NWTN members in their festive finery
We rounded off 2022 with a fun festive social. In this post, Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather reports on what we got up to and her impressions of the event.
The Festive Social was well organised with plenty of instructions and information in advance. Unlike me, who was still was wrapping the present for Secret Santa and finishing off my cake for the
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Knitting & Crafts Social Saturday
Over the last decade or so, we have all at some point or another, had occasion to question and assess the sustainability of the way we consume, work and generally live our lives. In the drive towards sustainability, we have been encouraged to recycle, upcycle, repair, do-it-ourselves, and generally make do and mend rather than buying new. As a result, knitting, sewing and other crafts have grown
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Festive Social 2021
To mark the end of the year and to brighten up winter, we invited our members to a social meeting in Manchester at Oppidan Social, on Saturday 11th December. It was a fabulous opportunity to catch up in a relaxed and fun atmosphere, with a Christmas quiz, pass-the-parcel and a Christmas jumper competition. This face-to-face event was a great chance to finally meet some new members (including one
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Summer picnic at Heaton Park – 24 July 2021
For the NWTN's first face-to-face event of the year, we hosted a summer picnic at Heaton Park, in Manchester. Until the day before, the forecast was not promising, but the weather decided to give us a dry afternoon with some sun at the end!
We spent three hours together, catching up with each other’s news and even meeting a new member we had seen only on Zoom. With conversations about
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