WEST KENT DARTS TOURNAMENT - Sarah in good form.

Each Winter we try to enter a team in the Federation Darts tournament and this year is no exception..  It is started with competion between teams in our Local District and we play in various Pubs in the Holllingbourne, Bearsted Area usually.

This winter we have beaten  Madginford WI and Bearsted 'A' WI at the George in Leeds, though Bearsted 'B'  WI did get the better of us.
                        

Our Team from the left is is Sarah, Janice, Val, Rita and Christine

At our last game at The Bird in Hand  Bearsted we had a great victory over Madginford.  Sarah was the heroine by winning two out of three of the games with a double one finish and a double two.
(Normally both teams end up trying to get  a double for maximum 5 minutes, then the captains throw for nearest to the bull)  SO THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER!

After the game - Madginford and Hollingbourne the best of friends.

WI Lunch Club

The Lunch club was started this year and we get together each second Tuesday of the month in a local hostelry at 1pm. and has become very popular.   If we are going out of the village we meet at the Village Hall Car Park, ten minutes before and lifts are arranged for those without cars.

For Christmas we lunched at the Parkgate for a very pleasant meal.   

(Same table photo taken from different ends)  

Perhaps you would like to join us in the future.

WI Evening Christmas Party and Lunch

At our WI party we won't be crafty and arty
we won't make jam - we don't care a damn
we will eat, sing and chat in our Old Time Hat,
and hope we don't look to tarty!

So ran the poem in one of our ' to a WI friend'  anonymous Christmas cards
which are given at our party.   We did just what it said -
and the hats were a competition - see

Barbara below who one the prize for the Best  Dressed Old Time Hat.

                                 

Some members had cooked a meal  for us with lots of lovely puds, while we wracked our brains to come up with answers for the Quiz. We played a few games with 'Ping Pong Bingo a special request.

Finally we finished with Christmas songs and carols

                               

Three long suffering husbands donned aprons and did all the washing up,

so a good time was had by all (At least by the ladies)

See you all next year. 

100 years of WI - Baton in Kent.

 The NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMENS INSTITUTES

 IS CELEBRATING ITS 100TH YEAR with many events.

A Baton containing pictures from each county has been moving around the country, beginning in Anglesey where the first ever Institute was formed.    There are 54 English Counties and 13 Welsh Counties, and the baton is well on its way to Cornwall the last County. 

This week, the Baton was handed from Essex to West Kent, traveling by Lifeboat, and is in West Kent for a week.  Today an exhibit was staged in The Mall Maidstone, for all to see, 

with Members of the executive committee in attendance.

Margaret Weaver of Hollingbourne WI had the to chance to see it first hand.  The photographs inside on a memory stick, represent evocative places in Kent.   The baton was also taken along to the North Downs District WI's Christmas Carol Service where each Institute had its Christmas Tree

They were supposed to be no bigger than 2 foot, (though some were)  ours however was a delicate one foot specimen, made of crochet by Sue Weightman  a member with talent!