We had 2 guest speakers to our July meeting! Firstly Jill Tuck visited us from Effingham WI, she was our representative for the WI AGM held in Brighton earlier in the year and gave us an account of what took place. Secondly Bertie Newton spoke about the Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance.
Following the announcement our fabulous win of ‘Best Dressed Stall’ at Bookham Village Day, our members were very excitable at our June meeting on Monday night, so what better way to entertain a large hall of women than to talk about our wardrobes and become the ‘Best Dressed Belles’!! »View More
Bookham Village Day 2016 photo slideshow »View the slideshow
The Silent Pool Gin Distillery in Shere was the venue for the Belles outing.
Our talk ended with the Belles favourite part – TASTING and there was plenty of that!! »View more
Belles ventured out from their usual meeting venue this month visiting The Vineries for hanging baskets and planting pots demonstrations. »View the slideshow
What a fabulous day for a walk, glorious sunshine, lovely scenery and the woods filled with bluebells. Regular walkers enjoyed a lovely stroll at Polesden Lacey today joined by a new Belle and a birthday dog!! The bluebells were just beautiful and the morning was finished off with a nice coffee and cake plus a lovely birthday sausage treat for Milo!! Looking forward to seeing more Belles joining us for our next walk – such fun!
April’s Meeting was a very busy one as we needed to do our Resolutions this month instead of May. Ann Lilleywhite, our WI advisor, was on hand to assist as this is the Belles first year of voting. There are two resolutions this year:
Avoid Food waste, address Food poverty
Appropriate care for people with Dementia in Hospitals.
We voted for each one and the votes were counted and recorded by The Secretary.
We were then treated to an exceptional talk from Monica Weller a local author who co-wrote a book about Ruth Ellis the last woman to be hanged in Britain – what a fascinating story, we were all gripped with tales of murder, lies, guns & espionage and she revealed some amazing truths about what really happened! Following her talk she was surrounded by Belles who wanted to buy her book. Refreshments were served and a great evening was had by all.
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Belles were invited to Eastwick WI’s fundraising evening on Saturday 16th April and what a fun night it was. Dinner was served by local caterer Elizabeth and the drink was flowing!
A Fete worse than Death was the title of the murder mystery and actors (all the way from Somerset) set the scene!! They played various characters from the village and then we had two murders – it was down to each table to work out ‘whodunit’!!!! It was such fun and unfortunately we got it wrong!!
Thank you to Eastwick for inviting us it was a blast!
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