World's Biggest Coffee Morning, Friday 28th September, Goxhill Memorial Hall, 10am-12

Goxhill WI are taking part in the world's biggest coffee morning to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. We need your help to help make this a great success. If you can bake or donate anything for the raffle it will be greatly appreciated. If you can't make it on the day but would still like to join in we are offering a cake order and delivery- we just need to know the day before-what could be simpler-just phone Viv or Alyson and place your order for a home baked WI cake. We hope you are able to help us make this a great coffee morning and raise much needed funds for this cause.

Goxhill WI

Summer outing to Normanby Hall and Gardens . June 2012

We arrived in style in the minibus driven by Shirley

We were given a guided tour of the gardens by the head Gardener.

Betty and Vera view the sunken garden

Alyson and Iris view the cottage garden planting, trying to ignore some of the larger weeds!

Following the tour the members enjoyed roast beef and Yorkshire puddings served in one of the grand rooms in the hall. Pudding of white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake or toffee apple pie rounded of an excellent visit.

Goxhill July 2012

Goxhill WI are keeping a record of the areas in Goxhill which had flooding this July. Caroline has a detailed map of the village and is marking down the areas. The map will be in the Library on Wednesday 18th so please let us know or call in to mark down areas that you know about. We feel it is important to keep this record to share with the Parish Council and Anglian Water.

This is a view from Sheila's house at the corner of Chapel street and North End.





View from Sheila's Drive.

WI members were asked to recall what they were doing on Coronation day 1953. These were displayed along with photographs for all the village to enjoy.

To celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Goxhill WI decided to hold a Tea Dance with music from the 1950's and a traditional 'high tea' of sandwiches, scones and cakes. Invites were posted through the letter boxes of all the residents in the village and the Memorial hall was decorated with everything red, white and blue. In true WI style members were set to task to produce the refreshments and baking for the tea and I have to say that the years of experience resulted in some wonderful cakes, scones and sandwiches.
We had no idea how many people would come but we shouldn't have worried the turn out was fantastic and we served nearly 300 high teas!
 A huge thanks needs to be given to many people for helping make the event such a success and it is difficult to single anyone out, so I will apologise in advance if anyone has been overlooked.
Thanks to-Goxhill Memorial Hall for the use of the hall, Goxhill Parish Council and North Lincolnshire Council for the donation of £300 towards the event, the members of the WI who baked, served, washed pots etc, husbands and relatives of the WI members who were a great help, to Brenda and Vernon who worked tirelessly to make the Tombola a resounding success and to Shirley for the loan of her fantastic cars which had many admirers. Finally thanks to Alyson for all her organisation, planning and for allowing her home to become 'Jubilee Headquarters'. I hope everyone agrees the event was very special and a great success.

Joining the WI

I had to laugh to myself the other day when I opened my purse, alongside my driving licence and bank cards were cards for the National Trust, the library, a prepaid perscription and the WI. How had this happened to me? I still feel the same as I did when I was in my twenties but now in my fifties (early fifties that is) I am going to refuse to get old without a lot of fun and excitement. The WI can sometimes have the image of dare I say,  Jam and  Jerusalem  and it was with a bit of trepidation that I went along to my first meeting. But I have to say that I have met and made friends with some of the nicest people from all ages and backgrounds all working towards having fun and giving something back to the community. I have always been interested in baking and now being officially a member of the WI I have the excuse to try and share new recipes ( in fact it is my duty to visit Lakeland Plastic on a regular basis to keep up with their new lines in cupcake cases).
Great excitement is brewing as me and some other members are entering the Going for Gold challenge. This is where we have to make cakes, arrange flowers, make crafty things for a competition, Kirsty Allsop eat your heart out! Watch this space........
Viv Sharland member for 6 months and enjoying every minute.