What's occurring at Birchgrove WI?
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Subgroup Dates 2017
January 12th February 9th March 9th April 13th May 11th June 8th July 13th August 10th September 14th October 12th November 9th |
February 9th
Our readers will be discussing Baking Cakes In Kigali by Gaile Parkin, in which a middle aged woman from Tanzania settles into a new life in Rwanda with five orphaned grandchildren. Baking celebration cakes provides her with both a livelihood and an introduction into a whole new network of friends and neighbours, their secrets and their stories. Keen readers can collect a copy of the book from Avril Dart at our January meeting. |
With February's subgroup social falling on the birthdate of Carmen Miranda, we're taking a tip from the 'Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat', and inviting our bakers to cook up something delicious to share with the group using tropical fruits.
Brazilian bombshell Carmen found fame in '40s Hollywood playing up her 'exotic' origins by wearing elaborate headdresses piled high with colourful fruit; we'd prefer our bakers to bring their tropical offerings along in a cake tin or plastic container, but if the mood takes you...!
The rest of us will be sure to have plenty to chat about, whether we do so over our crafting projects, or a glass of something from the bar.
Brazilian bombshell Carmen found fame in '40s Hollywood playing up her 'exotic' origins by wearing elaborate headdresses piled high with colourful fruit; we'd prefer our bakers to bring their tropical offerings along in a cake tin or plastic container, but if the mood takes you...!
The rest of us will be sure to have plenty to chat about, whether we do so over our crafting projects, or a glass of something from the bar.
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Main Meeting Dates 2017
January 26th February 23rd March 23rd April 27th May 25th June 22nd July 27th August 24th September 28th October 26th November 23rd December 21st |
February 23rd
Siarad Cymraeg? In the run up to St. David's Day, we'll be joined by Dr. Dylan Foster Evans, Reader in Welsh Language and Literature at Cardiff University. With specialisations both in the Welsh language culture of Cardiff, and in the poetry of the fertile late medieval period, when the likes of Dafydd ap Gwilym and Guto'r Glyn flourished, Dylan is well placed to talked to us about the varied past, present and future of our national language. 
We'll round off with an opportunity to learn to sing the Welsh national anthem, Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. Whether your heart swells with pride each time you hear it belted out from a packed stadium, or you couldn't pick it out in a round of Name That Tune, there'll be no need to fear an embarrassing 'John Redwood moment' once the Birchgrove WI scratch choir has taken up the chorus!
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