September 2009

Minutes of the meeting of Winteringham W.I. held on Thursday 17 September 2009 at 7.30pm in Winteringham Village Hall.

Members present and apologies received were recorded. Sandra Wilkinson welcomed 23 members and 2 guests and invited everyone to stand and sing Jerusalem. Good wishes and a card is to be sent to Barbara Ashton who is to have a skin graft on her leg.

Minutes of Members Night and the Visit to Water’s Edge were read and signed as a true record.

There were no matters arising from these minutes.

Members were reminded that diaries and calendars ordered had been brought for collection.
The  Felt Making day with Sue Hawkmoon is on 3 October 2009 and details were discussed. Contributions to Faith Lunch were checked and members asked bring an old towel, old carrier bag, basic sewing kit and any beads, buttons, odd earrings, broken jewellery
A list for Christmas Dinner Thursday 7 January at Coleman’s in Brigg costing £19.92 was circulated. .
The programme for 2010 is complete and a list went round for hostesses and mystery parcels for next year.
Members were thanked for items displayed at Art Exhibition and for helping in the kitchen on 9 August.
Several members had asked about the possibility of a Christmas shopping trip. This was discussed and enquiries to be made about a coach.

Correspondence:
From NFWI.
A set of papers on current affairs was circulated. Numerous sheets detailing forthcoming events were circulated for members to sign. The sheets to go to W.I. House after the meeting.

Federation Newsletter
July issue asked us not to stick computer generated minutes in a book as glue has bad effects on paper over time and it would be a shame if minutes were lost to future members. Accordingly, we are now keeping sheets in plastic sheets in a file and will archive them in brown labeled envelopes when the file gets too full.

Finances Mrs Lancaster was not present at the meeting.

News Slot Brochures for events at the Ropewalk and Waters’ Edge were available for members.
Another Evening with the Burgage Band will take place at the Village Hall on Sat 24 October.
Lincolnshire Lasses will be at the Village Hall on Thursday 29 October: retailing gift, cards and much more. Posters will be up soon for both these events.

The Speaker for the evening was Josephine Wallace on Autumn Flowers. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed watching as Josephine demonstrated the creation of five superb flower arrangements following the theme. Using greenery from her garden and carefully chosen autumnal coloured flowers, Josephine chatted and arranged sunflowers and reeds for the hall, a modern creation with silvered twigs in two tall black vases for the dining table, orange roses and hypericum in a smaller low dish for the coffee table, a dramatic pedestal with passion flowers and burgundy carnations was prepared for the fire place and finally a mostly green pedestal appeared for the sitting room.

A vote of thanks was given by Pam Wells who said that everyone envied Josephine her wonderful artistry and that we could always be sure of a large number of members at the hall on the night that she visited us.

The hostesses for the evening were Jenny Pike, Karen Moody and Sue Bolton who also provided the mystery parcels, which were won by Josephine’s mum, Josie Ogg and Josephine herself. The flower arrangements generously donated by Josephine were won by Mary Nuttell, Mary Christoffersen, Jackie Bateman, Sandra Wilkinson, Val Hayton and Janet Campbell.
The competition for an unusual soft toy was won by 1st Marianne Ogg, 2nd Heather Bateman and 3rd Jean McAvoy.

 Next meeting is birthday night on Thursday 15 October  Hand Bell Ringing