Didsbury Festival
In 2011 the Festival will be on Saturday 11th June at 11am
Didsbury Festival 2010 – Saturday 12th June 2010 – Best Stall Award!!
Retro kitsch bunting, cakes, jams and big black campaign T-shirts to show our more serious side! All your hard work paid off as we raised load of money for Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital charity and won the Didsbury Festival Best Stall Award. Jane, who organises the event says we looked wonderful (even positive reports from teenagers) in the procession and really raised awareness we were in the village. The stall sold out early with queues 3 or 4 deep for the cakes, crafts and jams. Zoe’s Iced Tea was a hit on a hot day too. Well done everyone. See the pictures in the Gallery page.
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Didsbury Festival 2009 – Our first Didsbury Village WI Marquee
SOS for Honey Bees
Despite the heavy rain all day, we still had a good time and sold almost all we had. The marquee looked great. A corner of it was dedicated to ‘A Hive of Information’ about the bee; Leila sold some books; the cakes & crafts looked fantastic and I qualified for The Apprentice with my Bee Finger-puppet hard selling.
Thank you so much to everyone who donated time & goods to us. Especially thank you to those of you who put in a lot of effort to dress as bees on such a soggy day! In all we took nearly £300 and certainly had lots of enquiries about the WI in Didsbury- I hope we can fit all the visitors in the room in July!
Here’s some photos of the day.
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Liz Thornhill | June 7, 2009 at 8:40 pm
left handed liz – she of the broken right arm, and no capital letters – says well done to everyone !!! i was soooo sorry to miss the festival, even the rain. you all did a fantastic job! the photos look great.
thank you from all the bees too…..
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didsburyvillagewi | June 8, 2009 at 6:18 pm
I think I may be finally dry. Sal x
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scarletleila | June 15, 2009 at 11:59 am
I just can’t believe there are so many talented women out there that bake fabulous cakes, SO bad for my waistline but oh so yummy!!!
Well done everyone, was a brilliant day! xxx
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didsburyvillagewi | June 15, 2009 at 12:37 pm
We made The Reporter! http://www.southmanchesterreporter.co.uk/news/s/1119739_singing_in_the_rain
The actual caption said” Youngsters enjoy the rain”!! maybe the first time the WI’s been called oyung
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Liz Thornhill | June 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm
thank you all for the beautiful flowers and card.
the lovely pauline has just hand delivered them – perfect timing cos my original flowers from 2 weeks ago are wilting.
i’m feeling better every day now that i’ve had the opp, i’ve just got to learn to be a patient patient….
in case someone out there hasn’t heard how i managed to break my upper arm, well, i was watering a hanging basket and fell off a 6 inch high stool …. how WI is that! i’m trying to think of a much more exiting lie to tell from now on – any ideas?
love and thanks to all
Liz x
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kat mann | July 6, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Was on my hols,so sorry I missed it.Well done everyone.!
Shall we make it bigger and better next year?
Kat x