What a glorious morning for our ACWW Women Walk the World. We walked in a very beautiful part of our world, with an excelllent guide, thank you Sue Martin! The brief history and snippets of local history were very interesting, we all apreciated you finding it all out for us. We met Marjorie, sitting quietly in a little bower, and wandered carefully up to the fairy door in the large tree. Marjorie is a sculpture of the Mother of one of the Lupton volunteers. It was made over 30 years ago, it was her final piece at college. She had it in her garden for a while but scared the postman and then offered it to Lupton. It's part metal and clay. (More text below the pictures)
A big thank you to Devon WI for organising such an informative and enjoyable day in Torquay today! The stalls in the hall were varied and interesting - a number of our party couldn’t resist a gorgeous leather handbag! - and the speakers were fascinating! Floella Benjamin was inspiring, amazing …everything we anticipated and so much more! What an inspiring woman!
We learned that membership numbers are enormously reduced, both nationwide and in Devon, as are the number of Institutes. Pre Covid there were about 250 WIs in Devon, now there are only 158. It is good to note that we are not following the trend here! I took some photos of the Devon WI bunting, created by each WI several years ago.
What a wonderful WI week we have! Brixham WI members, for your delectation and delight, here is our programme:
turned out to be a very relaxed and sociable affair! (With fabulous cakes!) We began by running through all of our activities, so that others could see who to ask if they wished to try something new. Sue M described her plans for our ACWW Women Walk the World morning on 28th April at Lupton House - we will all focus on it being a sunny, dry day! A big thank you to Viv Watts and Hazel Raybould who were our tellers, and were most helpful. We appreciate all of our lovely members who each put in a lot of effort to make everything run so smoothly.
Wednesday evening: we have one spare ticket for Mrs Harris Goes to Paris at Brixham theatre £2.50
Also:
Jan W and Mary H are going to see 'A Sting in the Tale' at The Palace Theatre on Friday 21st and they have a spare ticket. If anyone is interested, please let us know!
Welcome to April, the beginning of another WI year! We already have our full quota of members signed up for the coming year! If you are not a member but would like to be, please contact our sister WIs in Galmpton & Churston, Paignton or Stoke Gabriel. You will find email details here on our blog: Look in the top left column.
We still have some spaces in our Book Worms group (they meet on the second Wednesday morning of each month), if any of our members are interested? Friendly, no judgment made if you didn’t read or like the book!
We all enjoyed Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo and agreed that the characters were sympathetic and that they faced many of the same dilemmas and situations that we all have to deal with at some time in life.
We also discussed two books which were recently adapted for television but were careful not to give away the endings because not everyone had seen them!
Anthony Horwitz – Magpie Murders
Agatha Christie - Why Didn’t They Ask Evans
Some of the other books that we’ve enjoyed recently are:
Safraz Manzoor – Greetings from Bury Park
Louise Penny – The Chief Inspector Gamache series (18 books!)
Ellis Peters - The Cadfael Chronicles
Adriana Trigiani - The Big Stone Gap
Patrick Ness - Chaos Walking
John Green – Looking for Alaska
Colleen Hoover – It Ends With Us
Maeve Binchy – Evening Class
Lessons In Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
Still Life – Sarah Winman
The Reading List – Sarah Nisha Adams
This month’s book is Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz.
Bookworms met today. We read ‘the bread the devil knead’ by Lisa Allen-Agostini. Overall we enjoyed it although it was harder to read as written as the main character would speak on Trinidadian Creole but we agreed if it was written as we would, it wouldn’t have had the same impact. It was a sad story of lifetime abuse but with some hope for the future of the character and we could have used a glossary for some of the words used. We’re hoping for a lighter story this month!
The Brixham WI email to all members has been sent this morning! Please look for it and be sure to read it all through - it has dates for our events and information about our meeting next week!
Is anyone free tomorrow evening and would like to come with us to see Aida at the Princess theatre in Torquay? One of our party is sadly ill and unable to make it. Let me know straight away!
A day late! Sorry! I forgot yesterday!
What a good day for a coffee morning at Lupton House! Sorry you couldn’t make it, Anita Davies and we hope you will soon feel loads better.
Notes from our speaker, Tom Sharples:
No coffee at the Berry Head Hotel this week, nor a walk next Monday as it is Easter!
