Sea Palling, Waxham & District W.I.

Invite You to their next meeting

on

Tuesday 6th April 2010

FLOWER ARRANGING

with Wendy Hughes
(with step by step instruction
for your own creation)

Competition - Flower Arrangers' tool, vase or flower related

at

Sea Palling Village Hall Main Road

7.30pm

(Open to Non-Members £3 at door)

HISTORY OF INSTITUTE

Sea Palling Waxham and District Women’s Institute was first established in March 1968. Sea Palling W.I. was in fact started in  1928, convening in the village hall as now, put on hold during the war years, as were most W.I.s. It also incorporates the village of Horsey whose institute was established by Mrs. Anthony Buxton of Horsey Hall also during the 30’s. The meetings in Horsey then convened in the Village Hall (A small tin hut in the triangle), the Street Horsey. Since Horsey’s meeting place was demolished the W.I .of Horsey then became part of Sea Palling and Waxham. The current lady of Horsey Hall, Mrs. Bridget Buxton is our current president and has been for several years. Our current membership consists of 10 Sea Palling members, Horsey 6, Waxham 1, and Ludham 1; and a lady from West Somerton who is a dual member   

Our meetings are the first Tuesday every month and are open to ladies who we hope will join, but you can just come and give us a try, (we occasionally have men in our audience). Members pay a yearly subscription of £27 and receive the W.I. magazine eight times a year, keeping you informed of the country’s other institutes and the committee’s current ventures and commitments. Sea Palling Waxham & District are a small group of 19 members, we are very friendly, and we’re not quite like Jam and Jerusalem but sometimes, well maybe, you have to laugh!. Our youngest member is 28 and the oldest well, it would ’t be right to disclose. We have fun, learn, make friends, do good works, and quite often hide our lights under a bushel.

Our Presidents tablecloth, (featured at the top of the page) was made by our members. In December 1979 we held a competition and the one produced came from a combination of two designs. The embroidery is roughly a representation of the four seasons. This was compiled and ready for presentation at the March Birthday meeting 1980. September 2006 we had another competition with each member having to embroider their name on a piece of cloth to be attached to another tablecloth, thus being a visible. reminder of members past and present. The competition, won by Monica Green was not only her name but a beautiful picture, all hand embroidered, (and Monica is one of our older members), and having been a member for a good many years

RECENT MEETINGS 

We finished the year with a successful A.G.M., Pudding Tasting, and Quiz.

In November, Rebecca Parsley gave a talk on REFLEXOLOGY, with a demonstration on our member Jackie, who hearly fell asleep as she was given a foot massage. Apparently this is quite usual, for her clients to either fall asleep, or talk constantly.
rebecca was such a "hit" with our members, we're hoping to have her back again with a different treatment.

In October, David Bolton gave us "IMAGES OF NORFOLK", with his wonderful photography slide show, to music. It certainly made us want to get out there with our own cameras, in the hope of getting some wonderful shots too.

In September we had an insight into the world of television quiz shows, such as Weakest Link and 15 to 1, when we heard "The Confessions of a Quiz Queen" by Merrie Longbottom; a humorous account of her time on these Shows - a clever lady! We finished with her giving us a "Simple Quiz", with our President coming first with 9 out of 10.

No Meeting in August

In July we had a very interesting talk from Eric Edwards M.B.E., on life as

a Marshman. With his collection of bygone tools we had an insight into his working life. Might have been thought of as a male subject but we all had an enjoyable evening.

In June we had our garden meeting, and this year we went to Baconsthorpe Old Rectory, the home of Tessa MacCosh. A wonderful warm evening, finished off with tea and cakes. Most of us came away with plants, some which had been left over from a plant swap sale. Look out for the sale next year, proceeds go to charity. Most of us also took the opportunity to look around the lovely church

In May we had our resolutions meeting, S.O.S. for Honey Bees. All members were in favour of the motion which will now be debated at the Annual General Meeting in June.
We then had a very informative talk on eating disorders, once again I think we all realized that we didn’t know as much as we thought and it’s very surprising how many people are troubled by it. Mrs. C. is one of the volunteers on the end of a help line at BEAT, (Beating eating disorders). There are people out there who can help, if know someone who needs to talk, this is their contact number, Helpline; 0845 634 1414, Youthline; 0845 634 7650 , website; www.b-eat.co.uk , or you may like to be one of the helpers yourself, make a difference, these troubles are quite often closer than you think!

In April we welcomed Mr. Peter Ransome with tales of Old Shuck------The East Anglian Devil Dog. Once again an excellent talk by a well versed speaker. Now you have to think, the stories in the news at the moment, are they sightings of a panther, OR IS IT OLD SHUCK ?

March, our 41^st Birthday meeting was again a great success with us catering for 44. We went round the Mediterranean with Chris Durdin, familiar to some of our guests as he has been involved with several TV. Programmes. A very interesting and enjoyable evening and quite late for some of us, quite a few guests booking their places for next year

February our members enjoyed a little cheese & wine taste testing and family history courtesy of Mr. Tom Thrower of Ludham.

January 2009,we were down to 17 for our annual meal as a few members were ill, but the rest of us had a good time. Malcolm Weston and his team again cooked and served a wonderful meal, in our meeting place, the village hall. The “Swans” on the menu were a delight.

December we had our AGM where Our Treasurer Mrs. Ruth Galey resigned after 30 years, thanking her for her very long session, although she will still remain on the committee, we presented her with an engraved glass Vase with a picture of her spaniel on the front. Mrs. Diane Miller takes over as treasurer, the rest of the committee stays the same, other than Mrs. Tijou who also resigned.

We did however welcome two new members and a third joins in February.