This is the season of mellow fruitfulness and getting to grips with sorting out all the stuff hanging around from earlier in the year!  In the good old days we used to save up loads of things that we didn’t really need anymore and they went on a massive great bonfire.  This being the bonfire […]

I’ve been following a lifestyle tv programme with a difference.  It’s not all about couples apparently as would be house buyers shown pickily viewing and rejecting umpteen very good choices, or a stream of disgusting hovels sold at auction before and after the transformation work.  No, this one is much more to my taste.  It […]

Gosh it is hot at the moment – I’m trying desperately not to moan about it because we had a dreadfully snowy and icy winter through until late spring.  The heat however does put folk off doing crafts – you can’t get on with the sweat pouring all over the craft project!  This is frustrating […]

We have recently celebrated the centenary of one half of our local w.i.,  The original one started in the next village along after the local lady of the manor rallied her ladies who had helped her first world war efforts for 5 years.  They heard about this new thing for women coming from Canada, spreading […]

There have been many celebrations throughout the land of the 100 years of the WI – each federation set up independently so although the idea first came to Wales from Canada in 2015, the general thrust took off from mid 2017 ad onwards.  My particular group only forming in the late 1960s is way off, […]

For years I have kept my knitting wools and needles in an old laundry stand up in the back bedroom.  They’ve been sadly neglected, especially in the summer.  I don’t know why – I recall the joyous satisfaction of pressing and trying on no end of jumpers that I’d knitted from patters in magazines.  I […]

I was attending a committee meeting the other evening – connected with a very well known and respected organisation for women.  Say no more.  There we were supposed to be planning the yearly campaign for craft evening and lunch dates.  What was actually happening was much giggling, chattering and congratulations being plied to one member […]

I belong to a couple of groups in a nearby village.  One is designed to be only women and can remain so under current law because of the very nature of it’s activity and purpose – a century ago.  The other group is just for anyone over a certain age and was primarily for social […]

I belong to a local federation of the wi.  My daughter belongs also and we love meeting up with older ladies – some of them just look ancient and in fact are not much older in years than me.  I just look and behave much younger!  I do however share the same old fashioned ideas […]

I had the good fortune to spend Christmas with a family who have lived in their cottage for over 40 years, they bought the first half before they married, tiny little place in which they managed to have both sons! Then the adjoining cottage was acquired and the mammoth job of joining them commenced.  I’ve […]