Martinstown W.I.

Published: 14 December 2017

WI Christmas Lunch 2017

The Christmas celebrations continue as the WI have a christmas trip. First stop, the lovely new Aldi at Chickerell for some festive shopping, then on to Lynch Lane Garden Centre for morning coffee and a browse. Goodness me we know how to live it up.


Then it was onto Portland for a quick charity shop shop, then a marvellous four course christmas lunch at the Sugar Loaf cafe. The game hum that tune had us all in hysterics, while the blowing of bubbles became quite competitive.

Seasons Greetings to everyone and a Happy New Year.

Lesley Pemberton

Published: 14 December 2017

WI Christmas Party 2017

The year has flown by so quickly and here we are again, another Christmas upon us. The WI Christmas party was well attended and even some new faces came along to ‘suss’ us out! What a night they picked, full of games, singing, food and a tipple of wine of course.

The table decorations for flower of the month was well supported and it was amazing to see such wonderful decorations. I wish I had taken a photo of them all. So thank you to everyone who put the effort in. We raised £3 for ACCW.

I think the highlight of the evening was the raffle with a twist. It certainly was entertaining and most people had a good laugh. Commiserations to those who didn't get a prize - hope the good company made up for it. 

On behalf of the committee we would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all in our special year, next year. We will be celebrating 70 years.

Published: 14 October 2017

WI Ladies Split the Atom in Village Hall...

Well done to Stuart Nuttall for making Nuclear Power so interesting in his very entertaining talk at our October meeting! Margaret and Terry played their part as an atom to be split by Celia, with the help of Lesley. Hopefully we all now have a slightly better understanding of the subject.

Published: 14 October 2017

WI Ladies visit Portland Bill Lighthouse...

The sun was out as 10 WI ladies left the Village for a trip too Portland lighthouse. But wait why was there a space in the car? Oops we forgot Marion! Quickly turning round at Upwey we dashed back to collect poor Marion still waiting patiently to be picked up.

Start again , on a beautiful sunny morning 11 ladies left the village on the trip to the lighthouse. 9 ventured all the way to the top 153 steps in all , worth it for the view from the top . Our guide was really good ( a WI member from another village) . On return to ground level we were all awarded a badge to say we had made it too the top.

From there we headed into Portland for a quick browse of the charity shops and a very good lunch in the sugar loaf cafe.

Published: 08 October 2017

The Knit and Sew group is doing very well...

We have successfully knitted up another batch of dementia twiddle muffs and they have been dispatched for use. Also Jan has started knitting hats for bottles of smoothies for Age UK. Now the nights are drawing in, now is a good time do a bit of knitting (the pattern is dead easy), We try to meet every 6 weeks or so for a sew up and natter session – with, of course, tea an cake!

Your help would be most welcome.

Lesley Pemberton

Published: 15 September 2017

WI and the Alpacas

In September we welcomed two very well behaved alpacas -“Lightning” and “Hurricane” to our meeting, along with their owner Wendy Williams. Wendy breeds her alpacas on a farm near Shaftesbury where she offers walking with alpacas (possibly a future WI outing?).   They are also available for weddings and visits to care homes.   After her talk we were given the opportunity to make friends with the alpacas.

It was good to see a number of visitors and potential new members.

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, 11^th October when we will be hearing about “Nuclear Power” from Stuart Nuttall.

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