Brixham WI

Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Cribbage on Wednesday 2nd April

Cribbage tomorrow at Brixham Rugby club at 2.pm.

All welcome.  Come and learn, or come and play. 

I just discovered that the card turned over on the pack, is called the starter card. How many more points would you get if the starter card were a Jack?

Introducing….

….Wendy C’s, Fiona’s and

Loz’s bug house at home!

Sunday, 30 March 2025

Recycling blister packs!

It seems that both the Boots shop at Wren Retail park and the Superdrug in Torquay will recycle medicine & vitamin empty blister packs, free of charge.

There is a ‘but’! They won’t accept bulk recycling - see the photo above - so it is either not feasible for one or two of our members to collect and take all of our blister packs, as they would be pretty fed up of trying to post them all through a narrow slot! 

So, we could pay for a bag from a specialist recycling company as indicated in the earlier post. (Not from WI funds, as I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t qualify under the WI and/or charity commission regulations) This would mean people to order the bag and bring it to a meeting then take it to a collection point. 
Or, each of us remembers to take our own empty packs over to Superdrug in Torquay when we go there!

Here is the weekly calendar update…

……with advance notice of our next LotE meeting on 30th April, only 20 places available for Insect Surveying and Recording, meeting at Berry Head car park. There will be a sign up sheet at our next Institute meeting for this one.

In other news: all of the kind food donations you made at our March meeting were delivered to the Brixham Food Bank next to the Strand Bakery last week.

Saturday, 29 March 2025

LotE at Brixham WI!

More pollinator activity going on! Ann W has put up her bug house and Anj has spotted a bee on some nettles and something else on a pretty germander speedwell flower on her allotment