4th March
This blog business seems very one-sided at the moment. I don't seem to be getting any replies or comments. Perhaps I am not looking in the right place. I know people are reading it but they leave no trace--wierd!
5th March
Yesterday the weather was diabolical and I was dreading the fact that seven of us had arranged to go to Denman College and walk the nature trail. We planned then to explore part of one of the Marcham Jubilee trails. However the day dawned bright and we drove over to the college.The NFWI sold off about 60 acres of land from the original bought when the WI purchased the residential college.In 1947 it cost £16000 for a Georgian mansion set in 100 acres! Some of this land was bought back by one of the previous owners but he allows the WI members to walk through the area behind the lake. This is where the nature trail has been established. It is not a great distance and there is a set of notes to guide one around.
We set off well-booted and it was exceedingly wet and muddy. The water was flowing over the top of one of the little bridges and we had to make a detour but managed to cover most of the trail.It was sad to see that one of the lovely walnut trees had been toppled in the recent gales. On the other hand lots of work has been done on the lake edges so perhaps after the clearance of a decent flight path in and out our swans will return.
After cleaning ourselves up we went inside to join about 50 Bucks WI members who were taking part in a day visit to look around the college.We had an excellent lunch and then enjoyed a guided tour of the main house and teaching block.
The college runs about 500 courses a year and entertains over 6000 students.The new programme is due out in the April issue of WI Life.There are great plans for building a new Catering School and many of the public rooms have been re-furbished this year. We all felt very proud of OUR COLLEGE.
7th March
The local WI heard a talk about diamonds tonight which was very interesting with some excellent slides on the mining of diamonds and the treatment of them to produce the rings and crown jewels which we admire so much.Did you know that you can have your loved one's ashes made into a diamond? It costs about £10000 and will be slightly yellow but it might appeal to some people I suppose.
Our WI members always help provide tea for the blood-doning service when it visits the town so that had to be arranged. Also plans made for our 85th WI birthday celebration.
8th March
I joined 3 other WI members to plan a Literary Lunch in July. In spite of the fact we met in a pub we managed to agree speaker, hall and menu and quite a lot of the detail for the day too. We left feeling very confident that we would be able to repeat the success of the last two years.
9th March
My husband found an article in Country Living in the dentist's waiting room about the crisis in British agriculture which mentioned the work being done by the WI nationally. I must try to obtain a copy. The Public Affairs Committee at NFWI is doing a splendid job on this topic and it is just the sort of publicity we need.
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I am enjoying reading the blog.As yet there is no way of registering "hits" unless readers leave a comment. It would be interesting to know how many others are enjoying the blog and if it is being read only by W.I.members!
Wow! A comment at last! I agree that would be a good idea as several people have said that they are reading the blog but of course they are all WI members who have worked out who it is writing. But the real object of the exercise was to get at the people who had dropped in to the Bucks WI site to see what sort of things the WI gets up to and perhaps find a common interest. We'll have to work on this.
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