Category: Clubs and Societies

On a fine Saturday in April forty-three members of the Kibworth Rambling Group headed to Kendal, Cumbria for our annual coach holiday.

In our April meeting, the Kibworth Art Lovers were treated to a new look at painting with pastels. Nuneaton based artist, Estelle Robinson, has 30 years of experience in painting portraits and she presented pastels as a forgiving and versatile medium.  She says, “With portraiture it’s all in the eyes of course, get those right then everything else seems to follow.”

In April we welcomed Carolyn Boulter who showed us how to make an owl paperweight. Being well-organised, Carolyn brought along some owls she had made earlier. She had also prepared about 50 kits containing everything we needed, right down to a needle ready-threaded with cotton to match the fabric in each kit. It must have taken her ages! Members selected the kit they liked according to their colour preference.

Our Plant and Seed Sale will be on Saturday 21 May, 10am - 12noon

No longer in full-time work and finished raising a family? Consider joining the Kibworth & District u3a. Our vibrant social hub for learning and fulfilment is a great venue for making friends and having fun.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published another report. 

2017 Douro “Castrum” Quinta do Crasto (Co-op £9.99)

Swing into Spring at Kibworth Golf Club!

On 24 March, three members of the Easy Riders set off with two van loads of donations of aid. This included over £3500 of aid for the refugee crisis on the Poland and Ukraine border.  On arriving at the town of Zamosc, contact was made with a local group who had converted a large house to accommodate 40 Ukrainians.  Over the next two days, Keith Low, Simon Hargreaves, and Mark Evans, together with fellow driver Ben Poulter, bought two months’ worth of shopping for the group and a freezer to keep the food in.

Illston- on-the-Hill WI welcomed Holly Norvill to our last meeting. She attempted to get us creative! We made beautiful coasters and plaques. Holly had brought all the gear with her, including flowers, leaves and bits of shrubs. We had to roll out some clay, select what picture we wanted to make, depress the bits into the clay, including some berries which came out beautifully. Then put a mould over our creations, pour on plaster of Paris, leave to dry, remove the outside mould and clay, seal off the disc and paint. What could be easier? Hope you are all still with me. You would be surprised how much of an issue some of us made!