Diary Dates
Fun festivities
It’s now a tradition for Lynda to give us one of her challenging Christmas Quizzes during the December monthly meeting. A great time was had by all, plus we’ve learned a new fact or two.
Tis the Season to be Jolly
For our November monthly meeting, Kirsten led another successful Christmas crafts session with the creation of these wonderful stars!
Thrills and spills
Amazing Lucy Allen, stunt woman, gave a fascinating talk on her 30+ years in the business, for our October meeting. She’s appeared in everything from Eastenders to the Mission Impossible and Bond movies!
Bucket Drumming
Corbett WI’s September meeting brought us Avril, who led a session on Bucket Drumming. What an impressive display from our members!
A tour of Clerkenwell
Last weekend, a group of our members went on a walk around the Clerkenwell area, led by our favourite tour guide Chris. Here are some of the fantastic pictures that were taken.
Tidylicious
Tower Bridge
Last month Cobett WI took a trip to that iconic structure Tower Bridge. Here are some of the pictures taken by our members, plus a hair-raising video taken by Cristina of her walk over the glass walkway, yikes!
Sissinghurst Gardens
Some of our members made the trip to Sissinghurst Gardens recently and it looks like a great day was had by all!
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Pimms and plants
June brought another successful fund raising afternoon from the Gardening Group, thanks to Cristina, Lotte, Kay and Gill.
Once again Cristina offered her amazing garden as the venue for this year’s plant sale. There was a fantastic selection of cakes from Femi, while the limoncello was provided by Jackie H, there were also copious amounts of Pimms and Cava. A special mention goes to Maureen, the creator of that gorgeous strawberry cake, who can be found on Instragram under j20_Cakes.
The proceeds are being tallied and will be announced at our June meeting.
Annual Meeting update
We’re extremely pleased to announce that Christine will continue as Corbett WI’s President for another year, whoop, whoop!
Congratulations to Eileen, Roisin, Pam and Abi who are joining the Committee and farewell to Debbie, Phoenix and Yvonne who have chosen to step down.
Mudlarking memories
Christine from the Thames Explorer Trust gave a talk on the history of the Thames foreshore for our April meeting. Our members are looking forward to the upcoming mudlarking trip very much.
Beautiful Borde HIll
Some of our members made a trip to Borde Hill gardens recently, here are a few of the wonderful pictures they took.
Pearly King of Peckham
Our March meeting brought Corbett WI George, the Pearly King of Peckham, who gave a entertaining talk about all things Cockney.
Scottish dancing
Angela and Liz from the Orpington and District Caledonian Society came along to our February meeting to teach us Scottish dancing and what a fun night it was! You can see some of our efforts below, with more pictures to follow.
New beginnings
We kicked off our first meeting of 2023 with a CD Calendars session led by the ever creative Kerstin.
Wakehurst Glow Wild
Our members took a trip to Wakehurst for the Glow Wild winter lantern trail. What amazing photographers we have a Corbett WI!
