President Christine Farquhar welcomed 47 members and one guest to the November meeting. The minutes of the last meeting were approved and signed. Christine thanked coffee hostesses Annelies, Dee and Julie B. Dee was also thanked for the lovely flower arrangement.

On Remembrance Sunday Sarah Hatchard laid a wreath on behalf of Castle Green WI during the service at Saltwood War Memorial.

Christine drew our attention to the correspondence from EKFWI and NFWI which was available on the table. The EKFWI Annual Meeting will be held on 2 April 2026, and members were asked to consider being stewards on the day. (You get a free ticket!)

The resolutions for next year’s NFWI Annual Meeting are in the November edition of WI Life, and we will discuss and vote on them at the January meeting.

After coffee and delicious cake, we settled down to get crafting. The crafts on offer were Bookmarks with Biddy and Molly, Tea light jar decoration with Julie A, Form-A-Line cards with Ros, Snowmen with Jo, paper Angels with Jackie V and Father Christmas with Kay.

There was the sound of laughter and chat interspersed with silences when we were all busy concentrating. At the end of the session these photographs show the results of all our sefforts.

Margaret Alcock thanked the leaders for sharing their expertise with us.

For details of the next meeting click here.