HARDINGTON AND PENDOMER WI
MINUTES OF THE MONTHLY MEETING HELD ON
10TH SEPTEMBER 2008 AT 7.45PM IN THE VILLAGE HALL
Present: 25 members and 18 guests.
This was our Open Evening and President, Fiona Chadwick, welcomed members and friends who had come to be entertained by our guest, Bonny Sartin of the Yetties.
Fiona conducted a short business meeting before introducing our guest.
Apologies for Absence: Jenny Dodd, Elaine Gilmore, Judy Tucker, Gladys Rawlins, Anne Lunt, Elizabeth Sawtell, Mary Spilsbury, Sue DeBoehmler, Isabel Platten, June Chivers and Helen Parrott.
Birthday Posies: Sue Phillips, Kate Curtis and Sally Norris
Minutes of the last meeting: On notice board for members to read
Flower Show: The teas at the flower show had made a profit of £94.00 – Fiona thanked all those who had helped on the day and those who had baked cakes. Winners of the WI Cookery Cup were Vivien Cherry and Rachel Moulden.
Event Boards:
- SCFWI Annual Meeting – Saturday 25th October at Wellsprings Leisure Centre, Taunton
- Women against Violence – petition – NFWI is sending petition to the government.
- Proposed Group shopping trip – please sign if you are interested and also indicate your choice of venue.
New Committee members: Fiona asked if anyone interested in joining the committee to please let her know as we have two members resigning this year and we need to replace one or both of them.
Vision Aid Glasses collection: SCFWI are collecting for Vision Aid – we will have a collection box at next month’s meeting so please bring along your old spectacles.
Any other Business:
- Yeovil Wraxall WI is running a bus to the Wells Cathedral Carol Service from Holy Trinity Church leaving at 9.30am at a cost of £5. If anyone would like to join them please let Muriel Amatt know.
- Birthday Posies – Audrey Marsh who has done our birthday posies for many years, wishes to have a break. Fiona thanked her very much for all her lovely posies over the years and asked if anyone would like to take this on and help Joan Whiteman do the posies in the future.
Fiona then introduced our speaker, Bonny Sartin of The Yetties folk group. Bonny’s theme for the evening was Dorset, My Dorset, and he spoke of his life growing up in Thorncombe, illustrating it with his amusing poems and songs of country life in Dorset. We were encouraged to join in the chorus of his many amusing songs – we all have memories of childhood coach trips to the seaside, but not all going past the chalk giant, who was a tailor with scissors in his lap! Bonny’s songs and poems of farming life proved thought provoking as well as funny and relevant to us, a farming village. Rosemary Richards thanked Bonny for an entertaining evening and as a Dorset girl herself, she could relate to many of the events told in his poems and songs.
Fiona then invited everyone to enjoy refreshments of Dorset apple cake, cider and apple juice or tea and coffee.
Next Meeting: 8th October – RNAS Yeovilton (a change in the programme).
The meeting closed at 10.00pm.