The summer break is nearly over, so here are the MHWI dates for your diaries for September

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Allotment – Every Monday

Just a reminder that The Gardening Girls are meeting every Monday (weather permitting) from 2pm (until we run out of steam…) at the allotment in Stevens Street. Please contact Julie at Jusellars1960@gmail.com for the code to the gate if you would like to come and have a look. Our plots are right at the bottom of the main road down towards the cricket field. Hope to see you there soon! 

 Social Event at Foxton Locks – 4th September

For the Septemer social event we are organising a trip to the Foxton Locks Museum with a meal at the Foxton Locks Inn afterwards. Cost is £5.50 for the museum entry plus the cost of your chosen meal. Watch the website blog for more details and sign up at the August monthly meeting or email marketharboroughwi@gmail.com

Craft Club – 5th September

The Craft Club is doing Dot Mandalas with an external tutor this month. Participants just need to pay £ 5,- towards the cost of the room and materials (up to 2 cards).

Please subscribe via the WhatsApp group or email Fiona at fegraham1@gmail.com if you would like to join in.

Walking Group – 8th September

The Walking Group will meet at 10am for a walk at Burton Overy. Details will be posted on the Walking Group WhatsApp group closer to the date – please contact Fiona at f_tomlin@sky.com if you would like to join.

Book Angels – 18th September

The Book Angels Book Club will be meeting at the Three Swans at 2.30pm. This month’s book is a free choice of a biography/auto-biography or true story. Please contact Valerie at vhitchcox50@hotmail.com if you would like to join.

MHWI Monthly Meeting – 25th September

September is the month for our AGM. Come and join us from 7.30pm at the Church Hall in Fairfield Road for the election/confirmation of committee members and an evening of entertainment, games and fun.

Eco Village Garden Reminder

The Eco Village garden is always looking for donations of seeds, seedlings, plants and compost for the garden and to raise funds. Please speak to Leslie if you have anything that may be useful. 

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Unfortunately Susan Drage, who was meant to speak to us about upcycling at the next meeting, has had an accident that will take her some time to recover from. We wish her all the best and hope she’ll be back on her feet soon!

Instead of Susan’s talk, our speaker on Wednesday will be Allison Emery – some of you may remember her talk about walking the Camino way in Spain last year.

Allison will talk about another of her journeys – a trip to Chernobyl in the Ukraine, where she visited the sites on a whim and without speaking the local language. Talk about adventurous!

We look forward to seeing you on the 28th!

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Susan Drage will be joining us at the Church Hall in Fairfield Road at 7.30pm for the August Monthly Meeting.

Susan is passionate about recycling and up-cycling and will bring along a display of the things she makes from many of the items that usually go into your recycle bin such as super market carrier bags, old cd’s, food tins, ring pulls, plastic bottles, magazine & book pages.

Susan has featured on Radio and TV programs as well as in national newspapers. Come along and see if you can’t pick up some ideas for your next upcycling project!

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The Walking Group met last week for an evening walk from Foxton to Gumley. Close encounters with the local wildlife in the form of rams, dogs, cows and horses necessitated a certain amount of flexibility in the route to be followed…

But it was a lovely evening and everyone made it safely to the refreshments at the end.

The next walk will be on the 8th September at 10am at Burton Overy – please email Fiona at f_tomlin@sky.com if you would like to join the group!

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Our July Social Event was a visit to The Market Harborough Theatre to see a production of Hayfever by Noel Coward.

The story was a whirlwind of misunderstandings caused by the unconventional family’s comedic and chaotic interactions during a weekend when each of them had separately invited a guest. Twelve of our MHWI members attended this fun evening and enjoyed the play in our lovely local theatre.

Our next social event will be in September for a Castel and Roses Tour and a meal. Details will be posted here soon.

Note from the Editor: A mistake sneaked into the last ‘Dates for the Diary’ post – the Monthly Meeting is of course on the 28th of August, not July. Thank you for spotting it and alerting us. The post has now been corrected.

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It is the Summer Break (what summer???) in the MHWI calendar, but just so that you can plan ahead, here are the August dates for your diaries:

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Allotment – Every Monday

Just a reminder that The Gardening Girls are meeting every Monday (weather permitting) from 2pm (until we run out of steam…) at the allotment in Stevens Street. Please contact Julie at Jusellars1960@gmail.com for the code to the gate if you would like to come and have a look. Our plots are right at the bottom of the main road down towards the cricket field. Hope to see you there soon! 

Craft Club – No Meeting

The Craft Club is having their summer break in August – so the next meeting will be on the 5th September.

Walking Group – 7th August

The Walking Group will meet for an evening walk from Foxton to Gumley. Please contact Fiona at f_tomlin@sky.com if you would like to join the group.

Book Angels – 21st August

The Book Angels Book Club will be meeting at the Three Swans at 2.30pm. This month’s book is a Holiday Read of Choice. Please contact Valerie at vhitchcox50@hotmail.com if you would like to join.

August Bank Holiday – 26th August

MHWI Monthly Meeting – 28th August

Susan Drage will be joining us at the Church Hall in Fairfield Road at 7.30pm for the August Monthly Meeting to demonstrate upcycling ideas for everyday items. 

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After the popularity of Fiona’s introduction to embroidery stitches in March the Craft Club met last Thursday to put concept into practice making a glasses case.

The session was planned and held by Lesley who did a great job of explaining what to do. She provided us with lots of threads and different embellishments to use and even gave us printed instructions!

It was a lovely calm evening of sewing and chatting. Very mindful!

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Just a quick reminder that the Craft Club will be meeting this Thursday at 7pm at the Congregational Church in Bowden Lane, upstairs in the Langton Room.

After the popularity of Fiona’s introduction to embroidery stitches in March, Lesley and Mags have been working on a glasses case project for us, so we can try some of the stitches again.

Pre-cut felt, embroidery threads and embellishments will be provided (seed beads, buttons, sequins, etc) and written instructions so you can finish if needed at home. The cost will be £2 payable on the night and £3 for room hire. You will need to bring pins, sewing needle, scissors, needle threader and – if you like to – any of your own embellishments.

If you have not already let us know that you will be joining this session, please get in touch with Fiona at fegraham1@gmail.com as soon as possible.

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