy a fun evening in Northampton. £9.20 each for 2 games and one free one. Go on, there’s a child in all of us waiting to play! To pass on your contact details and to share transport, contact us.
This week Sue Lobb unveiled the mysteries of wine making, including the world’s major wine producing regions and the vast range of ingredients that can be used, as well as the characteristics that should feature in the finished product – even the taste of old leather in one wine. I now know that red grapes also make white wine!
Hints and tips followed on sampling: sight, smell, taste, and, yes, touch (your palette!) and suggestions for food and wine matching. Best of all, we tried wine tasting with a Veltliner, Syrah and Monbazillac.
The Hobbies night which was due to be held on the August 22nd will now no longer be going ahead. Unfortunately we did not have enough people come forward to showcase their interests.
Sausage making nights are planned at Maidwell, approx cost £17 per member, to include a 1lb of sausage. Bring own wine and glass/es. Dates 30 August and 27 September.
Skittles nights at the Cherry Tree, Market Harborough planned for 22 August (instead of the cancelled Hobbies night) and 13 September. Details to follow.
Scrapbooking will start on Friday 7 September.
Details to follow on all the above or contact us.
An engaging talk last night from Rich Keenan, a Chief Inspector in the Leicestershire Constabulary. Rich grabbed our interest right from the start, explaining how, as an 18 year old, he plucked up courage to tell his father that he was planning to go to priest training college. Located in the wilds of the Durham hills, he spent 2 years’ training before a group of female friends lurred him away.
He began a chequered career from selling aluminium double glazing, doing shifts as an overnight care worker in a hostel to teaching in a devoutly run Jesuit school. Eventually joining the Met, Rich humourously took us through his training, placement in upper class Kingston on Thames to handling protest crowds in Trafalgar Square. Family needs brought him to Leicestershire, where diverse roles have included work in rural Melton Mowbray (making decisions on whether the road was too muddy) to the Somali community in Highfields.
His local link? Getting married 22 years’ ago in the Congregational Church where we meet monthly.
“Absolutely delicious!!!!”, was committee member Fiona Thompson’s verdict when 
she made a Friendship Cake. I can vouch for that, too, having made one myself and sampled a friend’s. Make a starter and pass it round to other WI members to nurture and then make a German Friendship Cake Recipe themselves.
Armed with my piece of calico bunting from the April meeting, I pondered on how to decorate this with a Diamond Jubilee theme. Then I spotted a bundle of fabric in a sewing shop in Leicester – just the thing – pieces of red, blue gingham and Union Jack flags. I spent a relaxing Saturday morning designing 2 flags, using patchwork as my theme, with buttons and loops to decorate. I proudly pegged them on the line at the May celebration evening, along with a couple of dozen others. The standard was very high and I was glad I had made an effort. Well done to the 2 winners.
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and Resolutions night was a huge success on Wednesday 23 May 2012. After giving unanimous support to the resolution at the fothcoming National WI AGM, members were entertained by a delightful array of songs performed in the Congreational Church by Great Bowden Choice: ‘You’ll never walk alone’ to the leader’s own choice of ‘Why I love music’.
Members then tested their knowledge on all things Royal in a quiz. Questions, Guess Who and a fun round of Royal Pictionary, proving how resourceful members can be when drawing stick people! The evening was rounded off by a Dutch supper, with a strong Jubilee theme.
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s of red, white and blue bunting decorated the hall. Members displayed their own individually decorated bunting, judged by visitors from Stoke Golding WI.
Market Harborough WI 