We are looking forward to our February meeting, which will be held on the afternoon of Wednesday 14th, at the Jubilee Centre, Bradley Stoke. Our speaker this month will be giving a talk entitled: ‘The Rise and Fall of the Winterbourne Hatters’. Feel free to come in something romantic, ladies, or perhaps a special hat! 😉
The new WI Learning Hub is now up and running 🙂 Hopefully many of our members have had a chance to explore this great new facility online, having received information published by NFWI and then sent on to individual WI groups by email. (There have also been articles published in recent editions of WI Life). Many of the interesting courses available to WI members through the Learning Hub are now free, although a few do still incur a small cost. There are live courses, (presented through Zoom), and also those which can be watched on demand at any time. The courses cover a wide variety of topics and even include some entry level short courses in foreign languages, originally created by the Open University. The link given here will take members to the Home page of the Learning Hub, from which it is possible to learn much more about the new system and explore the fabulous range of courses on offer. Happy browsing!
It was lovely to see all those at yesterday’s Easter meeting. Certain committee members made for excellent Easter bunnies(!) and there were lots of items of cheerful craft work on display. Thank you to those who took the trouble to provide them, to supply raffle prizes and Easter eggs to be given to the homeless. Thank you also to Trevor Carter, author and story teller, who provided some original poetic entertainment for us.
Link to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, as given on the mainstream UK news channels tonight… https://www.dec.org.uk/
Hope this is a useful link for those wanting to support the Red Cross Crisis Appeal for people struggling in Ukraine…
This link leads to further links, to organisations trying to help both people and animals in the Ukraine. If you would like to support these organisations, then you can find out how to do so here. Please feel free to share the post widely.
Many thanks to Jenny Smith, who gave an interesting talk and demonstration session, on the topic of Shibashi Tai Chi, at our February meeting this week. Here are a few photos of our ladies having fun practicing some of the exercises, (you can click on a picture to enlarge it and then move through the gallery using the arrow keys).
It has been very disappointing to have to cancel our January meeting, but we hope you will enjoy looking at these nice photos, taken during our Christmassy meeting last month, during which we had a great time singing songs together. A reminder of the fun we have when allowed to meet up without horrid Covid issues to be concerned about! Hopefully we will be able to run our February meeting as planned and we’ll all have a good catch up again then.
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