February and March

Exercising on a chair

February saw Judith King encouraging us to stay active by exercising on our our chairs, the talk was informative and fun and everybody enjoyed getting a little bit physical.

The competition was a hand made Valentine's card this was judged by our speaker and the winner was Carole Wood, followed closely by Shirley Brokenshaw in 2nd place and Betty Dumont in 3rd place. 

March Meeting-

The next meeting is 14th March at 7.30, speaker is Norman Maudsley and the subject is Devon Air Ambulance.

*We desperately need new Committee Members, our AGM is in May, so please consider joining, and
 if you need more information please ask at the next meeting.

*Craft Club meeting 16th March to discuss its future, please attend if you have any interest in keeping the craft club going, or have any ideas how to revive interest. The meeting is at the New Road Community Centre, 2-4pm.

*We need your ideas for trips and outings, where would you like to visit? What kind of things do you want your committtee to arrange? Please let us know.

*March Competition ~ TBC

*Munch Bunch Lunch~ Mount Pleasant Dawlish Warren on 29th March at 12.00. There will be lunch and skittles.

Tinsel and Sparkle, Poems and Carols

December Christmas Party 🎉 

The party on Tuesday 13th December was well attended and great fun. There was lots going on, with food aplenty! There were amusing placemats, pass the parcel, Christmas crackers and a lovely lady playing a keyboard to which we had a fun singalong. The Christmas card competition was very difficult to judge as the standard was so high, the winner was Barbera Whitear. Maureen Hunter had written a fabulous poem about the WI Christmas party, which she read out and had everybody laughing. And Norma did her annual singalong to the twelve days of Christmas, which everyone enjoyed very much. All in all a fun night and a fabulous end to a very successful 50th Anniversary Year! 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our members and friends x

Carole's Cupcakes sugarcraft class

Christmas Cupcakes

On Wednesday evening 14 members enjoyed a sugarcraft class at Carole's Cupcakes in Teignmouth. Carole is a very patient lady! Everybody enjoyed themselves immensely and took home 2 Cupcakes each which they had decorated with a fun Christmas theme. See the photos below 😊

November Meeting

Despite the miserable weather lots of members came to the November meeting. Julie Walton was acting President as Pam was on holiday. The speaker was Robert Hesketh who told us stories about haunted Inns in Devon. It was a thoroughly enjoyable talk. For this meeting we set out the room with tables and this seemed more sociable and was popular with most of the members. The competition this month was a creepy cupcake and there were only two entrants, the winner was Marion Wyatt with Janet Williams runner up, Robert Hesketh kindly judged the competition for us. The photos were taken by Pat Rowley. Pictured are Janet Williams, Robert Hesketh and Marion Wyatt. (Left to Right) Also the winnng cake.

Members Meal Outing

The Smugglers Inn was the latest venue for our members to enjoy a lovely meal. There were 17 lovely ladies t this event and a fabulous fun time was had by all.

Harvest Supper and 50th Birthday

What a lovely evening our Harvest supper was this year. As it was Teignmouth WIs 50th Birthday celebration too, the members were invited to dress in their 1960's clothing. Many of our members dressed up and they looked absolutely fabulous! Please brows the photos below. The food was delicious thanks to a very hard working catering team, the members enjoyed hand carved ham, quiche, salads and potatos, with fruit crumbles and ice cream for dessert. There were gales of laughter as the members enjoyed a game of tiddlywinks on each of the tables and there was also a quiz, Maureen Hunter did a history of the Teignmouth WI. The competition was a vegetable print animal and was won by Barbara Whitear. Music from the 1960s was played in the background, and there was a beautiful birthday cake which was ceremoniously cut by Teignmouth longest standing members, Rosemary Tettmar and  Pat Stone.

fun evening was had by all.

Teignside Group Meeting

It was Teignmouth WIs turn to host the group this year. The Teignside group consists of Shaldon and Ringmore, Stokeinteignhead, Bishopsteignton as well as the hosts Teignmouth. The theme was Golden as its Teignmouths 50 birthday. Shaldon and Ringmore won the group competition. The speaker was Simon Hall who was amusing and interesting, he spoke about his work as a TV journalist and about the detective novels that he writes, several members purchased books from him on the night. The catering team worked very hard to produce a wonderful buffet for everyone to enjoy and the compliments were flying around. Pictured below are a few photos from the evening, our Speaker, Simon Hall, the lovely food and just a few of the competition entries. A fabulous fun evening, enjoyed by everyone.

Historical, histerical September

This months meeting was well attended by around 50 members, the speaker/singer was Maggie Duffy who entertained us immensely. Maggie told tales of old Devon, sang songs and  recited poems all of which was very enjoyable and amusing. The competition was 'an old spoon' which was won by Barbera Whitear, 2nd was Beryl Hopkins and third place was Eileen Webb. The members brought along lots of interesting spoons for judging and the photos can be seen below.