Category: Womens Institute

MAY MEETING REPORT On May 14th Kirton and Falkenham W.I. gathered at the Village Hall about an hour and a half earlier than usual in order to partake of a fish and chip lunch before our resolutions meeting. The first course was provided by Bounty Fisheries, the sweets by Mrs Judy Walker and to drink we…

APRIL MEETING REPORT In the last few weeks we have been lucky enough to acquire five new members. I hope they are all going to enjoy their time with us and spread the word through the village about the many opportunities that the W.I. presents. We were very sad to hear of the death of…

MARCH REPORT Unfortunately the speaker who was booked for our March meeting let us down without prior warning. If our programme secretary, Mrs Copping, had not had the forethought to check with her a few days previously we might have found ourselves twiddling our thumbs and humming ‘why are we waiting?’. As it was we…

FEBRUARY 2009 REPORT Do you know where the port of Ushuaia is? Well, it is the most southerly town in the world and is situated in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. This where our speaker in February, Mr Parffitt, started his voyage to Antarctica. The holiday cost in the region of £7000 and covered a distance…

JANUARY 2009 REPORT In January we welcomed Mr Woods as our speaker who showed us slides of Narrow Gauge Steam Railways in East Germany. Under communism they were run as a public service and not for profit so many more of them survive there than in the British Isles. They are mainly found in mountainous…

DECEMBER 2008 REPORT Mr Fox who talked to us in December about ‘Historic Streets of Ipswich’ is into maps. As a consequence he was particularly appreciative of the map we sent him to guide him to the Village Hall which he said made finding the place a doddle. The resonance of Ipswich street names opens…

NOVEMBER 2008 REPORT In November we hold our AGM: the time when we cast our eyes back over the past year and look forward to the next by appointing people to the various offices. The committee members, treasurer and secretary remain the same for 2009 but Judy Walker decided that the time had come for…

OCTOBER 2008 REPORTIt was our birthday meeting in October. 87 years young! It’s amazing that the W.I. has been in existence in Kirton for all that length of time. How different the village and the people that lived there must have been when it was first founded.As usual we invited members from several other W.I.s…

SEPTEMBER 2008 REPORT On the second Thursday in August, instead of a meeting, Kirton and Falkenham W.I. held a Ploughman’s Lunch with food provided by the committee and various other members. Afterwards we turned our hands to knitting and sewing Christmas decorations for the Christmas Tree Festival that is due to take place in Falkenham…

JULY 2008 REPORTAugust is the month when we do not usually hold a meeting, but instead go on an outing or have some sort of summer celebration. As this year we are not visiting anywhere we decided instead to arrange a ploughman’s lunch in the village hall on the second Thursday followed by a social…