DFWI walk at Bovey Tracey

95 WI members from across Devon assembled this morning at Parke National Trust site near Bovey Tracey. The sun shone and we had a really fabulous walk through the woods, along the river and them up and across the fields. I don't think anyone spotted a kingfisher or a dipper.... I wonder why! 

Spot the crocodile! Run, ladies, run! 

Head in the sand?

It's definitely time to take some action! What can we do to cut down on our use of plastics? 

Summer Garden Party

Plenty of delicious cakes were consumed and much fun enjoyed at our August social. Those of us unable to attend clearly missed a treat! 

Some exciting courses ahead with Dart Bay

Just to let you know a couple of updates with our latest events:-

• Saturday 26th August 2017 - Handmade Toys - Church Mice Family, St Martin's Church Hall, Barton, Torquay. 10am - 3.30pm, £25 includes materials and refreshments, bring a packed lunch - 5 places still available 
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• Saturday 2nd September 2017 - More Persian Cookery,  This has now been replaced with a Bread making day as the tutor is moving house. The details are still the same, we have 7 places available on this workshop. Coombe Pafford School kitchen, 10am - 4pm, £35 includes materials and refreshments, bring a packed lunch 
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• Thursday 19th October 2017 - Playing with Powertex (mixed media decorative sculpting medium), JAX Studio, Market Forum, Torquay Town Centre. 10am - 3.30pm- £25 includes materials and refreshments, lunch break in town (buy your own).6 places available.
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• Friday 3rd November 2017 - Egg Crafts for Christmas - St Martin's Church Hall, Barton, Torquay. 2.30pm - 7.30pm, £25 includes materials and refreshments. Bring a shared afternoon tea (sandwiches, cakes)  plenty of places available.
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• Friday 1st December 2017 - A Country Christmas - Dart Bay Exclusive Event,Rattery Village Hall, 10am - 3.30pm, £25 includes materials and refreshments, Bring a Shared lunch. Plenty of places available at the moment. 
  

A couple of notes from Julie Ayres' message:

Devon County Show 2017
Thank you to all the members who came and visited our stand at the Devon County Show. Another great display, which prompted one of our first visitors, Esme Gibbins from Poltimore WI, to remark that the frames used reminded her of windows and together we came up with a new slogan 'The WI - a window of opportunity' and next day, with Kate Bailey's help, there was a poster!

I am pleased to report that the request for hand-made poppies for the special Tribute to the First World War in the Craft Marquee at the show far exceeded expectations. Not only was the target of 11,500 reached but well and truly exceeded with 33,000 poppies being produced and beautifully displayed. It was not possible to individually identify all of the poppies but I did see that Bradninch WI had produced a couple of wreaths, one very cleverly made from recycled plastic bottle bases. Thank you to all WIs and individuals who took part.

Fabulous results from the craft group:

At June's craft group, Barbara demonstrated engraving to the group, with these excellent results:

Very effective indeed- I'm hoping Barbara will do a repeat in the Autumn! 

This is a very interesting way to avoid shedding so many microfibres:

As usual, I am unable to include the link in my post here - so you will have to copy the web address into your browser in order to be able to watch the short video. Please do it, it's worth it!