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!

A FUN EVENING

Last night we enjoyed a really fun evening with Clair Jackson of http://www.clairjackson.co.uk

It was a very friendly, informal evening with Clair answering our questions and dealing with our make-up problems followed by a demonstration on one of us highlighting some of the points we had been talking about.

Clair is obviously a very talented lady and it was great to have no sales pitch for any particular range of products, just useful specific information.   I think we were all inspired to try her suggestions. An interesting and informative evening.


Thanks to everyone who helped last night, especially our tea/coffee ladies and Sonia who washed up ……. again!

MAKE-UP DEMO & WORKSHOP

Make up Demo and Workshop

Wednesday 25^th March

 7.30pm

At New Road Area Community Centre, (Richard Newton Hall)  Teignmouth

Teignmouth WI have great pleasure in welcoming Clair Jackson who will present a Make-up Demo and Workshop for our members and their guests.

Clair has 25 years experience working in photographic make up, photo shoots and at prestigious events such as Clothes Show Live, Salon International working alongside Toni & Guy

Everyone welcome

£3.00

( pay at door)

Dinner at the Colosseum

About fourteen of us enjoyed a great meal at the Colosseum in Teignmouth last night.  Excellent company, delicious food and wicked desserts - what more could you want?

Our next meal out is on 23rd April at the Dairy Maid so do come along and have a good chat and a laugh.  

Spring Meeting

Last night's talk from Jill Fade was absolutely fascinating on how to crystallise Edible Flowers.  Jill told us a bit about herself and how she came to set up her business Meadowsweet Flowers.

She then demonstrated exactly how to crystallise a flower which she made look very easy!

She then went through which flowers can and can't be used and showed us applications for using the finished flowers.

A most instructive and interesting talk so a big Thank you to Jill.

Our competition last night was "A posy of spring flowers"  and the competition table looked so fresh and smelled so sweet that it felt like Spring had actually arrived!

Winners of the competition were Frances, Pam and Mary but I think it was a difficult choice!