DELICIOUS CREAM TEA

The Cream Tea was an opportunity to catch up with friends and eat delicious scones and cream.  The afternoon was extremely well attended and enjoyed by all.

A BIG thank you to Dee and all the ladies who contributed scones!

GROUP COMPETITION ENTRIES AND THE BEETLE DRIVE

BEETLE DRIVE

Some of us hadn't played BEETLE for years, and at times it seemed chaotic with some rather loose interpretations of the rules, and plenty of confusion when it came to the highest scorer moving on each time, but the Beetle Drive last night was great fun.

Congratulations to Frances Dingley, Mary Nixon and Angela Parkes for their winning entries to the Group Competition, kindly judged by Wendy and Anne from Cofton WI.

Flower Festival

The Flower Festival at St Michael's Church, Teignmouth is on from the 24th to the 29th June - you should go along to see the beautiful floral displays, including Teignmouth WI's.

The theme is "From Quill to Tablet" and our display shows how cookery has changed over time in terms of the utensils used.

Here are some photos of the display (thanks to Pam and Carole)

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Many thanks to Carole and Chris for doing the display.

LUNCH AT THE VINEYARD

A group of us had a very pleasant lunch at The Vineyard, Bishopsteignton today.  It was such a beautiful day and the countryside looked its very best.

Good food and excellent company - see photos - thanks to Carole for bringing a camera - some of us forgot ours!

WEIRD WONDERFUL WEATHER

Last  night we had a very interesting and informative talk on The Work of the Met Office from Karen Dutton.  We learnt a lot about the history of the Met Office and the wide range of services it provides.
Afterwards, there were lots of questions and Karen was rather mobbed in the tea break!

Many thanks to Karen for coming to talk to us and for being so patient with our questions.

Our competition to bring in a photo of Weird, Wonderful Weather was well supported and Karen judged it.  The first prize was won by Norma Woodward with a lovely cloud formation photo.

JUST ONE CORNETTO

Today we enjoyed a lovely lunch Pasta with Pavarotti  followed by a cornetto which was greatly appreciated by all - see below:

 A huge THANK YOU to Dee who did all the work and to everyone who helped.

Plus thanks to Kev for putting out the chairs - we really appreciated it!

See you all at our Monthly meeting on Tues 9th June

GROUP PHOTO

Here is our Group Photo for 2015 - many thanks to Colin Lizius who took the photo and to Pat for arranging it.   Colin has to be congratulated as we were a bit of a rowdy bunch but he soon had us behaving ourselves and in the photo, we all look so well behaved!

(Just click on the image to enlarge it)

A colourful AGM

It was the AGM / Resolutions meeting last night and all members were asked to wear a corsage for our 2015 Group Photo.  I managed to get around before the photo and what a beautiful collection of ladies it was!   I hope to get the professional group photo onto the blog later.

The meeting was efficiently carried out and it was lovely to welcome our WI Advisor, Cynthia.  We also managed to have some fun with a version of What's My Line which was very amusing!

Delicious Dinner at Dairy Maid

A lively group of us enjoyed a delicious meal last night at the Dairy Maid in Teignmouth.  The seafood and fish were especially good but everyone seemed to enjoy their choices to judge by the clean plates at the end!

A very enjoyable evening!

WI Centenary Wall Hanging

Maureen and Pam attended the Spring Council Meeting yesterday and were excited to see our Teignmouth WI contribution to the Centenary Wall Hanging.  

Ours is the second down on the left - well done, Angela and Maureen for all their hard work - it looks great.

Our Group Meeting is to be held on Wednesday 23rd September and the organisers are going to ask to have the Wall Hanging displayed there.  So come along and see it!

Chinese Brush Art with Lisa Class

Last evening at a very well attended Members Meeting, we were fascinated to listen to Lisa explain how she came to do Chinese Brush Art.  Lisa also gave us a practical demonstration of the equipment she uses and how she creates a painting.  This was so interesting and we were amazed at how, with so few lines and so swiftly, Lisa was able to evoke the spirit of what she was painting.

Lisa has offered to run a workshop on a Saturday morning for a group of up to 12 people so if you are interested, let me know and we will try to arrange something.

Our competition to bring in an unusual Chinese item was very well supported and we had a colourful display.  Many thanks to all those members who ransacked the attic and brought items in.

CHINESE BRUSH ART

Come along to our monthly meeting tomorrow (Tuesday 14th April ) at 7.30pm to hear Lisa Class talk about Chinese Brush Art

Here are some examples of her work:

If you want to see more of Lisa's beautiful paintings, go to her website:


http://www.lisaclass.co.uk





Also don't forget the competition to bring in an unusual Chinese item.

See you there!