more Brixham bugs, chez Jill P, Mary H et moi!
Thursday, 3 April 2025
Our LotE species
Would you like to know more about the pollinator species in our LotE project? Look at the description at the bottom of the photo. Scroll down through the posts on this page to find information about the brown banded carder bee, the dotted bee fly, the glow worm, the Mediterranean oil beetle and the silver studded blue butterfly.
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
Looking for more information
About how to look after the wildlife in your garden? Look no further than this link: https://www.thehabitatgroup.uk/gardening-for-wildlife
Life on the Edge
This morning Lynn, Fiona, Anj and I spent a couple of hours in the Chart Room café (it’s a hard life) discussing how we can all make the most of our Life on the Edge project. If you want a bit more information about the pollinators and plants they like, click on this link: https://www.southdevon-nl.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/LotE-Meet-the-species-optimised.pdf
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
A message to all members from the committee - please read to the end!
We are aware that through the process of dealing with the waiting list and allocating spaces as they came up, there have been several times when women have come to Tina (or maybe their friends have) to say that they are sure they are on the waiting list, and when will they be called. We want to explain how the process Has been handled. Any woman who contacted Tina, or any member who gave me a name and email address, were noted in her book with the date of contact. As spaces arose, they were asked to join our Institute (in date order).As time passed, the committee decided to close the waiting list and anyone after that was advised of this.
From time to time, Tina emailed the remaining ladies to ask if they were still interested. Those that did not reply were taken off the list.
From there we had a core of ladies, the earliest had come on the list in 2022, and these were invited to join for April 25 (and we had a bye-law to authorise this).
We took every application on the date of first contact, and so to hear there are women out there who think they are on the list is disturbing. So, to give everyone the chance to fill the few spaces we have, we have decided to do the following.
We will announce that applications are open on a certain date and time and the first ones to apply will get the place(s). We will publish this announcement after 16 April 2025 when everyone in our Institute has had the chance to rejoin. We will put it on the blog, and FaceBook (the old WI Members FB, which is open to all). People have to apply through our WI email, which will be published alongside. Calls to committee members or other routes will not be acceptable. This will disadvantage some, but we will accept emails from their friends who apply on their behalf.
This first come, first served approach is the fairest way we can think of, and the applications made by email will also be taken in time//date order.
Cribbage on Wednesday 2nd April
Cribbage tomorrow at Brixham Rugby club at 2.pm.
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.
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.
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
A Bug House from Lynn
Here's another one, the bumble bees, butterflies and beetles of Brixham will
be spoilt for choice of AirB&Bee's
Friday, 28 March 2025
Thursday, 27 March 2025
Recycling blister packs?
Cast your mind back to January’s meeting when we talked about the short list of resolutions. One of them was about the lack of recycling possibilities for the blister packs used for pills.
Book Share
….. was possibly an unusual event because we all enjoyed the book! It was a weighty tome, and most of us felt it could easily have been shorter! Nevertheless, it was a good story, Homecoming by Kate Moreton.
Pocket Meadows
Take a good look at our blog header photo! This is the butterfly who will be able to travel further afield if we all make our pocket meadows across Brixham! Stuart told us that this one will only travel 50m - so we need to provide a good network!
Photo by Rob Skinner
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Life on the Edge
Our Life on the Edge workshop today, making bug houses, was a great success! Everyone - 27 members - went home with a house for bugs! That will make a difference to the bug population in Brixham!
Friday, 21 March 2025
Next week’s calendar, a couple of days early!
Please note that the Bug House workshop is full - so don’t just turn up, there won’t be space for you!
Thursday, 20 March 2025
March Institute Meeting
We enjoyed a very entertaining and informative talk about Dark Deeds in Devon yesterday. Our speaker was excellent! Afterwards there was plenty to discuss, and a few things to sign: the GDPR form - if you haven’t yet signed it, please find Tina soon! The list to volunteer to make the teas at our meetings next year, from April 25 to March 26. All done, thank you! For the bug house making workshop next Wednesday at the Rugby Club, 2 until 4.30 pm, 30 people are coming! No spaces left!
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
WI Learning Hub
https://learninghub.thewi.org.uk/ click on this link!
Sunday, 16 March 2025
Calendar of our events
Another Sunday, another week on our calendar!
The committee is so very excited to present to you at last our Life on the Edge programme! You will have seen the poster on here already! (Scroll down the page here, if you missed it!) The eagle eyed amongst you will have already spotted from last week’s calendar, that there is a very special workshop on 26th March! Don’t miss out! Places are limited….
Saturday, 15 March 2025
Brixham’s community music
Last night a few of us went to the final evening of music provided by Tom Crump and Music at the Edge. It was emotional and rather wonderful, and was also the first evening of music from the Music Factory CIC.
To continue delivering the activities provided by MusicAtTheEdge, Tom, Andy and the MusicAtTheEdge team have set up a new independent Community Interest Company called The Music Factory CIC. Find us on Companies House here: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.u...
Friday, 14 March 2025
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Book Worms - from Rebecca
Bookworms met today to talk about our latest book. I don’t think Facebook will let me put the title but it was m**der at fleet house by Lucinda Riley. It was an enjoyable easy to read book and reminded me of Elly Griffiths. Those that have read Seven Sisters preferred those over it.
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Recycling blister packs!
Blister pack recycling : it was one of the resolutions we discussed in January.
Life on the Edge
This is one of the invertebrates in the Life on the Edge project we are beginning! The brown banded carder bee! https://www.southdevon-nl.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/LotE-Meet-the-species-optimised.pdf
Photo taken by Stephen Falk
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Monthly Coffee Morning
A small, perfectly formed and very select group of us met for our monthly coffee morning today at the Berry Head Hotel. The camellia in the photo is in their garden - gorgeous!

