INSIDE Worthing WI
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he WI offers eleven meetings a year for your membership. We do not meet usually in August and have a summer outing instead. A trip to Highclere Castle was our last summer outing and we all had a wonderful time. Last year we had planned to go to the Milestones Museum in Basingstoke but as that didn’t happen, hopefully we will be able to go next year. Our committee decided we should have an online meeting in August as we were not able to go on our outing and so we had a very interesting talk by local historian, Chris Hare, “Riots and Respectability in a seaside town”. He used old photographs and photographs of old paintings to illustrate his talk. It was so interesting to see what people looked like, what they wore and how the town looked in times gone by. After Chris’s talk we went into breakout groups to discuss whether to meet in person for our next meeting. Our competition this September was ‘The most interesting entrance’ and was won by a member who took a lovely photo of St Mary’s Farmhouse in Durrington Lane. The WI offers many different clubs that cater for all our
different interests. Many of these have been put on hold but we are hoping to resume them all soon. We have, however, started a new group “The Stiff Nipples Sea Swimmers”, so if you see a bunch of ladies braving the waves do stop and say hello! Our cookery group has been very active on WhatsApp and members post details of what they have been making and share recipes. Members also share produce from their garden if they have some spare. Likewise with our gardening group, seeds are swapped, and various plants are shared. Last year our gardening group had a plot on the seafront which produced a lovely display of flowers for the town. Our garden visits will also resume in the spring. Our craft group have been sharing ideas and are in the process of making a quilt for the federation’s craft competition. Book clubs, previously meeting on zoom every month during lockdown have now resumed in person. There are three book clubs altogether with different times to suit our members who are still working or have other commitments. We managed to meet up on the greensward in Goring for a reunion. Many of us had not seen each other in person for a long time.
Next month’s meeting will be a talk about the Crown Jewels by Alan Kingshott, who was Chief Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London. We’ll be looking forward to that.
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