Chatterbrook WI

On Wednesday, despite the inclement weather, members from Chatterbrook and Tref-y-Clawdd had a wonderful afternoon visiting the gardens at Lower House Farm in Tenbury Wells, open as part of the National Garden Scheme. There were herbaceous borders, box-parterre, roses, kitchen and cutting garden and wildlife pond to see and was enjoyed by all.

Members of our walking group did the 5 miles Paradise Farm walk out of Presteigne, wonderful views and company 🥾☀️

Congratulations to all our entrants at the County Show who did us proud by bringing home a first and several thirds across the range of classes. We even brought home the Millennium trophy, shared with Nantmel, for the small table display - a picnic by the riverside. Thank you to everyone who took part!

We had fun at our meeting last night when we all got creative. Our members Soo, Vicky and Jeanette showed others either how to crochet, make a hedgehog from a book or make a peg doll. Aren’t we talented!

MEET YOUR LOCAL WI ON THE RIVER LUGG!

In support of various initiatives including the National Federation of WI’s campaign for Clean Rivers and the Rivers Trust Big River Watch, your local WI’s of Llangunllo and Chatterbrook will be celebrating the Welsh section of the River Lugg particularly from its source to the borders. Events will be run over the May Bank Holiday 4th to 6th in Llangunllo and Norton so please come and meet us at the following.

LLANGUNLLO

On Saturday 4th May river themed activities will run from 2.30pm until 4pm in Llangunllo Community Wildlife Garden (near the Greyhound pub) including:

What lives in the river bed? - Kick sampling led by Phil 'the bug man' and Dan of the Wilder Lugg project.

River scroll collaboration and other arts & crafts - for children and adults.

Also a chance to hear about River Lugg related developments at Pentwyn and to meet water monitors.

Look out for the Lugg Pop-up exhibition in the phone box at the centre of Llangunllo!

Radnorshire Wildlife Trust will be running a walking event between Pentwyn to Source of the Lugg on Saturday 4th of May, 9am until 1:30pm (please book online).

NORTON

On Monday 6th May the village of Norton is holding a Table Sale in the newly opened Norton Community Hub between 10am and 4pm. Chatterbrook WI will be running a River Lugg Treasure Hunt based on the river catchment with the chance to win a picnic hamper for two to enjoy on the riverbank of your choice! We will also highlight the work of the citizen scientists and link to the Wilder Lugg project.

Finally some blue skies for the walking group’s 5 mile walk at Leintwardine this morning, little bit muddy in places but nothing we couldn’t handle and the fish and chips for lunch were delicious, thank you to Chris for leading the way 🥾☀️

Gail Jones from Powys National Garden Scheme gave a very interesting talk about the development of the NGS at our last meeting and wrote about her visit in the Brecon and Radnorshire Express. After seeing pictures of some of the beautiful garden’s many of our members are now looking forward to visiting some of the local gardens during the summer ☀️👩‍🌾🪴

Happy Easter to you all 🐣🐣🐰🐣🐣

Lovely 3 mile walk this week around Shobdon to the Arches and the church,
had to stick to the paths and roads because everywhere is so wet!

Happy weekend peeps 😊

Four intrepid ladies from the Walking Group braved the weather for the first walk of the year, a lovely 2.3 mile circular walk at Cascob with a visit to St Michael’s church at the end 🥾

Is it just me?! 😆

After last night’s discussion, thought this was very appropriate! 🤣🤣

Nice thought for today, Happy February everyone! 😊

Merry Christmas to all our lovely ladies, see you all in the New Year xx

Lovely Christmas lunch today at the wonderful Rose Cottage, such delicious food, would highly recommend!
Thank you Chris Wells and Claire Brown for organising 👏👏👏👏🎄🎄🎄

Great Christmas Party tonight with so many of our lovely ladies. Fun entertainment courtesy of Catherine O’Rourke, delicious supper and lovely company 👍🎄🎄🎄🍷🍷🍷

There we are ladies, says it all! Have a great weekend 🎄🎄🎄🎄😉

Lovely frosty day, keep warm everyone this weekend 🥶 (It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎶🎄) 😊

Another great walk this morning led by Cynthia and Ann, up onto Offa’s D**e and back to Norton for lemon drizzle cake and coffee! And we didn’t get wet!! Thank you ladies for organising and Cynthia for the truly delicious cake 😊🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️

Happy Halloween all! 🎃👻😊

Just seen this on another WI’s FB page and thought summed us up! 😊

Thought this was very appropriate for our WI! Have a great week everyone 😊

What a beautiful day for a WI Walk 😎 around Stapleton - tricky bit of path meant we had to double back, but made worthwhile by seeing 3 dear in the woods (too quick for the photographer!). Finished up along the Brink then back to the cemetery car park, 10,000 steps completed ✔️

This came up on my iPad today, so happy we did the Dawn walk 👍 Happy Weekend peeps 😁

A Big Thank You to the centenary committee for the wonderful celebratory lunch today at the Metropole Hotel. We had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the event - it was so lovely to get together and wear nice frocks! 👗👒😊🙏

Members of Chatterbrook WI celebrating Powys/Radnor Federation’s centenary by wearing their favourite hats! 👒🎩🎓🧢⛑️🤠😊