Adderbury & District WI

21/03/2026

Our upcoming meting and group events such as our Mahjong group, Book groups and Discussion group and, of course, our next Members' Meeting on Thursday 2 April at The Institute ###

21/03/2026

Our fundraising Burlesque and Cabaret event last night Friday 20 March 2026 which we all enjoyed very much indeed. Something new for members and their guests to enjoy, helping to raise much needed funds for our new Defibrillator purchase for the village we are hoping to fund this year. All 60 tickets were sold and to add to that amount a bar and refreshments stall provided a host of delicious savoury pastry items and our famous cherry buns, all willingly made by members. These gave more than a delicious sufficiency to enjoy for more essential funding. What the final sum raised will be is yet to be made known. Yet that aside, the evening's event provided a great deal of amusement and pleasure to everyone who in return must offer a huge vote of thanks to the organising committee and members who worked so diligently for this marvellous evening. And, of course, great thanks to our entertainers - Cream Tease of Oxford, The Divine Cabaret and Magician Paul for their wonderful performances ###

Also, many thanks to Delia for her photos ###

18/03/2026

Now we are all looking forward to our Burlesque Fundraising evening this coming Friday 20 March at which Miss Cherry Buns and her troupe of dancers will perform for members and friends.

Delicious refreshments of cherry-topped buns and cheese straws will be served and a very pleasant evening is anticipated. We are pleased to say that all event tickets have now been sold.

Here is a photo of an earlier and very well received evening when Lauren Dean aka Miss Cherry Buns joined us for a demonstration of her skills, with Caroline and Janet joining in ###

18/03/2026

Our Adderbury Village litter-pick on Saturday 14 March which was probably the best day of the year so far, weather-wise . A group of enthusiastic members and friends gathered together at The Institute ready for our task in hand. Margaret brought the loaned equipment from Cherwell District Council - the yellow high-viz jackets, gloves, pickers and bags - which Sandra had collected the day before, intending to bring with her that morning but unfortunately for all of us, a virus had struck resulting in Sandra having to miss our event, which news made everyone feel very sad.

Our group split into several sub-groups for our litter-picking, and our plan was for us to re-group at the home of Ros, where we were to leave our bags of rubbish, and returned equipment, for its Monday morning collection.

I think we all very much enjoyed our village walk and here are two photos - of Kay and Margaret - from our Saturday morning's event ###

06/03/2026

Our Members' Meeting for March and our Annual Meeting at which our new President Maureen was chosen and elected. Our Committee members were re-elected, with some new members too. We also have a new Treasurer, Pauline, who has enthusiastically agreed to serve for the year ahead, like our President and Committee members. Members were all very sad to see our previous Treasurer, Debs, step down from the post she has
filled with great diligence and enthusiasm.

We were also delighted to welcome our WI Adviser, Kay Shortland, to our Annual Meeting whose help and assistance with our voting was, as always, much appreciated. Thank you Kay for joining us.

We expressed great admiration and thanks for the work of Sandra, our previous President, and we look forward to her continuing work with our local water testing duties we have been involved in over the last few years, as well as her many other contributions to our branch.

For our refreshments this evening, a glorious array of delicious puddings were prepared and presented by various committee members, for which we all gave great heartfelt thanks. Yours truly's only one regret for our evening was that we seem not to have taken any photographs of these gorgeous puddings, which we were thrilled to enjoy.

And then we became engaged with a fine quiz, organised by Bernice and Ros, with questions on various events and happenings of this past year, which brought our evening to a close with a bang!

Sincere thanks to all members who contributed to the success of this excellent meeting ###

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03/03/2026

Our Members' Meeting and Annual Meeting on Thursday 5 March at 7.20pm at The Institute and a Pudding fiesta delight to enjoy. Members are requested to bring their own bowl and spoon plus your coffee mug for a hot drink.

Also, the new-to-be completed membership form all WI members have been now been asked to fill in and to bring with them on Thursday and signed with Thursday's date, 5 March 2026 This to be done before membership subs are paid, either on this date, or before 31 March 2026. Payment may be made either by cash , cheque or BACS.

Both agendas have been sent out plus a printable copy of the new membership form to be completed, and a few copies will be available on Thursday for those members unable to print at home.

Also to be much looked-forward to, our Burlesque and Cabaret Fundraising evening on Friday 20 March at 7.20pm at The Institute, and a report on the Murder Mystery at Eastrop Grange event at February's members' meeting, plus an event photo . All photos are now on our Website for viewing ###

08/02/2026

Our 5 February Members' Meeting when John Casey brought his production team with his murder mystery performance at Eastrop Manor and in which members were able to take to the stage and join in with his performance which, by all accounts, provided great entertainment for all members. For those members not performing in the play, their role was to gather into teams to study the play, question the clues and finally come to their conclusions on 'who dun it'. The winning team won a prize and everyone had a very jolly evening together. Here are a few photos of the evening ###

02/02/2026

We are all looking forward to February's Members' Meeting this week 5 of February for "The Curious Affair at Eastrop Grange - a murder mystery by John "Sherlock" Casey, performed with some of our members and John as Sherlock Holmes.

The evening promises to be greatly entertaining, with clues to look out for by teams of members, in hot pursuit and lovely refreshments to aid their research before the final outcome. And, of course, the murderer's id will not be known until that final outcome.

So break a leg all you stage-struck members and deliver a great performance.

Business matters will be dealt with at the onset of our meeting ###

22/01/2026

Our first Mahjong afternoon this week on Monday 19 January, when twelve members gathered at Church House for an excellent afternoon's fun.

And today, Thursday 22 January, Margaret and Bernice are meeting to review gallery photos of earlier years, taking down those that are now superfluous to our needs ###

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08/01/2026

Our Members' Meeting for January tonight at 7.20pm at The Institute.

We are to have a presentation by Stephanie Lawless of Katharine House Hospice which is sure to be very interesting. Our business section and refreshments will follow and there will the opportunity to catch up with everybody following on from our December social event and Christmas.

Happy New Year wishes to everyone and see you all tonight.

Here's a last view of our 2025 Christmas tree ###

17/12/2025

On Monday, our Mahjong group celebrated the season with mince pies and mulled wine while enjoying our lively games with tiles and friendly chatter. A most fitting final afternoon of Mahjong for this our first year of such meetings.

On Tuesday, Bernice and Margaret met for a little necessary work on our Website gallery. We did not complete all we wished to do yet it was a satisfactory conclusion to the work we wished to undertake for 2025.

2026 -

Monday 5 January for our 1st Mahjong group meeting at 2pm at The Library.

Thursday 8 January for our 1st Members' Meeting to hear a presentation by Katharine House Hospice.

Monday 12 January for our 1st Discussion group meeting at 2pm at The Burrow and new and all previous members would be most warmly welcomed.

Tuesday 22 January for our 1st meeting for Meriel's Book group to gather at The Bell Inn at 6.30pm to discuss our latest book.

Book Group will meet on the 14 January and details may be gathered from Bernice.

Bernice and Margaret will meet on Thursday 22 January to complete our Website Gallery work.

Margaret was the very lucky recipient of our WI Christmas tree which looks exceedingly well at home.

Merry Christmas wishes to all Members of our Adderbury & District
WI ###

09/12/2025

Here's another view of the photo of our 2025 Christmas tree at St. Mary's Christmas Tree Festival last Saturday 6 December by Chris and our tree's legend ###