Birchwood WI
Founded in 1990, Birchwood WI has around 17 members.
Meetings are normally held on the second Wednesday
of the month at the Parkers Farm, Delenty Drive, starting at 7.30 pm.
Visitors and new members welcome.
Diary Dates
13th October 2010
Ruth Turner will be talking to us about Recipes with History (hope she brings tasty bits to try). The competition is a brooch.
10th November 2010
It's the Annual Meeting. Will you stand for committee??? The competition is for a favourite book.
8th December 2010
Members night - talking about Christmas in other lands - do you have experience? will you look up some info? The competition is a decorative candle.
Activities
The trip to see White Christmas at the Lowry was unfortunately cancelled - due to snow!!! Member Marj is currently arguing the case with the Lowry for a refund or better compensation offer as we couldn't get there through no fault of our own. Other theatre trips will come up during the year. - Postcript - Marj managed to get a 40% discount on our next tickets - so get looking at the programme and see what interests you.
Projects
Cheshire Show
Well after a few meetings we decided to choose the year 1969 for Class 2 - 'A Year to Remember'. Our combined exhibit showed the Investiture of the Prince of Wales (Welsh cakes); death of Judy Garland (rainbow silk painted scarf); first flight of Concorde (photo); Man on the Moon (floral art rocket). We were very pleased with our efforts - the judges for indivudal items were but not the overall - they said our table was too busy and in retrospect we sort of agreed! Indivually we entered a watercolour painting, two pieces of floral art and two photos - one of which came FIRST. All of us are thrilled for Betty Meeson (see photo above) - actually, those of us on the photo are slightly embarrassed as this will now appear in the local press and we may get recognised. It was a lot of fun doing the photo (I have to say that, I'm on it) - seriously though, from just 17 members at present I think we did a good job at Cheshire Show. We go by the mantra 'if no one entered anything, there'd be nothing to look at'.
Spending the bursary!
We spent some of the bursary money on a bowls try morning. A group of us spent a bright and dry Saturday morning getting to grips with finger peg and thumb peg. We had a lot of fun although there were a few aching thigh muscles in the days to come! Some of us were so interested that we may do it again - watch out, we may form a team (can't be worse than our quiz team!!!).
Contacting Birchwood WI
If you would like to know more about Birchwood WI
if you are interested in becoming a member, or if
you would like to come along to a meeting to see what
we do, please do get in touch.
We are always delighted to greet new members and
can assure you of a warm and friendly welcome.
You can contact us by email by using our contact form.
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Member Terry Jones proudly showing off her quilt entry at last year's Cheshire Show - with her Highly Commended Certificate.
PCSO Alison sharing some useful 'crime prevention' tools after her talk about her work.
Betty's photo for Cheshire Show - hopefully it's too small for you to know any of us!
