Poringland WI Newsletter January 2025
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Walk: Tuesday 28 January, meet 11am at Spurgeon’s farm shop High Green Brooke. Wrap up warm and be prepared to be mud
splattered. Lunch at the café at 1pm. Let me know if wish to join us.
Craft
Afternoon Monday 13 January @ 2.30pm (every
Second Monday) at Joan’s, 74 Poringland road Stoke HX. If you would like to come along to craft and
chat, please contact Joan 493036.
Gym
Sessions. At the ‘Gym Group’ (next to Asda on Hall road). Currently we have an hour long session each
Wednesday morning from about 9am.
If
you’re new and fancy any of these, talk to Lesley or the named member and we
will arrange for someone to accompany you or give you a lift.
Happy Birthdays for January to
Kirsty Long and Mary Stancer
Poringland Community Cinema at Poringland
Community Centre
THELMA
(12A) FRIDAY 10th JANUARY
COMEDY/DRAMA
Stars, June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard
Roundtree
The Critic FRIDAY 14th FEBRUARY
Cert
15/Drama/Crime/Mystery
Stars Ian McKellen, Mark Strong Gemma
Arterton, Lesley Manville
Tickets £5 on the door (includes tea or
coffee)
Doors open at 6.45pm, Film starts 7.30pm
Federation
Events
LADIES THAT LUNCH in Our
House, 45 All Saints Green. on first Friday, enjoy a 2course
lunch for £13.50. Single applicants only
as spaces are limited. Jan 3rd
menu is Cottage Pie followed by Key Lime Pie & Cream.
ZOOM PANTO –SLEEping Beauty Wednesday 15 January 7.30pm
Beginners patchwork course; Evelyn
Suffield (ES) House Saturday 8 & 22 February and Saturday 8 & 22 March
10 – 3.00pm with coffee and welcome at 9.30.
£100 for the whole course. Tutor
Betty Stacey.
Tapas and Fizz
Evening Friday 21 February Our
(ES) house on All Saints Green. 6 – 9pm. A variety of tapas including
vegetarian option, and a glass of Cava or soft drink. £16.
Guided tour of
Kew Gardens and Orchid Festival By
coach Wednesday 25th Feb £60.
International Women’s day coffee,
chat and craft on 6 March.
You are also asked to make an
orange flower for a display at FAM.
Federation Annual Meeting
Thursday 13 March,
Theatre Royal 10.45am – 3.45pm. Delegate ticket free, visitors £13.
Speaker will be Arit
Anderson garden designer, writer and presenter on BBCs Gardeners’ World.
Lunch or lunch boxes
and refreshments available. Stalls and
exhibitions to explore.
Bridge Day
Wednesday 19 March 10am
for a 10.30 start – 3.30pm.
£22 includes lunch of Jacket
potato with choice of fillings followed by Ginger sponge or fruit salad
AND look what you will be
missing if you don’t rejoin in April!
QuIz with tea, scones and cake
1.30pm Friday 11 April NCC Manor Park Horsford NR10 3AQ. Teams of up to 6 - members only £10pp.
Gliding Days. Tibenham Airfield Friday 16 May and 29 August with fall back dates of 23 May
or 12 September as weather dependent. Winch
launch £70 or Aero tow £144.
And there’s more over page
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Summer Garden
Party at Wiveton Hall NR25 7TE. Tuesday
17 June 2-6pm £40. Includes afternoon tea and tour of
the gardens with Desmond, famed for the programme ‘Normal for Norfolk’ that
featured the hall. Glass of wine £3
extra.
SEE BOARD FOR DETAILS of all
Events. Application forms available from
Lesley or in your magazine.
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MINUTES
OF MEETING OF PORINGLAND WI
held
on Thursday 12 December 2024
The
meeting opened with a rendition, by all of, ‘We wish you a merry Christmas’
Zelia
Dickinson, President, then welcomed everyone including visitor Amanda to the meeting
Apologies for absence were received from Gillian Braiden,
Maureen Scott, Pam Cooper, Marietta Menzies, Mary, Yvonne,
News of Members, Mary Stancer is now receiving palliative
car. Gillian has a bad cold.
Birthday posies were presented to Ann Webster and Gail
Mays, and taken on behalf of Marietta Menzies
Minutes of Oct meeting having been printed in last month’s
Newsletter were taken as read and signed.
There were no Matters Arising.
Nfk Mag. As there was a shortage this month, most members
had received theirs by email. Federation What’s on are listed in Newsletter and
Secretary has the forms.
January Meeting
Unfortunately, due to illness there is a change of Speaker, we shall now hear
Stephen Amer on Sea Shanties. Judith
Finn volunteered to thank him.
Competition
your favourite LP or CD cover and Tea hostesses are Jeanette & Pat
AOB
Lesley reminded members that we still need a new Secretary
and outlined the main duties. Members
were informed of the Office Christmas closure dates.
Juyna
Lewis then gave her talk ‘Merry Christmas to All’ telling us of Christmas
traditions from around the world and illustrated with pictures of her many
nativity scenes. She was thanked by Hilary Lark after which members enjoyed the
homemade refreshments provided by the retiring Officers, Hilary, Joan and
Lesley. Members purchased their £1
parcels from the large selection.
The competition for best
homemade Christmas card was won by Hilary and the meeting closed at 4.10pm.
Resolution Shortlist for 2025:
to be debated/voted for in January.
1.
Let’s talk about Incontinence.
It
is estimated 20 million people in the UK suffer with either bladder or bowel
problems. Calling on those in charge of
health care to examine those areas of health and well being affected by
incontinence issues and to drive improved services. We are also asked to raise public awareness,
remove stigma to help reduce the significant impact on people’s lives,
2.
Bystanders can be life savers.
over
30,000 out of hospital cardiac arrests each year in UK. Women have a lower chance of survival than
men. Early action doubles the chances of
survival. We are asked to work to
increase public confidence and training in the delivery of CPR and improve
access to defibrillators in our communities to give every person the best
chance of surviving a cardiac arrest.
3.
Join the repair revolution
Promoting
clothing reuse and repair. What we used
to call make do and mend! The huge
excess in clothing production has a devastating consequence for the
environment. The Government is called
upon to strengthen the law and investment to support a circular economy of
clothing and fabrics in the UK, where repair and reuse is achievable,
accessible and affordable to all.
4. Eliminate landfill of
medication packaging.
Not
routinely recyclable through local authority collections. Raise awareness and encourage additional
collection points where empty packaging can be easily returned or recycling to
reduce environmental impact. Call upon
manufacturing companies to acknowledge their moral responsibility to reduce
their environmental impact by exploring simpler packaging alternatives that are
easier to recycle or have less impact on the environment.
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As usual, I donated to the Nook instead of buying a
lot of Christmas cards. But I hope
Christmas lived up to expectations and I wish you all a Happy New Year.
‘What the New Year brings to you will
depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year’.
Quote
from Vern Mclellan, author of ‘Wise words and quotes’.
