Adderbury & District WI

22/08/2025

Also for September 16 - for WI Day 2025 - to celebrate 110 years celebration at Tackley 10.30 - 3.30pm and an invitation to all members to drop by and join in the event ###

22/08/2025

Present and future activities -
Our read for Meriel's Book Group for August is Rebecca Rogers' The Purgatory Poisoning - where the protagonist has to solve his own murder after the very act ! Our next meeting is on Tuesday 23 August at The Bell Inn at 6.30pm when we will discover what we are to read for September. New members very welcome and please call Margaret on 07800721432 for further info.

For September - Mahjong on Mondays 1 and 15 September at the Library (Church House) at 2pm with further details from Maureen on - WhatsApp

Craft Group meetings - Mondays 1 and 29 September at 10.30am at Caroline's house for Christmas crafting activity. Come along to both or which ever is possible.

Thursday, 4 September at 7.20pm for our Members' Meeting when our guest speaker will be Anita Chialkatty with her demonstration on Vegetarian Indian Food, with samples of snacks to taste.

Monday, 8 September at 2pm at The Burrow (upstairs) for our next Discussion Group. Please do come along and join in. We are happy to discuss almost anything and a lively event is just what we look for. Call Margaret or Pat for further info.

Wednesday 10 September for Book Group at Su's, Further info from Bernice.

Friday 19 September, 12-4pm at Banbury RUFC, for 'Ask a Capable Woman and you will get things done' presentation with speakers followed by a Q&A session. A practical workshop filled with inspiring speakers, practical solutions and tools to make you capable of reducing your carbon footprint and do your bit for our climate.

The event is chaired by Sue Smith as Climate Ambassador of Cropredy WI and funded by ESRC 1AA - Empowering Communities: Enhancing Carbon Capability for Climate Action.

Book your ticket via a link in Sue Smith's message sent out by Sandra on 12 August or ask Delia.

'Don't miss out on this exciting chance to become that capable woman'

Friday 26 September for Caroline's MacMillan Coffee Morning 10.30-12.30pm for a lively get-together ###

08/08/2025

Our August Members' Meeting which took place yesterday 7 August as a summer social event in Janet's garden to which members brought a veritable feast of delicious finger foods for our enjoyment following Sandra's meeting.

We had a a tour of Janet's garden and then sat down to engage with our neighbours on current issues, gardening tales and holiday plans. The weather was perfect for this delightful August meeting.

Our thanks to Janet, our splendid host, and to her team of helpers who made the afternoon so perfectly accessible for all members.
Plus many thanks from Margaret to those members kindly donating jam jars ###

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06/08/2025

I am sure we are all looking forward to our August meeting tomorrow 7 August which is being held in Janet's garden at 53 St. Mary's Road at 2.30pm Please bring a plate of food to share and a portable chair.

A rain jacket and sensible shoes would also be a good idea to bring.

It will be a lovely occasion for members to enjoy being together ###

25/07/2025

Forthcoming WI events for all members.

Craft Group - Monday 28 July at 2.00pm at Janet's house - 53 St. Mary's Road. Postcode OX17 3HA. For ongoing crafting and thoughts and ideas for our 2025 Christmas Tree event at St. Mary's, Adderbury.

Meriel's Book Group for Tuesday 29 July at Cindy's home to discuss our latest read - Hamnet.

Our August Members' Meeting social event to be held in Janet's garden at 53 St. Mary's Road, Adderbury - 2.30pm to 4.30pm. Please bring a plate of finger food and a portable chair where possible.

Founder's Day and Climate Ambassador Sue Smith event for Friday 19 September at Adderbury's Rugby club. Further details to be sent out and free tickets for the event may be booked now via Delia ###

15/07/2025

Our Artists Book event, when Meg Richardson helped members begin their journey towards the creation of their own books with samples of her own work to inspire and encourage ###

13/07/2025

Photos for our Artists Books event last Wednesday 9 July 2025 at The Institute, which was absolutely fascinating and extremely interesting ###

13/07/2025

Our flower farm visit and more photos to view. We were all impressed by Tif's presentation and tour and hope we may visit again, sometime. Perhaps for the Christmas Fair ag the end of November ###

10/07/2025

Our much-anticipated Artistes Book event with Meg Richardson on Wednesday, 9 July, last night, at The Institute, which was resoundingly successful and very much enjoyed by all attending members.

Meg had brought along a marvellous display of her books including some for sale, which were most welcomed, even giving each of us a little book as a keepsake.

All necessary equipment was kindly provided - scalpels, cutting boards, paper, grey & coloured card, glue and brushes, newspaper, printed covering paper, ribbon, and all needed tools including a hammer, long and short rulers and hole-making tool.

Meg gave excellent instructions and demonstrations for making our first artist book and was extremely helpful in all matters, as we took our first tentative steps towards a new & aspirational craft goal.

A altogether brilliant afternoon and here a few photos for you to view ###

ps I was so keen to do my write up and quite forgetful of needing to upload my photos, which had escaped my attention. I will post now and do a photo post this afternoon. My apologies ###

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10/07/2025

Just a few more flower views from Monday 7 July at Chippy Flower Farm ###

10/07/2025

A most fascinating and interesting visit to Chippy Flower Farm on Monday 7 July, on a beautiful, hot and windy summer's evening. The farm is perched atop a high hill and the wind's action drove us into Tif's display-sales area for her talk about her farm, which has been in existence for the last 4 1/2 years We all delighted in the bunches of drying flowers hanging from the ceiling & particularly the dried seedheads of Nigella (aka Love-in-a-mist), the books, hand creams, flower vases and pottery containers made by Tif's sister. Tif is the farm's owner-manager, working full-time with 6 volunteer helpers to manage the site, grow and care for the flowers, prepare wedding flowers, their PYO areas and provide learning courses.

Pathways between the different growing areas allowed closer inspections of the great variety of grown flowers, such as, Monarda (aka Beebalm, Bergamot, Oswego tea, made by native American Indians), Delphiniums, Alchemilla mollis (aka Ladies mantle), Mallow, Dahlia, lavender, Bladder campion, Cerinthe (aka Honeyworts), roses, poppies, Nigella and calendula everywhere.

The site has no running water so they must harvest rain water in deep troughs adjacent to the polytunnels, which are replenished by run-offs via channels on the sides of these tunnels. They take flasks of hot water with them to help with flower stem conditioning and are often on site at 4am to make flowers ready for collection, their PYO flower area, wedding and memorial flowers.

A Christmas Fair is definitely an event to look forward to and here are a few flower photos to view ###

10/07/2025

Three more photos from our Members' Meeting last Thursday for you to see. A very good meeting and we all enjoyed hearing from Analiza Jones ###