Monthly Archives: February 2016

The Book Club

a photograph of a pile of paperbacks topped with a Kindle ebook readerSouthport Central WI has a thriving book club which meets monthly in members homes. Our most recent  meeting was on Thursday 18th February where Emma welcomed us into her lovely home, and even baked a very tasty cake using a W.I. Recipe.

Twelve members met to discuss our January/February book which was Room written by Emma Donoghue. It proved to be one of the liveliest discussions in the history of our book club with most members loving it.

We are now starting our next book but as so many people turned up I ran out of books as the library only supplied ten!

Our next book is called Our Party but unfortunately I’ve forgotten who wrote it as I am one of the people who didn’t get a book!

Our meetings are held on the third Thursday in the month, our next hostess is Yvonne and we look forward to another lively social evening.

Elisabeth Cavanagh

Our Year of Campaigns

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We have started off our year of campaigns tremendously.

The first parcel of bras has  been sent. These go to Smalls for All if anyone is interested in looking at their work.

We will keep a table for every month of collections so we can see how much of a difference we are making to those who aren’t as lucky as us.

The February collection of tins was dropped off at the Southport Soup Kitchen, who are so grateful for everything, along with the sanitary products. These will be distributed with the food parcels the soup kitchen have begun providing, as there are very few homeless women living on the streets.

The Soup Kitchen have asked me to pass on their thanks for our generosity and ongoing support so let’s do what we can for this local cause.

Emma Gillinder

 

WI’s world tour with Southport’s restaurants

KatsuriJanuary saw the dining club carry on their world tour with a trip to India and a visit to the Kasturi restaurant on Eastbank Street. The staff there were friendly and wonderfully welcoming,  even bringing samples to one fussy eater who wanted something that wasn’t fattening but not too spicy. There was a large selection to choose from one the menu, including a comprehensive vegetarian menu. The portions were generous and everyone commented on how delicious the food was. It was also reasonable priced at only £15 a head including wine.

The evening was finished off with a quiz from our host with lollipops as prizes, and questions such as what does the word Kasturi mean? (perfume).

My craving for after dinner mints was easily satisfied with an entire box of after dinner mints – to share not just for me.

The manager there made the evening, definitely worth another visit.

Star rating :

Five golden stars

Emma Gillinder