Abingdon Fitzharrys WI hit a new milestone this week. On Tuesday 9th March at 7pm twenty-two members joined together for our first meeting on Zoom. There was lots of chat, catching up on news and comparison of lockdown hairstyles! Moira, the President, also filled us in on future plans. In Read more
Dear All I hope you are all keeping well and looking forward to the spring; 2020 was a very challenging time for us all. On the bright side, with the end of lockdown in sight and the government’s plans to slowly start opening things up, we can look at planning Read more
Dear all I hope you and your families are all keeping well and that you managed to enjoy both your Christmas and New Year celebrations, albeit in very different way this year. Sadly, we have entered into the New Year with yet another lockdown! I am sure many of us Read more
Dear All My best wishes to you all for the coming year. I trust it will be better than the last one! Despite everything, I hope you all managed to have a pleasant Christmas. Sadly with the new restrictions it be will sometime before we can start thinking about restarting Read more
Dear All, Looking towards Christmas, on Tuesday 8 December we have arranged to hold our Christmas giving for the Abingdon Food Bank and local homeless charities, in the Northcourt Centre car park between 11 am and 12.30 pm (we have been given permission by the Centre management). The Food Bank Read more
Good morning ladies, I hope you are all keeping well and safe as we go into this second lockdown. All the committee’s plans for us to meet up in the period prior to Christmas have had to be put on hold. However, the committee did manage to get together to Read more
The Committee and members of Abingdon Fitzharrys WI agreed during 2020 that one important way to deal with the difficulties of meeting during the present Covid 19 restrictions was to change the time of the monthly meeting from the evening to the afternoon. Accordingly, the Committee emailed Catherine Blaxhall, Chair of Read more
Dear All It was good to catch up with all of you on Tuesday 8 September in the Abbey grounds; Trine took some pictures, and she is hoping they will be in next month’s News & Views. There was a very positive feeling amongst those present regarding our plans to Read more
Good evening Ladies I was delighted some of us were able to meet up on Tuesday, it being such a hot day. I understand why some members weren’t able to join us. Although we welcome the cooler weather perhaps the thunderstorm on Wednesday was not what we ordered. At our Read more
On a very warm afternoon on Tuesday 11 August, Abingdon Fitzharrys members were delighted to meet up again for the first time since March. They found a shady spot in the Abbey Gardens to enjoy a socially distanced picnic together. All are looking forward to be able to resume monthly Read more