Torrington Day Trip

34 of our ladies had a fabulous and interesting day out visiting Torrington Glass Factory, where they watched the glass blowing in action. The ladies enjoyed lunch and shopping too and everybody agreed it was a grand day out! Here are just a couple of pictures from the day.

Bright Sparks and Scarfs

Last weeks Bright Sparks group was lead by Mauteen Hunter and was titled '40 ways to tie your scarf' just in time for the cooler days When we will be getting our scarfs on. The afternoon was great fun and everyone enjoyed it. Here are a few picture from the day, with thanks to Yvonne Lamond

Muffin The Mule

At our September meeting our members were entertained by the famous puppet, Muffin the mule, and his puppet friends. Will McNally gave the talk and introduced us to Muffin, the original puppet and told us all about Muffins history, as well as Muffins many animal friends. The members were shown footage of an original tv show, and encouraged to sing along with the well know song. It brought back happy memories of times gone by for a lot of our ladies and everybody throughly enjoyed it.

First Aid Awareness

Six of our members took part in a first aid awareness course this week, they found it hugely informative and great fun!

August Cream Tea

Lots of ladies attended our August Cream Tea, the Mayor and Mayoress were in attendance, and a great time was had by all. Some of the members made knitted cakes for the competition, which you can see in the photograph below.

Sunshine, fine food and friendship

Here are a selection of photos of our evening at The Smugglers Inn There were 20 of us and we had a lovely evening of food & friendship a perfect ending to a warm summer day.

Afternoon Tea and skittles!

What a busy day Wednesday was! Teignmouth WI hosted 39 members of the Honiton Disabled group, for afternoon tea, our members worked hard to make sure the group had a throughly nice time, which by all accounts they did. Special thanks to Dee our catering manager who works so hard for these events with enthusiasm and a smile, as all our ladies do. The evening saw some of our ladies at a skittles match with other local WI groups, it was good fun and enjoyed by all, the evening raised £60 for the WI's Denman appeal. Below there are a few photos from each event.

St Michaels Flower Festival

Our WI members were invited to take part in the Flower festival at St Michaels Church in Teignmouth, Francis Dingley and Chris Hodgkinson offered to make the display. The theme of the festival is For All The Saints and they chose Saint Anne, the mother of Mary, as she is the patron saint of mothers, grandmothers, homemakers and sailors so seemed appropriate for a seaside WI. See the photograph below of their fabulous display. Well done ladies.

June Meeting

This month 38 members and 4 visitors came to our meeting, our scheduled speaker had been taken ill so a lovely lady called Leoni Wild stood in for him and regaled us with stories of her career in the performing arts. Leoni had worked in both TV and theatres and had many fascinating and amusing stories to tell us, the talk was enjoyed by all the ladies. Our competition this month was 'A Favourite Holiday Photograph, there were several entries but the winner was brought in by Mary Nixon, second place was Francs Dingley and 3rd was Doreen Rogers.

Liverpool Conference

Maureen Hunter, our President, went to the WI conference in Liverpool last week as our Link Delegate and had a great time, both resolutions passed and full report to be given at our next meeting