Hordle WI

	Hordle Women's Institute
	Past Happenings
	2008
	18^th December Our WI’s turn to host the Lymington Area’s Carol Concert. Hordle Parish church was the venue and Carolyn, Brenda and Wendy from our WI, helped to make the afternoon a great success
	13^th December Our annual Christmas Fair was well attended by members and the public, who dug deep into their pockets to buy gifts on offer.
	8^th December The craft group held their annual Christmas Lunch instead of their usual get together on a Monday, with a delicious variety of food prepared by the members.
	5th December A coach load took a trip to Bath to look around the Christmas Market and the town for the day.
	4^th December Christmas meeting, with Scrabble, Beetle and a quiz after seasonal refreshments.
	10^th November A delicious Harvest Lunch, made and served by the committee, was enjoyed by thirty members and their guests
	9^th November Our president laid a poppy wreath on behalf our Institute at the Hordle Memorial in Everton Road
	4^th November Information about all that has happened during the last year – both events and refurbishments – were related, and accounts agreed during our Annual General Meeting. Some of the committee members stood down this year and new ones were appointed, then our County advisor told us about the World Wide conference for women held in Southampton during September.
	17^th October The Tuesday practise payed off as at the Lymington Group Skittles match we came in second (as opposed to last in 2007 competition)
	14^th October a practise skittles session followed by a pub lunch
	10^th October The Autumn meeting of the Lymington group was held at Milford, their speaker explained how to “Keep Young and Beautiful” in 1950’s style
	7^th October The monthly meeting was well attended and entertained by very funny anecdotes of our guest from Bournemouth.
	1^st October A different day out with a stop at Windsor to look around for a couple of hours and then into London to attend the TV show hosted by Alan Titchmarsh
	17^th September Another Pub Lunch at a local pub was enjoyed by over half of the members and guests
	2^nd September The monthly meeting with an entertaining talk about the history of knickers.
	30^th August The Village Fete – and our stall selling our homemade cakes, scones jams and chutneys boosted our funds for new some new crockery,
	27^th The Hordle Community Association quiz night again with 3 W I teams entered (Two ladies and the WISH team – W I Suffering husbands) We were not on good form and did not finish very high on the winners board.
	20^th August An American Supper had to transferred from our presidents garden into the hall because of the weather, but was very enjoyable, with a number of very delicious dishes made by the members
	13^th August We entertained another group for a Cream Tea in the hall after their tour around the area
	5^th August The cream tea in our vice presidents garden was foiled by the weather again and we had to resort to the W I hall for the cream scones, where we heard details of our entries in the New Forest Show.
		Shirley Arnold stitched this lovely sad clown, which won second place,
	29^th 30^th and 31^st July was New Forest Show time, with Hordle entering nearly 50 exhibits. Our members achieved two seconds in their classes and six double solver and ten silver markings.
		Our picture shows our president Brenda Sarjeant cutting the birthday cake made by Joan Skyrme
	1^st July meeting was held in a marquee in our hall grounds, to celebrate 90 years of the Hampshire Federation of W I’s. We had visitors from the other WI’s in the area and a letter from another WI member (who lives in Buckingham Palace) to wish us well on our celebration.
	24^th June We hosted another cream tea for a blind club from Ringwood, who had had a tour round the Forest and into Lymington, before calling in for sandwiches and scones.
	6^th June Lymington Area held an “inter institute” quiz, and our team finished right in the middle of the winners table.
	4^th June was the Annual General Meeting for the W I in Liverpool, which our president and treasurer attended
	2^nd June saw us back in our own hall and a hilarious talk by David Hawkes about his career as a diplomat
	29^th May at one of our committee member’s house, our president gave a lesson in bread making to encourage some of the newer members to have a go at baking bread rolls for entry in the New Forest Show in July
	6^th May meeting was held in the Hordle Pavilion, as our kitchen was being refitted. We talked about the resolutions to be discussed at the AGM in Liverpool, and agreed that our delegate should vote in favour of the resolutions unless she felt that the points put forward at the AGM itself were strong enough to vote against. We then had light-hearted poetry and stories read by the members.
	17^th April The first W I Quiz night had six teams enjoying a Fun Quiz, with laughter and not seriousness the order of the night.
	12^th April Our Spring Fair – A good number of visitors for our Fair enjoyed coffee and a natter and browsing around the stalls to buy our cakes, produce, gift and plant. Then try their luck on the tombola and our flower raffle.
	10^th April Another pub lunch, this time is Sway at the Hare and Hounds. Nearly 30 members enjoyed a delicious (sometimes too large) lunch.
	1^st April This months meeting saw some wonderful slides about the restoration of Christchurch Cathedral, given by one of the cathedral guides who had been the unofficial photographer whilst the project had been undertaken. He had some wonderful close ups of all the stonemasons work which has now been hoisted up onto the cathedral stonework where the naked eye can no longer see.
	18^th March We hosted a Cream Tea for a group from Ringwood who had enjoyed a pleasant tour around the New Forest before coming to our hall for refreshments
	4^th March Our third meeting this year heard in interesting talk by our local councillor Penny Lovelace speaking about her life in our village, both as a councillor and hairdresser.
	21^st February Our first pub lunch this year at The Rydal in New Milton. Over half of our members along with some husbands and guests enjoyed a splendid ‘OAP Special’
	5^th February our second meeting of the year had the return of our ‘Flower of the Month’ competition, with the proceeds going to Naomi House charity. The speaker – Mrs Giles from Christchurch gave a hilarious (if sometimes gruesome) account of her experiences as a ‘casualty’ for the rescue services training and practice exercises.
	8^th January our January meeting was a week late due to New Years Day, but an informal meeting was held with the committee members mingling to try and ask what the member wanted from their WI and what kind of events they wanted us to organise.

Hordle Women's Institute

Past Happenings