MAY – Monday 13th May (due to Bank Holiday) 7pm, Hindmarsh Hall. ‘From Stories to Stiches’ with Ailish Henderson. Competition: A handmade stitched item.
Monday 7th January – Members’ Night with a variety of interesting workshops to choose. Please enrol with Celia Collinson beforehand.
SUBS ARE DUE AT THIS MEETING, PLEASE PLACE CASH (or cheque) IN AN ENVELOPE MARKED WITH YOUR NAME – £42 or £20.50 if a dual member.
Thursday 6th December – Centenary Carol Service at St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle.
Thursday 20th December – Christmas Coffee Morning, kindly hosted by Pam Muggleton from 10.30am.
Monday 5th November – Rothley House Gardens – A talk by Isobel Shaw.
Competition – A jam jar arrangement.
There will also be a table top bring and buy sale of scarves and gloves.
The competition is for a dog ornament and a decorated bra for the Hotspur Group competition THIS WILL BE A POOLED SUPPER evening, so please bring a plate to share – mainly savoury requested and not too much, perhaps just as much as you think you may eat! Don’t forget your mug and plate too.
Winter Warmer ‘Witches’ Lunch’ . See Joan Davidson for tickets and Ethel and Judith would be grateful for offers from cooks to do soup and crumbles, and also for people to serve.
Caroline is running the Tombola and any donations to that will be gratefully received.
Julie Roper from the local Aln Gift Shop is offering a 10% discount to WI members on this day.
Summer Lunch at Foxton Hall Golf Club – Tuesday 21st August.
Spouses and Partners welcome – talk first followed by business discussion.
WI Centenary Garden to be officially dedicated on 30th July at 10.30am with group photo!
Monthly meeting on Monday 4th June with talk by Marjorie Mountain entitled ‘Cross Roads to Cairo’. THIS WILL BE A POOLED SUPPER. Competition: An interesting/unusual travel photograph.
(Our Catering Team will be serving a ‘Royal Wedding Tea’ supper, so why not dress for the occasion and wear a hat!
AGM MONDAY 9TH APRIL AT 7PM A collection of archive material will be on display.
Friday 16th March – Centenary Birthday Dinner with entertainment by ‘The White Gardenias’ – BYO drinks, glass, cutlery, crockery. Tickets only – available at February meeting.
This is a members/ticket only night with invited guests.
with Stoker Frater – a local farmer.
Competition – Home made biscuits.
Thursday 18TH January – informal coffee morning at Bistro 23 10.30am.
The next meeting is our ‘Members’ Night’ on Monday 8th January 2018 at 7pm in the Hindmarsh Hall.
Celia has arranged lots of fun activities!
The next meeting will be our CHRISTMAS PARTY on Monday 4th December at 7pm in the Hindmarsh Hall. This is a members’ only night, and, if you did not add your name to the guest list at the last meeting, please contact a committee member to do so. Please bring a gift-wrapped ‘Secret Santa’ present to the value of £5. Also, bring your own drinks, glass, plate and cutlery. AND, wear something sparkly for the fun and games, and ‘Mis-spent Yuke’ will provide music entertainment for about an hour.
INFORMAL CHRISTMAS COFFEE MORNING on Thursday 14th December from 10am, by kind permission of our hard-working Secretary – Pam Muggleton – at Rosedale Lodge, Alnmouth.
RSPB warden, Paul Morrison, will talk to us about the work on Coquet Island.
Coquet Island is an RSPB reserve about one mile off Amble, Northumberland. It is home to a large colony of nesting seabirds and is specially protected under European Law for birds such as the roseate tern, one of our rarest nesting seabirds. Coquet now holds 90 per cent of the UK’s roseate tern population.
Several thousand nesting Sandwich, Arctic and common terns accompany the roseates in May, June and July, and thousands of puffins occupy the main part of the island.
Like many places in Northumberland, the reserve is rich in human history and has been occupied since the 7th Century, initially as a monastic cell, later a lighthouse station and now by the RSPB wardens, who live on the island through the spring and summer. Birds are everywhere on Coquet and the plateau and gardens are home to several hundred nesting eider ducks.
For this reason, the island is designated as a sanctuary and the public are not allowed to land.
Coffee at Bistro 23 – meet at 11 a.m.
16 March – Birthday Dinner, celebrating 99 years of our WI!
Tickets, £15, available from Yvonne or at the March meeting.
This is now almost fully booked. If you wish to help and haven’t yet put your name down, please contact Joan Davidson asap.
Train leaves 11:08 and we are in coach C.
For those who wish – meet at The Booking Office, Wetherspoons on Waverley Bridge at 5 pm for a meal before catching the train home at 19:35, coach F.
A Historic Murder Case. Stephanie Yearnshire will explain the case of Mary Ann Cotton.
Northumbria Blood Bikes – an organisation which uses volunteer motorcyclists to transport blood and urgent medical supplies.
Our annual outing to Beamish museum – £22 to include coach and entry to the museum. Picnic lunch may be a good idea as outlets could be busy.
Coach leaves from the village church at 9:30.
Sean Murray – Garden Design & Question Time.
Chris Harrison of Waulkmill Cider, near Langholm, started his business in Sept of 2010 after he researched the plight of Scottish apple varieties. Over the years most of Scotland’s apples have been dismissed as not commercially viable and therefore most orchards have been grubbed up.
Apples and pears are sourced from all over Dumfries & Galloway and used to make Muckle Toon Rosie Cider and Perry, and varieties flavoured with blackcurrants or rose hips are also available. Another product is Cyser, an old recipe in which honey, heather and apple cider are blended together. Apple syrups are available in a variety of flavours, including rum, amaretto, brandy and whisky. The skins and pulp left over after apple pressing are sold to local pig farmers. In his craft-brewed ciders and perries he makes a point of using only fruit, with no added glucose.
Scottish Cider and Perry made using very old Traditional methods. Cider vinegar is produced by the “Orlene’s” method of production and can take up to 9 months and is then matured in 90 yr Old Oak Rum Barrels.
The cider is called MUCKLE TOON ROSIE, this is because Langholm( Chris’s home town) is called the muckle toon.
Competition – a recipe using cider.
Queen’s Birthday party in the park – volunteers needed – see our front page.
Spirit bus to Rothbury (you can use your bus pass). Further details at June meeting.
Thank you Sandra – what an interesting talk from a highly entertaining speaker. Remember – don’t wear black near bees unless you want to get stung; it may date back to when black bears went after their honey. Just one of a host of interesting facts.
The Alnwick and District Beekeepers Association (ADBKA) is one of three Beekeeping Associations in Northumberland and Tyneside and one of the oldest Beekeeping Associations in the Country.
They are dedicated to the welfare of the Honey Bee, and strive to teach (and learn) more about the craft every year. Membership of about 120 ranges from complete novices to people who have been keeping bees for 50 years or more.
Come and see the new Spring & Summer collections, relax and enjoy a glass of wine. Raffle.
Proceeds go to Alnmouth Women’s Institute.
Don’t forget, we’re having a pie and pea supper after the business session.
This will be our Annual Meeting at which we shall elect a new committee, so now is your chance to have a say.
As Janis said, being on committee is not too onerous and usually just commits you to one extra meeting per month on the Monday before the full meeting – and it does give you the chance to have some say in how our Institute runs.
Each year since our formation in 1918 we have celebrated our birthday, usually in the form of a meal. This year is no exception and as we celebrate our 98th birthday we hope as many members as possible will be able to join us. Tickets available from Yvonne at our next meeting.
Our thanks to Daniel for a very enjoyable demonstration – lots of ideas to try out. We’re all envious of Judith who won the spatchcock chicken!
Situated in the heart of rural Northumberland, Turnbull’s of Alnwick are a sixth generation Family Butchers, established in 1880.
Thanks John for a most informative talk – we’ll watch Clarissa and Jack in Silent Witness through new eyes now!
John is a retired crime-scene investigator with Northumbria Police who has taught forensic photography at the Police National Forensic Training Centre as well as spending several years in the Middle East where he was a consultant in forensic science to the Justice Department training Arab police officers.
Born in Lesbury, he has written books on Alnmouth and Lesbury. His family has a long history in the area and he is a member of the Alnmouth Local History Group.