The Craft Group will meet for the first time in 2020 on Friday 31 January at 2 pm at Hilary’s house. The last meeting of the Craft Group in 2019 was on Friday 22 November, when the group made Christmas boxes and Christmas tree themed cards. In March members Read more
January 2020 is kicking off with a visit to see the live screening of the Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty, on Thursday 16 January. Summer 2019 included trips to live screenings of the Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Taming of the Shrew at the Amey Read more
It doesn’t seem possible that we are in December and Christmas is just round the corner. We are now three quarters of the way through our WI year and Viv has already applied for an adviser to attend our AGM in March. How time flies when you are enjoying yourself Read more
The meeting was spent creatively on art and craft activities with a Christmas theme. It was a delightfully happy, industrious evening. For the business part of the the meeting, Moira welcomed members and a number of guests. A rendition of Happy Birthday Viv followed and it appeared there were several Read more
Dear Friends As a result of the Northcourt Open Day we are delighted to welcome several new members. It is time to have a New Members Evening get together, so this is now in the pipeline. At the November meeting, following a short business meeting, there will be four different Read more
Meeting of Abingdon Fitzharrys WI 8 October 2019 Moira welcomed everyone and thanked Marian for the flowers, which were to be given to Jill H. She said how delighted she was that our team, which took part in the Centenary Art & Craft Competition, was placed third and their display was Read more
Abingdon Fitzharrys member Viv and her golden Labrador Jemma appeared recently in the magazine WI Life in a feature on WI members and their dogs. As well as being a loved family dog, Jemma plays a special role as a canine blood donor for the Pet Blood Bank. With Viv’s support, Read more
Ladies I hope some of you were able to go along to the craft exhibition at Didcot. It was well worth a visit. I expect by now you will have heard the news that our entry came third out of 23. Congratulations! Well done Fitzharrys. Our thanks to everyone in Read more
Abingdon Fitzharrys’ Secretary Viv writes about the Oxfordshire Federation’s Centenary Exhibition on 21 September: If you were at Didcot yesterday you will know how well Abingdon Fitzharrys did in the competition. I thought you would all like to see the impressive tableau they assembled. They achieved very high marks –over Read more
Abingdon Fitzharrys WI 10 September 2019 After a short business meeting (see below) we enjoyed a bring and share supper and the raffle was drawn. Now it was time for members to sit around tables in groups of 8 and begin working on a questionnaire called “Getting to know you”, created and introduced Read more