A Sea Holly between two Roses!

 Do you see what I did there? Thank you to Pat, Barbara and Val P.

Just in case anyone else missed it….

 You will also be able to sign up for the willow weaving workshop on Wednesday 25th at the Rugby Club - free, organised by our Life on the Edge team especially for us. Two sessions are available, to give us lots of spaces - don’t miss out! 2 until 3.30 and 3.30 until 5

 We have done pinks and reds - now we are moving on to some splendid roses! Here is the first, really spectacular rose, growing over a former plum tree in Jill P’s garden. Wow! More coming very soon!

Red Roses for English Rugby!

 Calling all rugby fans, people who love to crochet and anyone with high blood pressure….. an unusual grouping, you may think, so, read on…..

Support the Red Roses English Rugby team by making some red roses! Did you know that research shows that the rhythmic nature of crochet can lower blood pressure and steady your breathing, making it as beneficial for your wellbeing as it is for your creativity.

Click on this link for all of the details: https://learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/courses/craft-red-roses-rugby-yarn-art-project-crochet-granny-square-rugby-ball-with-felicity-jennings-parts-1-2-2025-06-18-180000/

Here is a beautiful rose from Pat to brighten up the dull old calendar of events. (Of course, the events are not dull!)

 

Prawle Point & Life on the Edge

 For those interested in our Life on the Edge project: Prawle Point is the site of many of the invertebrates highlighted by the team. Here it it, a beautiful stretch of coastline, east of Salcombe. Prawle Point NCI can be spotted in the first photo.

On Wednesday at our Birthday meeting, you can put your name down for the willow weaving workshop on Wednesday 25th June. Don’t miss out! An expert willow weaver is coming to show how to do it!

Book Worms report from Rebecca

 A very small number of us bookworms met Wednesday at the golf club. We had been reading Margaret Foster ‘Keeping the world away’. Enjoyed by some with a slow start to it, given up on by some of us! After a lovely catch up and putting the world to right we took home this months book. Which is Anne Tyler ‘French braid’. We do have one space in our group if you’d like to join us. We’re a friendly group who discuss everything you can think of as much as the books!

Other books read this month include The Misremembered man, conclave, shard lake and onyx storm

Happy Birthday Brixham WI!

 

Red!

 Stunning photo of a magnificent poppy from Fiona!

Monthly coffee morning - from Tina

 Drink the coffee and smell the roses. We had a good coffee morning at Lupton House today, learned some tips, had a giggle and talked a lot of nonsense!

Brilliant!

Red!

 To warm your heart, here is an elegant acer from Carolyn, a great geranium from Mary W and three ravishing roses from Lynn, Jayne S and Jill H. Also, geraniums and a beautiful bottle brush plant from Val P. 

Thank you all for sharing!

Red flowers….

 Jane M begins with these beauties:

followed swiftly by Tina:

Final flurry of pretty pink flowers:

 Tomorrow we will move on to red! 

From Lynn: 

Sugar mouse pink from Annie: 

And finally, taken on a repeat of the coastal path walk we did with Sam and Joe from LotE, complete with a buff tailed bumble bee! 

 

Bee friendly number 13

 From Jan W’s garden 🩷

In the pink with Sheila! And more!

Number 9 in our series of pink flowers in our gardens! Starting early this morning….anyone else care to join in? ♥️

The beautiful pink blooms are streaming in now! Numbers ten, eleven and twelve: is this a rose from Jill H?, a pretty perfect peony from Barbara and Patsy, a geranium cutting from Leamington Spa given by Patsy to Tina.

 

Flower of the Day

This is a long standing feature of our Facebook group, and as the latest series of photos are so gorgeous, I thought I would take the time to share on here, too. Please post your own flower photos, too! 

Pinks (?) from Mary W: 

Black lace (?) or sa mucus nigra from Jill P:

Palm from my garden: 

Daphne from my garden: 

And is this called ice plant? 

It is definitely a pink one! 

This gorgeous geranium from Loz: 

A beautiful verbena from Sally:

And a delightful dahlia (?) from Jane M:

 

Pocket Meadows!

Some are flourishing! Here is Jacqui’s:

This one is Lynn’s:

Mine appears to be mainly bindweed, speedwell and couch grass, the things I would expect to grow there anyway! Does anyone have any photos to share? Put them on WhatsApp and I can transfer them! 

 

Cribbage was a lot of fun this afternoon!

 So very good for those little grey cells, too! Thank you, Tina, for organising us!

From Tina….

 Tomorrow, (Wednesday 4th), join us for cribbage at Brixham Rugby Club downstairs at 2pm. Newbies welcome, as well as experts!!!

See you there.

And.... this hand was dealt to me on my phone crib app. . How many points?

NFWI Annual Meeting - a virtual one this year.

 The NFWI Annual Meeting is this week! On Wednesday, Lynn, our President will be settling in all day to watch proceedings and vote for us on the resolution. There will be a business meeting to begin with, discussing the changes to be made because of the Companies Act. Following that there will be two speakers: Angel Strawbridge (of Escape to the Chateau) and Emma Bridgwater who has designed and manufactured a new WI mug, on sale now.

 

Something worth a visit! Wow!

 I have copied and pasted these images from the Life on the Edge blog pages - click here to see more of their activities: https://www.southdevon-nl.org.uk/south-devons-small-wonders/

Life on the Edge project

 Here is some of the feedback from today’s Life on the Edge afternoon; we are so privileged to have access to such expertise! A really memorable couple of afternoons, in April and May with their team.

Thank you, Tina, for the photos.