Following the chat on our Whats App group about sorting out our lofts, sherry glasses, bags, clothes and photos, a visit from professional organiser, Hester Van Hien from Tidylicious was obviously very timely! Hester had lots of tips about how to declutter and save space in our homes without being minimalist and while recognising that… Continue reading
Category Archives: Meetings
Qi gong with Drew Sinclair – Our January 2024 meeting
What a great start to our new WI year as Drew introduced us to qi gong, gently breathing, stretching and balancing our way to perfect calm! A wonderful way to start or end the day, to de-stress and take time for ourselves. We also learned that: Qi means ‘Life Force’ and Gong means ‘to cultivate… Continue reading
2024 Meeting Dates
The dates for our 2024 meetings are listed below so you can add them to your new diary as soon as possible. We will be adding full details for each meeting in Upcoming Events. Thursday 18 January Thursday 22 February Thursday 21 March Thursday 18 April Thursday 16 May Thursday 20 June Thursday 18 July… Continue reading
A golden evening – our December 2023 meeting
Thank you Lucy Anne for a gold themed evening of gilding! Our Christmas trees and decorations were even shinier this year with the addition of the gilded stars and snails we made at our December meeting. We glued and brushed our way to success learning new words (skewings*) and having a jolly good chat… Continue reading
The Queen’s Police Officer – Our November 2023 meeting
We enjoyed a thoroughly entertaining evening with Richard Griffin who served in the Metropolitan Police from 1970 to 2013. Richard brought along lots of medals, letters, invitations and photographs from his time working with the royal family and had many excellent stories and anecdotes to tell us about his years looking after the late Queen… Continue reading
We hit the floor Strictly style – October 2023 Meeting
Really had a misconception about ballroom dancing! Who needs a man to lead? Katie Durant returned to Lee Green WI in October for a night of dancing, Strictly style. Warming up with basic steps from the waltz, cha cha and samba, we went on to take our partners and trip the light fantastic while perfecting… Continue reading
Practical First Aid – September 2023 Meeting
We welcomed Julie Durston to our September 2023 meeting to talk about first aid. A really useful and practical session as Julie covered how to help if a casualty is unconscious and deal with bleeding and choking. She reminded us how to give CPR and showed us how not to be scared of using… Continue reading
Managing Plants in an Increasingly Dry Climate – July 2023 Meeting
From left to right, sweet woodruff, gladiolus ‘The Bride’ and thyme, a few of the plants mentioned by Joanna in her talk We welcomed back garden designer Joanna Herald as our speaker at our July meeting. Joanna has been designing gardens for nearly 20 years and was one of the start-up team behind Hortus in… Continue reading
Our June Meeting – The Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich and Some of its Forgotten Women
The Navy has links with Greenwich that go back centuries but it is usually only the retired and disabled sailors, The Greenwich Pensioners, and the officers who managed them that are remembered. Jacky presented a fascinating talk about some of the widows and children, the wives and sisters whose stories she has been discovering. Some… Continue reading
Chocolate and Jerusalem – our May meeting
For our AGM in May we invited Amarachi Clark from Lucocoa to come and tell us all about her company (the only ‘bean to bar’ chocolate maker in London). After graduating with a degree in computer science and a career in charity work (including Comic Relief), Ama then taught herself how to make chocolate… Continue reading
April meeting – Kate Eddowes
In May about 60 members turned out to hear Lynne Dixon’s fascinating talk about the life and times of Kate Eddowes – the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper. Lynne explained that she had read Hallie Rubenhold’s wonderful book ‘The Five: the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. She was enthused… Continue reading
Our March meeting – drumming with Avril Crane
A really fun evening of tub thumping, otherwise known as bucket drumming, with Avril. Avril introduced us to the rhythms and different sounds we could produce by banging our buckets in different places and then swiftly had us making music, playing along to Princess Royal, a… Continue reading