Thank you to everyone who supported our Christmas Fayre, which was a huge success and the Tombola seemed to be very popular. For our October meeting we were entertained by the fabulous Marion with her fab Drumming. This was her second visit as everyone enjoyed it so much the last time. You may or may not have heard us, apologies if you did!The last time a few of us were so enamoured we were going to set up our own drumming group! You will all be relieved to hear it didn’t happen. We had our usual craft evening in November, with some festive pebble painting where even the least creative of us could have a go! Shapwick Starlets WI SUE SELLICK 4 WI NTER I S SUE | J ANUARY 2 0 2 6 On 29th October we celebrated our 100 birthday in style at the Avalon Marshes Centre courtesy of South West Heritage Trust. We were greeted in the Saxon Long house with mulled Somerset Cider before being given a tour of the site by Dr Richard Brunning, Senior Historic Environment Officer. Such an interesting place especially the re-creation of the Roman mosaic. Our host Susie, then showed us how to do stick weaving around the fire pit, with a demonstration by our very own weaver Louise. And then there was a toast with a lovely glass of chilled Prosecco to bring the th morning to a close. Or so we thought.....while queuing to get our jacket potatoes to take back to the Long house we bumped into Anita Rani from Countryfile. She was very happy to come and have a photo with us and explained that she was filming at Shapwick Moor. She told us she is a big fan of the WI! Since the Spring an amazing group of ‘crafters’ have been spending many hours working on a new banner and bunting to commemorate our birthday. A huge thank you to Jenny and Marion for the amazing banner that now hangs in the village hall and also to Caroline, Jan, Louise, Ros, Jean J, and Lisa for ensuring that we all contributed to the bunting that is also on display in the hall. Jean J has created some wonderful pieces including a special one for Dora! Every member has been presented with a tea towel with a picture of the banner on it as a momento. And as a special treat this year, we had a delicious meal in the hall with outside caterers, so no cooking or washing up! Secret Santa gifts were passed around and just to mix it up a bit, some of us also moved seats. Our netball group also enjoyed a pre-Christmas meal at the Albion, and so didn’t have far to walk home. See p.1 and at points all through this issue of Shapwick News for as many of these wonderful pennants as we could find space for! And finally, we have planted two trees on the village green with the help of Steve. Well actually he did most of the hard work whilst we ‘supervised’. One tree is to commemorate our 100 birthday and the other is in memory of our dear Dora who is no longer with us. th It has been a very eventful year, who knows what we will get up to in our 101 year? st
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