Report of Meeting held on June 3rd 2010
Members were brought up to date on the following issues.
August Meeting will be on 18th August in the Boathouse.
Pledge Auction –Craster have offered afternoon tea in Marion’s garden for 12 people. When the date is confirmed any offers of help will be gratefully received.
Calendar and Diary orders were taken. Payment up front please.
Members interested in joining the 100 club were asked to please sign up and hand over £10
Members interested in joining the Darts and or Dominoes teams were asked to please sign u
1. Jackie Wylie and 10 members of Gosforth WI at our July meeting.
2. 12 members from Shilbottle will attend our September meeting.
3. Any more takers for the Red Cross training were asked to contact the secretary. Provisionally it was thought that the four hour course – Emergency Life Support was the most suitable.
4. Melrose Trip has been arranged for 22nd June.
5. We have officially adopted a beehive and our complimentary jar of honey is one of the raffle prizes tonight.
6. Family Day is to go ahead on Friday from 5-7
7. Copies of the Northumbrian are available.
David Malone was the very entertaining speaker at the June meeting. David is employed by a company called “Real Food Works” and as well as showing us how to make a delicious mint pea soup, mackerel pate and apple crumble he entertained us with anecdotes from his “day job”, which is to educate people to eat healthily and to show how this can be done cheaply and easily. The sole means of cooking in the homes of many of the families he comes into contact with is a microwave so David’s recipes are geared to its use.
It was evident that David totally believes in what he is doing. He takes great pride in what he does and is truly delighted when the penny drops with someone in his audience and they come back to tell him how their eating habits have changed e.g. by examining the salt content of processed foods.
Heather Lee won first prize for an object beginning with N with her appropriate choice of whole nutmegs. Alice Green, Rosa Marshall and Pete Green were our hostesses for the evening.
We came away from the meeting inspired to produce healthy food to consume at the barbeque/Picnic we held the following evening to Celebrate “Family Week”. This was a lovely evening. Rosemary and Michael Gibbs kindly allowed us to use the grounds of “The Bogie”. Everyone present from the youngest baby to those who have given up counting the years had a smashing time.
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