→ What To Bring 

• Correct cash for refreshments (50p each);
• Name badge.

→ Subgroup Calendar 

→ Email Roundup 

• Coming soon

Crafternoon: Every Third Saturday at 14:00, Beeston Methodist Church (£3)

An invitation from Joanne 

We don’t have any pictures for you this month, but we do have this invitation from our Joanne…

Come and join us at CRAFT GROUP on the third Saturday at 2pm! Bring your projects, something new perhaps, and ask any questions of our highly experienced crafters. Or just chat 

Please let me know if you will be coming (by commenting on Facebook) or by message. Beeston Methodist Church, Chilwell Road. £3.

Supper Club: Every Third Wednesday (19:00)

This Month: Lagan Indian Tapas, Beeston

From their website:

It was Suraj’s dream to open his own restaurant and now with the great success of the Mewar Haveli in Radcliffe on Trent, Suraj is now at Beeston looking to please all of the foodies that love their Indian cuisine. Although this restaurant is a tapas, being a branch of Mewar Haveli we ensure that our customer service and the quality of our food is second to none.

Our team is well experienced in cooking and serving the food from various five star hotels in different parts of the world. Chefs have travelled miles and miles of rural, urban India in search of traditional and home made cooking recipes. It is here at Beeston they will exhibit their talent of master cooking.

Presenting a twist to the typical fine dining Indian cuisine. With an elegant decor and a very modern themed design. The presentation will make you want to take a photo to show off to your friends, the taste will leave you speechless and the service will make you feel like family. The overall experience will leave you excited to come back for more!

Cafe Society: Every last Wednesday (14:00)

This Month: The Canalside Heritage Centre

From their website:

The tearoom is open seven days a week, 9.30am to 4pm.

Our menu includes sweet treats like freshly baked scones and homemade cakes, as well as lunch options such as jacket potatoes, a range of sandwiches, pasta pots and homemade quiches. We also serve a breakfast menu from 9.30am – 12pm which includes bacon and sausage cobs and scrambled eggs on toast.

There are also vegan and gluten free options available, please ask a member of staff and they will be happy to help with this.

Breakfast is served 9.30am – 12pm

Lunch is served 12pm – 2.30pm

Please note that the tearoom is very popular so we cannot guarantee all menu options will be available when you arrive.

We also offer gluten free and vegan options whenever possible. If you have any food allergies or intolerances, please speak to a member of our team and we will be happy to help.

The Hive WI Committee Meeting: Every Fourth Wednesday at 18:30 on Zoom

As a volunteer-driven organization, we rely on the time and talent of our members to make our events and activities possible.

We would love to have you on board!

If you’re interested in joining the committee or want to learn more about what it entails, please get in touch at thehivewi@gmail.com. We would be happy to answer any questions you may have. You can also sit in on a session to see what we’re about, with no expectation of you joining.

We hope to hear from you soon!

Book Club: Every Last Thursday at 19:00 on Zoom

This Month: The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees and the forthcoming novel The Book of Longings, a novel about two unforgettable American women.

Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.

Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.

Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.

As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements.

Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.

This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.

→ What To Bring 

• A mug, plate, and butter knife;
• Gifts for the gift swap;
• Correct cash for refreshments (50p each);
• Name badge.

→ Subgroup Calendar 

→ Email Roundup 

• Coming soon

Crafternoon: Every Third Saturday at 14:00, Beeston Methodist Church (£3)

An invitation from Joanne 

We don’t have any pictures for you this month, but we do have this invitation from our Joanne…

Come and join us at CRAFT GROUP on the third Saturday at 2pm! Bring your projects, something new perhaps, and ask any questions of our highly experienced crafters. Or just chat 

Please let me know if you will be coming (by commenting on Facebook) or by message. Beeston Methodist Church, Chilwell Road. £3.

Supper Club: Every Third Wednesday (19:00)

This Month: The Cadland Pub, Beeston

Cafe Society: Every last Wednesday (14:00)

This Month: Yet to be announced

A note from Katie:

As you can see, we really enjoyed our cakes at Christine’s Delights!
There were only 5 of us, but lots of interesting conversation and giggles.

The location of the next cafe event will be posted on Facebook and emailed out to members.

The Hive WI Committee Meeting: Every Fourth Wednesday at 18:30 on Zoom

As a volunteer-driven organization, we rely on the time and talent of our members to make our events and activities possible.

We would love to have you on board!

If you’re interested in joining the committee or want to learn more about what it entails, please get in touch at thehivewi@gmail.com. We would be happy to answer any questions you may have. You can also sit in on a session to see what we’re about, with no expectation of you joining.

We hope to hear from you soon!

Book Club: Every Last Thursday at 19:00 on Zoom

This Month: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

“She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going… I had existed whole years without her, but that was all it had been. An existence. A book with no words.”

Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history–performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.

Unfortunately for Tom, the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society’s watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can’t have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present.

How to Stop Time tells a love story across the ages–and for the ages–about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

→ What To Bring 

• Food (for those who volunteered to bring some);
• A photo of yourself at five;
• A mug or beaker;
• Correct cash for refreshments (50p each);
• Name badge.

→ Subgroup Calendar 

→ Email Roundup 

• Coming soon

Crafternoon: Every Third Saturday at 14:00, Beeston Methodist Church (£3)

An invitation from Joanne 

We don’t have any pictures for you this month, but we do have this invitation from our Joanne…

Come and join us at CRAFT GROUP on the third Saturday at 2pm! Bring your projects, something new perhaps, and ask any questions of our highly experienced crafters. Or just chat 

Please let me know if you will be coming (by commenting on Facebook) or by message. Beeston Methodist Church, Chilwell Road. £3.

Supper Club: Every Third Wednesday (19:00)

This Month: Lucky’s Cantonese Restaurant

Cafe Society: Every last Wednesday (14:00)

This Month: Christine’s Delights

Book Club: Every Last Thursday at 19:00 on Zoom

This Month: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by James Robertson

Rosemary’s young, just at college, and she’s decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we’re not going to tell you too much either: you’ll have to find out for yourselves, round about page 77, what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other.

Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone – vanished from her life. There’s something unique about Rosemary’s sister, Fern. And it was this decision, made by her parents, to give Rosemary a sister like no other, that began all of Rosemary’s trouble. So now she’s telling her story: full of hilarious asides and brilliantly spiky lines, it’s a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice.

It’s funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it, and if, when you’re telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern – it’s pretty hard to resist – don’t worry. One of the few studies Rosemary doesn’t quote says that spoilers actually enhance reading.

→ What To Bring 

• Drinks;
• Items for the donation (see above);
• An apron, gloves, and scissors;
• Name badge.

→ Next Two Meetings 

• 11 January: The Hive’s Birthday Party!
• 8 February: Cider-tasting With Cheese and Biscuits 

→ Subgroup Calendar 

• Crafternoon: Sunday 17, 14:00
• Book Club: Thursday 29, 19:00

→ Email Roundup 

• Coming soon

Supper Club Special: Christmas Dinner

Where: Amores

A meal at Amores is becoming a Hive WI winter tradition!

This year, 20 Hive members went to the restaurant.

Cheryl (green hat) sent in this photo for the newsletter…

It is always so lovely to look back on your photos, so, if you have any, feel free to post them in our members-only Facebook group!

Crafternoon: Every Third Saturday at 14:00, Beeston Methodist Church (£3)

Your pictures 😍

Amanda made this unique leather shell with a mirror inside:

Joanne made some new friends for Christmas:

Sarah’s decorations are handmade chic:

Ruth’s amazing mosaic birds had everyone a-flutter:

Join our crafters on the 17th of December for some pre-Christmas crafting and relaxing.

Cafe Society: Not this month, but…

Last Month: Fintons

Here is another photo of you! This time at Fintons with our Cafe Society:

Here is Katie’s review:

Seven of us ventured further afield for Café Club this month, enjoying soup, sandwiches and scones at Fintons bakehouse and café in Breaston.

We will be adding it to our list for another visit sometime next year.

Thank you, Katie! You’ve put me in the mood for soup 🥣

Book Club: Every Last Thursday at 19:00 on Zoom

This Month: Memoirs Of An Imaginary Friend by Matthew Green

I am not imaginary…

Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He’s been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends. But Budo feels his age and thinks constantly of the day when eight-year-old Max Delaney will stop believing in him. When that happens, Budo will disappear.

Max is different from other children. Some people say he has Asperger’s, but most just say he’s “on the spectrum.” None of this matters to Budo, who loves Max unconditionally and is charged with protecting him from the class bully, from awkward situations in the cafeteria, and even in the bathroom stalls. But he can’t protect Max from Mrs. Patterson, a teacher in the Learning Center who believes that she alone is qualified to care for this young boy.

When Mrs. Patterson does the unthinkable, it is up to Budo and a team of imaginary friends to save Max—and Budo must ultimately decide which is more important: Max’s happiness or his own existence.

Matthew Dicks’ Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend is a triumph of courage and imagination that touches on the truths of life, love, and friendship as it races to a heartwarming . . . and heartbreaking conclusion.

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Crafternoon: Every Third Saturday at 14:00, Beeston Methodist Church (£3)

Last Month: Alfie’s (reviewed by Katie)