As well as the monthly meetings, WeyBay members are encouraged to join together with others who have similar interests. We try to give you updates of these groups on the Things to Do pages and their exploits are advertised at the meetings.
There is a new group starting up in February. A cycling group. Details have been sent out my email or find our the contact details at the monthly meeting. If you would like to set up a group, speak to the President. You will find an enthusiastic response.
Gillian Stockley has sent this report from the Walking Group. I have taken over the Walking Group that Maureen Cribb originally set up. We currently have 12 members and walk on alternating Mondays and Tuesdays on a fortnightly basis. Using this monthly pattern means most of the group can make at least 1 walk a month although most make each walk.
We have a 3-monthly forward programme and members swap if they are unable to make their allocated date. Each walk normally includes a refreshments stop, this can be either bringing your own drink and a snack if not on a route that includes anywhere to stop or a potential ‘pit stop’ at a pub or café. Each walk is around 4 – 6 miles and we take a good couple of hours or longer with lots of chatter and laughter while we walk.
Places we have so far been include the coastal path starting at Burton Bradstock National Trust car park heading to West Bay returning to the Hive Café for refreshments. Good we have sufficient NT members so parking is free!! The start of this year we did a local walk starting at the Nothe to Oasis Café and back along the Beach Road and Esplanade. All walks have spectacular views what else do you expect from such a beautiful county!
Photo shows our walk along the Coastal Path from Burton Bradstock in October.
RESOLUTIONS
Six new resolutions for WI members to vote on in January/February this year were introduced in the November/December 2018 issue of WI Life, along with a brief summary and details of how to access more information about them. (If you no longer have your copy, then log into My WI or check out thewi.org.uk at https://www.thewi.org.uk/campaigns/resolutions-and-mandates) In addition, Dorset Federation held meetings around the county in November to explore the issues and help members to decide which resolution they would like to go forward to the vote at the Annual Meeting in June 2019. Here is a summary of some key points raised at one of the local meetings, to help inform your own vote.
The resolutions for members to vote on this year are as follows: Improving Plant Biosecurity in the UK, Trees – Improving the Natural Landscape, Pelvic Floor Education, Suffering in Silence - why we need to end the taboo around menstrual health, A Call against the Decline in Local Bus Service, Don’t Fear the Smear.
The subjects for 2019 are diverse and all carry such an important message that members may find it difficult to make a choice. The resolution that wins the national vote overall becomes the WI National campaign and gains considerable influence. Make sure that you use your vote for your chosen resolution. Voting slips will be given out at the next meeting.
 A HAPPY NEW AND BUSY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE Membership 2019 - New members are welcome to join WeyBay WI – please email your details to weybay-wi@hotmail.co.uk for an application form. Closing date for applications is Friday 15th February 2019 Christmas is a memory and members will be thinking of the 2019 and what it will hold. Weymouth has been bathed in sunshine since the Christmas holiday. Remarkably little wind and high temperatures has made us all appreciate the town that we live in. The amazing Christmas morning swim, a beach filled with dog walkers and families and the New Year celebrations around the town have set us up for a good year ahead. Keep up to date with meetings on the What’s On page. Your committee will remind members by email of the planned events. Lots to look forward to – even if we can’t guarantee that the weather will remain so balmy. As in previous years, WeyBay members enjoyed their traditional Christmas Party at the New Vic Bars. The evening started with cocktails and was followed by a traditional Christmas menu and dancing to Mr Tambourine Man. His lively style got everyone up onto the dance floor with their musical instruments and singing along to the songs everyone knows. A great evening and an excellent start to Christmas and thanks should be extended to the committee for organising it. MY SCENTED HOME November meeting saw the start of Christmas with Catherine Nix  from My Scented Home showing members how to make a classic door wreath. She also brought along lots of lovely smelling items to buy. It was a very well received evening and few of the ladies followed it up with a workshop in her cottage in Corfe Castle. On Friday 23 November a full coach took a trip to Bath to take advantage of Black Friday shopping and the Christmas Markets. This popular trip has now become an annual event with thanks to Marisa for organising. DORSET FEDERATION ANNUAL MEETING This year’s Dorset WI’s Annual Meeting at The Lighthouse in Poole was never going to be as exciting as last year’s Centenary - WeyBay weren’t singing! But the meeting was opened by Christchurch WI with a very current sketch. They were dressed as Suffragettes and their song was both poignant and amusing. The meeting continued with the usual round of updates and addresses and the morning ended with a surprisingly interesting speaker. If you think as the author did the talk “Passion for Pearls “was going to be boring you would be wrong. Frances Benton passion for pearls was kindled by her grandmother as a ten-year-old and she has loved them ever since. She told us about the value and rarity of natural pearls and the start of farmed pearls by Kokichi Mikimoto in 1893. He was able to mimic the natural process by implanting a nucleus into the oyster and the method he developed is still used today to form beautiful lustrous pearls. A cracking talk and the afternoon speaker was even better! She was the Bake Off ‘s 2014 winner Nancy Birtwhistle and she was so funny! Nancy had an amusing start to her audition to Bake Off and arrived soaking wet from a rain storm with a soggy Lemon Meringue Pie after turning up at the wrong venue. She thinks her repartee with judges as she rushed in may have earned her a place on the show though of course it was her baking that made her the winner. Pastry was her speciality and the author is about to try out her unique method. Jam puffs anyone? A thoroughly interesting meeting but not many WeyBay members present. It’s really worth booking up next year. BOOK CLUBS The three book clubs are a very successful part of WeyBay. The members organise the group themselves taking it in turn to choose books to read. The original book club is run by Louise Swinton and she had taken the time to write this report of the recently read books. You will find it interesting and it should encourage everyone to get reading and maybe try something that they wouldn't normally consider. So far this year we have read some old and some new books. In January we read To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Everyone really enjoyed this, even though some had read it a long time ago. We scored it 10/10 (unheard of before). Beautifully written through the eyes of the two children of Atticus Finch, it gave us an excellent insight into prejudiced life in a 1930’s small town in the Deep South. Atticus was employed to represent a young black man accused of the rape of a white woman. Full of horror, humour and wisdom, this book is a “must read”. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Again some of us had read this when we were young but we decided that to reread a book years later gives a different perspective. This was based on the Author’s life and was published in 1868! It is a moral tale of family life around the time of the Civil War. The mother guides her four teenage girls to develop their own personalities yet to be aware of good family values. The innocence of those times is brought out well. We all loved the support the sisters gave each other and the simplicity of life was well described. How times have changed! 8/10 Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga. This story is set in Mumbai and centres around a group of people who live in a block of dilapidated flats. The residents get along with life and each other in a an accepting way. Their whole existence changes when they are approached by a developer who offers them large sums of money to leave their homes so that he can demolish the building and rebuild his “dream” apartment block. The rest of the story centres around the greed, corruption and dreams of each flat owner. The descriptions of life in India are excellent. 7/10 THINGS TO DO
Have you checked out our Things to Do pages? The WeyBay committee have been busy arranging trips and get-togethers for WeyBay's lucky members. In the next weeks there are a cycling day in the New Forest and a visit to Morton Church planned as well as the monthly 'coffee mornings with a walk' and newly formed Lunch Club. Keep an eye on the website to see what's going on or find out details from the monthly meetings.
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Announcements
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WEYBAY’S NEW YOGA and SOUNDBATH EXPERIENCE 15 of our members took up the whole new experience of Ashtang Yoga followed by a Sound Bath at Dorchester Yoga Centre last Sunday evening. Mark Winterburn taught us how ...
Posted Oct 15, 2014, 4:47 AM by Sandra Jones -
2014 TRUST ME YOU CAN DO IT TRIATHLON Seven WeyBabes swam, walked and cycled in the second of the 2014 'Trust Me You Can Do It' Triathlon. The Triathlon was organised by Carolyn Lyness and started with a ...
Posted Oct 6, 2014, 1:13 AM by Sandra Jones -
EXPLORERS GROUP The third meeting of the Explorer group was on a breezy August Day and was organised by Carolyn Lyness. She chose Worth Matravers in the Purbecks to explore and those ...
Posted Aug 26, 2014, 1:16 AM by Sandra Jones
