2014 dates

June
2 June            Planting for Wildlife & Cooking without Meat
7 June            National WI AGM
10 June          WI Meeting, Never Give Up! How to write a best seller
14 June          Farmers Market Refreshments

July
8 July.            WI Meeting, Pearls of Wisdom with pearl enthusiast Frances Benton
12 July            Farmers Market Refreshments
16 July            Get the WI Wow Factor
22 July            Evening walk

August
9 August         Farmers Market Refreshments
13 August       Kensington Palace visit
20 August       Summer Lunch

September
8 September   Storysack evening
9 September   WI Meeting, Amazon Adventure with Dr Jill Eyers
13 September  Farmers Market Refreshments
23 September. Northampton Shoe Museum visit

October
1 October        Craft + Coffee group
7 October        Buddhist Temple visit
9 October        The Importance of Being Earnest
11 October      Farmers Market Refreshments
14 October      WI Meeting, Alexander Technique with Janey Goodearl

2013 dates

June
8 June           Farmers Market, Coffee Shop and Craft
11 June         WI Meeting - Fabric, Fashion and Furniture, 7.45pm
15 June         Village Day
19 June         10am Craft & Coffee
25 June         Coronation Tea

July
9 July            WI Meeting - History of Pinewood Studios
13 July           Farmers Market, Coffee Shop and Craft
24 July           Eton College visit
31 July           10.30am Reservoir walk and lunch

August
10 August      Farmers Market, Coffee Shop and Craft
13 August      President's Summer Lunch
21 August      Black Country Museum visit

September
10 Sept          WI Meeting - Colour in the Garden
14 Sept          Farmers Market, Coffee Shop and Craft
25 Sept          Great Food Debate, High Wycombe
27 Sept          Supper Theatre evening, Aylesbury

October
7 Oct             Art Day, Cheddington
8 Oct             WI Meeting - Liberty, Story of a Shop
12 Oct           Farmers Market, Coffee Shop and Craft
17 Oct           10am Tour of Moor Park Mansion

The Gruffalo

Our latest storysack based on the very popular children's book "The Gruffalo" is finally complete and is sure to be a great hit with the children at St George's School.

Some of the characters were very time-consuming to make them look like the pictures in the book, but I think it was time well spent!

We will be presenting the storysack with all its characters and accessories, which include a little handmade forest and toadstools as well as some word games, to the children towards the end of June.

The next book we are going to tackle is George and the Dragon and our first meeting to plan this is at 8pm on Monday 16th July.

Jubilee Flowers for the Village

On a beautiful sunny May morning some members of our WI took our trowels, gardening gloves and lots of plants down to the village green to plant up the raised flower bed in the jubilee colours of red, white and blue. Alongside the traditional bedding plants of geranium, verbena and lobelia, we have also planted tobacco plants, campanula, cosmos and feverfew to encouange and help bees.

We are looking forward to watching the plants as they settle in, spread and start to flower, hopefully in time for Little Chalfont Village Day on Saturday 16th June.

DIARY DATES 2012

SEPTEMBER
Monday 3 Sept - WI Textile Treasures Exhibition
Wednesday 6 Sept - Talk "A Force to be Reckoned With" Chorleywood
Saturday 8 Sept - Farmers Market Coffee Shop & Craft Fair
Tuesday 11 Sept - WI Meeting, Willow Basket weaving
Wednesday 12 Sept - Craft + Coffee 10-12noon
Monday 17 Sept - Story Sack meeting 8pm
Tuesday 18 Sept - Caring Matters workshop
Thursday 20 Sept - Beetle Drive 7.30pm

OCTOBER
Wed 3 Oct - Craft + Coffee 10-12 noon
Saturday 6 Oct - Lumina, Medieval music 2-4.30pm
Monday 8 Oct - Writers' Workshop 10am
Tuesday 9 Oct - WI Meeting Ikebana, Japanese Flower Arranging
Wednesday 10 Oct - County Autumn Event with Lynda Bellingham
Friday 12 Oct - Knitting & Stitching Show
Saturday 13 Oct - Farmers Market Coffee Shop & Craft Fair
Wednesday 24 Oct - Family History Day
Monday 29 Oct - Winter Warmers Cookery Day
Tues 30 Oct - Scrabble Evening

NOVEMBER
Friday 2 Nov - Multi Craft Dabble Day
Sat 10 Nov - Farmers Market Coffee Shop & Craft Fair
Tues 13 Nov - WI Annual Meeting
Thurs 29 Nov - Resolutions Selection Day

DECEMBER
Fri 7 Dec - Christmas Concert 7.30pm Aylesbury
Sat 8 Dec - Farmers Market Coffee Shop & Christmas Fair
Tues 11 Dec - WI Meeting, Christmas Festivities
Thurs 13 Dec - WI Christmas Lunch

OUR LATEST STORYSACK
Here at last are some photos of our most recent storysack WILBIE - FOOTIE MAD!

It is all about Wilbie - a duck who wants to be in the football team with all his friends. As you can see he had lots of friends - all beautifully knitted, and a green felt football pitch! We hope the children at St George's School enjoy reading this book and playing with all the characters as much as we enjoy making them.

We are now working on "The Gruffalo" - watch this space!

Three Little Pigs

Another Storysack has been safely delivered to St George's School, and the children were delighted with it all, but particularly with the more "lifelike" mother pig and her piglets!

Now we are preparing another one all about a little boy duck who wants to play football!