Northampton Martinis WI

It’s the solar eclipse today. Will you be watching? (not directly obviously as that’s bad for your eyes!) 🌒

Jut a reminder that during August we take a break and don't hold a monthly meeting so there is no meeting tonight. Our next meeting will be on Monday 14th September where we will be hearing about The Workhouse 🍸

It was a busy week last week for the Martinis. Our Pudding Club visited The C**k Inn and had a lovely time. They scored the food 9/10 and would definitely return.

Our Feasting Round the World group took a trip to Italy via Rushden where they visited La Famiglia Pizzeria & Ristorante. The food and service were great.

Finally, our Gardening Club visited Cambridge Botanical Gardens where they had a fabulous time looking at all of the plants and flowers as well as watching ducklings and baby moorhens 🦆🍸

Today is National Happiness Happens Day! The Martinis love to make people happy and we're a very happy, friendly group 🌞🍸

Last week it was our monthly craft subgroup. We meet in the pub and members have the option of having dinner together before the craft or just turning up for the craft. We do a different craft each month.

This month’s craft was water colouring and the results are brilliant. Everyone had a really good time 🌸🍸

It’s 72 years today since the first Lord of the Rings book was published. The Martinis love a good book. We have a book club, The Booktinis which meets monthly at Poppyfields Farm. Members can enjoy dinner and a chat before book club or just come for the book chat 📚🍸

Last week our Quick Supper subgroup visited The Sunnyside Pub. The food was good and we had a really good time.

Our Quick Supper group is an opportunity for us to meet up at one of the Northampton pubs and have an early dinner and a chat every other month 🍔🍸

Did you know that July is National Ice Cream Month? The Martinis love a dessert and even have a sub group specifically designed for enjoying dessert, our Pudding Club! Pudding Club meets once a month at various locations across Northampton where we enjoy a yummy dessert and a friendly chat 🍦🍸

It was our monthly meeting last week and our speaker was Andy Tennet, retired detective chief inspector. He gave us a really interesting talk on his job and talked us through one of the murder cases that he had worked on.

The competition at our meeting was “something beginning with M”. We had some interesting entries and Florence’s duck mosaic was the winner.

We had a second collection for the Baby Basics charity and our members went above and beyond donating a huge amount of items to help them.

As we prepare to take our summer break in August, the committee gifted every member an educational wellbeing pamper pack with lots of little goodies in 😊🍸

At our monthly meeting this week, we had a collection for Baby Basics Northampton. Baby Basics is a volunteer-led charity which supports new parents and newborn babies in vulnerable situations. A very worthwhile cause.