North Somercotes WI

13/11/2025

10/11/2025

Yesterday on Remembrance day, on behalf of North Somercotes WI, our president, Carine, laid a wreath in remembrance of those who lost their lives, serving for our country.
We will remember them

07/11/2025

Last night speakers were the Donna Nook Search and Rescue team who are based in North Somercotes for easy and quick access to the local area. The team is the most northerly station in Lincolnshire and runs from Saltfleet Haven to Haile Sand Fort in Hull. Donna Nook is lucky enough to have a Coastguard Rescue Vehicle, usually a 4 wheeled drive off the road vehicles which are used for search and to transport manpower and equipment. The officers are all volunteers and available 24 hours a day to respond when called upon by the full time staff based at the Coastguard Operations Centres.
We were given a history of how the coastguard started. During the 1800’s, smugglers were getting out of hand, so the service was created to help fight and bring under control. They became known as Preventative Water Guard and was part of Customs and Excise. In 1825, the first Mortar Rocket started to be in use. A line attached to a rocket with a range of 275 yards could be fired out to vessels in distress and were in regular use by 1825. In 1822, the name of the service changed to HM Coastguard. This caused the usual arguments regarding who was going to fund it. By 1845, the Admiralty took over, and the workers became regular navel personal which is turn increased the size of the Navy. In 1856, anti-smuggling became a minor part of the service and attention was turned to life saving and safety. Stations began to be built across the coast of Britain, one of which was Donna Nook, built in 1859. In 1894, the board of trade was given the responsibility for the establishment and maintenance of rocket and other life saving stations around the coast, for the purpose of giving assistance towards the preservation of life in cases of shipwreck and distress at sea. Coastguard were assisted in manning the life-saving apparatus by local men. In 1922, a new Donna Nook station, lookout and cottages were built. After WWII, the Coastguard became responsible for the Rocket Equipment and in 1946, it ceased to be an Armed service and in 2005, became the Coastguard Rescue Service (CRS) we know today.
The team then gave us a demonstration of CPR, explaining what happens and what to do should someone have a heart attack to keep them alive until the medical help arrives. Several members had a go and found it quite tiring and understood why it was important to keep going and take it turns.
After all that exercise, we were ready for a light supper, chat with friends then ended the evening rushing off to watch the Traitors Final!
www.donnanookcoastguard.org.uk https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064333615458&locale=en_GB
Competition was a piece of art made by yourself about the coast won by Pip, 2nd Lynda, 3rd Karen BS.
Flower of the month was won by Paula, 2nd Sue R 3rd Sue G

05/11/2025

Just a reminder, if your planning on going to the ranch for Christmas meal, please bring your deposit tomorrow night.

16/10/2025

How lovely is this? While on holiday, Annerley visited Coniston where she found this delightful display made by Coniston WI. The detail is so fine.

14/10/2025

!!!!!!!!! CANCELLED !!!!!!!!
Sorry for the late notice but Craft club on Thursday has had to be cancelled.

04/10/2025

This month’s speaker was Nick Timson who gave us many a story of life as a vet, His career was very similar to James Herriot of All creatures great and small books. Some of the stories he told gave us a good laugh such as one customer was an older lady who wore thick glasses who had quite a few cats as you did in those days. One of her cats was poorly and needed treatment. After chasing it all over the house and getting bitten, scratched you name it, the customer gave Nick a bottle of wine to say thank you. When he got back to the practice, he found the wine also contained fur, so it ended up down the drain. Another story he told was when the peacocks at the University in Liverpool near Penny Lane escaped. The students were all called out to chase them and get them back, his words were nasty noisy birds, making such a racket all night and in the early hours of the morning.
Nick’s career started as early as school, he started to help at a farm with a friend of his and worked on Saturday morning at his local vet practice. This along with reading the James Herriot books influenced his career. In 1972 he started at Liverpool university where he studied for 5 years. His last year was spent gaining experience in various farms and vet practices. Between 1977 and 1982 he worked in Devon and Somerset during which he met his wife. In 1982, he moved to Isle of Wight to work for Civil Service as a vet checking the animals before they were imported aboard. He was also the vet looking after the wild animals in the local Wildlife Park on the island. In 1984, he decided there wasn’t enough clinical work to stop him getting bored, so he moved to Louth where he stayed until now. This was when he was heavily involved with the BSE crisis. It was his job to find which cows had the disease by clapping his hands and seeing which ones were nervous. These cows were not fit for human consumption so were taken away, examined and destroyed.
A very interested talk from a vet from the old days where there were no mobiles, no computers or tablets who had to write everything into the day books.
Competition was a photo of an animal won by Annerley, 2nd Lynn, 3rd Pip.
Flower of the month was won by Pip, 2nd Lynn 3rd Jenny

01/10/2025

Lots of clues to solve ‘in our back yard’ so much history. We laughed, explored and thoroughly enjoyed the delicious cakes at Saltfleet Chapel. Guess where we went!!!!

21/09/2025

On Thursday we enjoyed a lovely evening at Bambarinos Manby. Lovely Italian meal, lots of chatter and laughter. A good night was had by all.

21/09/2025

Just a reminder for those ladies who are making poppies for remembrance day, could you bring them to the next meeting on Thursday 2nd October please