Join us on Wednesday 16 September for a relaxed craft session run by one of our committee members.

We had a lovely sociable evening on Wednesday 19 August with our annual quiz and games night. Lots of fun and chatter were enjoyed while we played a round of dingbats and a film quiz. We also held a blind tasting with ready salted crisps, and the most expensive brand was certainly not the overall winner with everyone!

On Wednesday 15 July we were treated to a wonderful talk and baking demonstration from Beccy Hunt. Beccy spoke passionately about her baking endeavours and the social side of working in a kitchen whilst demonstrating how to make light and fluffy scones with lots of tips along the way. We very much enjoyed the tasting with jam and clotted cream.

On Wednesday 17 June, we were treated to a fun trip down memory lane from our speaker, Jeff Evans, with his talk entitled “The Golden Age of Children’s TV”.  Jeff was a great speaker and with lots of audience interaction.

We held a relaxed craft session on Wednesday 20 May making hat-shaped brooches and hair bobbles out of fabric and bottle tops. We also voted on the resolutions to be debated at the NFWI Annual Meeting.

Simon Wenham joined us on Wednesday 15 April with a fabulous and well researched talk entitled Living the Lexicon, describing the trials and tribulations behind one of the greatest works of literature in the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary.

On Wednesday 18 March we were joined by Laurence Nagy for a light exercise session focussing on chair yoga. Laurence talked us through some basic moves and stretches and helped us focus on our breathing. It was a gentle session pitched just right for our beginner’s group by a great coach.

We will held our Annual Meeting with a review of the year and the election of the new (!) committee. If you are interesting in helping out on the committee in a role of your choice, we would love to have you.

We were very pleased to welcome back Liz Woolley to speak to us about Leisure and Entertainment in Victorian and Edwardian Oxford. Liz is very well versed and, as always, she presented a well researched, informative talk illustrated with slides to bring it to life. We all recognised some of the buildings and learnt something new about our nearest city.

Happy New Year to all our members and followers.

We celebrated the New Year with a belated Christmas meal at The Coseners House in Abingdon on 21 January. We were greeted with mulled wine and enjoyed a lovely three course with a mince pie and coffee to finish. Members looked resplendent in their sparkly attire and we even had crackers and party poppers to add to the atmosphere.

We wish all our members a very happy and healthy Christmas and look forward to seeing you in the New Year.

On Wednesday 10 December, we enjoyed a celebratory Christmas craft workshop making parper baubles at Hadland Road Community Centre. Members celebrated the season with some bubbles and mince pies, looking resplendent in their festive Christmas jumpers!