Carol threw open the doors to her new home by hosting a Wine Tasting 12 members enjoyed a Come Dine with Me Wine Tasting in January. We tasted 6 wines, 3 white and 3 red. The focus was on the 2 grape varieties from different countries so that we could compare and contrast the differences and decide what we each liked or didn’t! We used a standard wine tasting method of looking at colour, smell and taste. We also identified the difference between ‘old world’ and ‘new world’ taste with a group favouring new world taste which tends to be more fruity and ‘higher in alcohol’!! It was fun deciding if you should drink or spit and I think on balance most decided to drink – are we surprised or not, I think not!!! The white grape was Chardonnay from France, California and Australia. The red grape was Malbec from France, Argentina and South Africa. Overall favourite was Kumala Reserve Malbec from South Africa at £7.50 from Tesco.
It’s lovely to be back and to see you fabulous ladies.
Happy New Year to you all!
Are you ready to kick start 2020? We had a bright and cheerful evening to lift us out of the post Christmas blues. So we kicked off (literally) the first meeting of 2020 with a self defence class under the expert eye of Lisa from Unite Southport which is one of our local Taekwondo studios. Now she’s a 3rd Dan you really wouldn’t want to mess with (even with a sore throat)! The idea of the session was to be able to hold our own if we were in the unfortunate position of being held against our will. We were told to pair up and then set too …. the art of breaking free if we are being restrained at the wrists or even by the neck.
I would like to think we would manage to keep safe if we found ourselves in a sticky position and at the time I felt I did fairly well in holding my own, however when I got home I thought I would try out my new tricks on my much taller son – on dear ! Did quite work and it’s fair to say I failed miserably to get out of his grip. He, however, was delighted. Of course I could have kneed him in the ****** but I just couldn’t do it and to be honest the thought of grandchildren at some point is appealing!
Lisa about to break free
Emma has waited for a legitimate excuse to get her hands around Beth’s neck …. sisterly love
2020 Resolutions
The second half of our meeting, after the tea and cakes of course, was taken up with voting on the resolution. The Women’s Institute has long been campaigning on a wide range of issues. In fact, there have been 400 resolutions passed since 1918. These resolutions range from issues such as equal pay for women, women police, women on jury service to addressing food poverty. The one thing all WI resolutions have in common is that they are all suggested and voted in by WI members. At our December meeting we discussed the five 2019/2020 resolutions shortlist. 1. Female Crash Test Dummies 2. Time to talk about death and dying 3. End modern slavery 4. Protect our precious helium 5. A call to increase potential stem cell donor registration.
Our votes were : 1st with 11 votes – Protect our precious helium, 2nd with 10 votes – End modern slavery, 3rd with 5 votes – Time to talk about death and dying, 4th with 3 votes – A call to increase stem cell donor registration 5th with 1 vote – Female crash test dummies. Sue will send these results to LFWI who will collate the Lancashire results, they in turn will then forward them onto the NFWI.
