Festive wreaths for sale in the Bircham Centre
Geoff Fisher Members of the Reepham WI craft club have been busy in recent weeks creating festive wreaths.
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The quintessential English cottage garden
Andrew Sankey, garden designer and historian, gave an entertaining talk on the evolution of the English cottage garden.
The role of the magistracy
Magistrates, some 12,000 in the UK, are volunteers aged between 18 and 75 and come from all walks of life.
A round-up of recent events
The last few months have provided Reepham WI members with diverse and interesting events.
Members enjoy talks from writer and forensic scientist
Jeni Neill gave a brief insight into how she took up writing, then self-published her first novel, The Devil’s Dye.
Members debate four resolutions
The Women’s Institute has a long history of campaigning.
Behind the (Nativity) scenes
St Francis of Assisi is thought to have introduced the first living Nativity scene in Greccio on Christmas Eve 1223.
Sweet reasons to fall in love with Turkey
In October our members were transported by a real-life “Shirley Valentine” to a magical place time has forgotten.
Local author’s biography of wild swimming pioneer
Patrick Barkham talked about his recently published book The Swimmer, a biography of Roger Deakin.
Beyond black and beige’
A selection of scarves from the Bircham Centre were sold in aid of its Raise the Roof appeal.