On Saturday 2 March Staunton on Arrow WI hosted the village coffee spot. A magnificent joint effort on cake making, hostessing, washing up and generally making the Coffee Spot a really enjoyable community event. Made £159.60 to keep the hall running, and £67 on the draw for WI funds. Debbie Stokes instructed us in the art of folding pages of old books to create a cute hedgehog for keeping notes and cards in. Some of the books were snaffled by avid readers before we started and Becky arrived just in time to judge best shape, nose and face. We finished the evening with a jolly bring and share supper.
Debbie Stokes handed over to Becky and her husband Mark who gave us a very interesting demonstration on how to make Sushi. They have been fans of these Japanese dishes for many years and regularly have family meals. It was lovely to watch Becky construct the rolls of vinegared rice with a range of ingredients including peppers, cucumber, avocado and smoked salmon all wrapped in nori seaweed. We were then invited to try the samples and some brave souls even tried the wasabi! The pickled ginger was a popular garnish for many of us. Mark then did a brilliant quiz on all the information we had learned throughout the demonstration
and we finished the evening with our bring and share supper, although we were all quite full by then! We had a short introduction from Wendy Hughes about how she got started in felting, her fabulous creations were all around on display for us to admire, before we all got stuck into felting our robins. Wendy had given us all a super kit that had everything we needed to get started. We decided an hours concentration was enough for one evening and so we finished at 9pm for our sociable bring and share supper.
Sarah Westaby introduced her friend Sarah Williams, a local yoga teacher who led us all in a session of chair yoga. We concentrated on breathing, posture, balance and stretching in various yoga poses, all from the comfort of our chairs. We certainly all felt the benefits, so much so that we hope to repeat the sessions somehow in the future, possibly as a community activity.
We then finished the evening with our usual sociable bring and share supper. The WI arranged and hosted the village Harvest supper in the hall. Nearly 50 members and villagers were present to enjoy cold meats, jacket potatoes and salads and a selection of scrumptious puddings. There was a competition to identify the WI babies, plus a game of stand up bingo. The evening was a great success and a donation will be made to the Kington Food Bank.
At our October meeting we all had a good time playing indoor Kurling; we were able to borrow the equipment from Powys Radnor Federation.
Sheila gave a group of members tuition in how to knit the teddies which are to go to the hospital and the hospice.
Debbie welcomed our speaker for the evening, local author Anne O’Brien, who gave a very interesting talk on females from medieval history, in particular scandalous women of the Welsh Marches! We were enthralled and thoroughly enjoyed the evening, which was followed by our bring and share supper.
Unfortunately our programmed speaker had to cancel their visit. Fortunately we then had a very creative time with our own Debbie Weaver who stepped in to demonstrate decoupage. During the evening, we all completed a beautiful coaster each using a paper napkin design and a pre-cut wooden base. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves and we ended with our sociable bring and share supper with plenty of tea and lots of chat.
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