Monday 22 June 2015

Green Futures Field - Our Glasto Home!

We've arrived! Today we have been unpacking our marquee, coordinating deliveries of delicous homemade bakes and spreading the word of the wonderful WI in the Green Fields at the world's biggest Contemporary Arts Festival, Glastonbury.

The FAB pyramid stage - HELLO Glastonbury!
If you are at the festival we are located in the Green Futures Field, next to a fabulous field of campers who are adjacent to the Glade! Do drop by darlings - we'd just LOVE to welcome you!

Green Futures Field - our new home!
We will be updating our Twitter and Facebook straight from Worthy Farm so please tune in online:

@WI_Glasto_Cakes on Twitter and on Facebook/wiglastocakes

We look foward to updating you all on our fantastic adventure and our news on how we are celebrating 100 years of the WI!

x WI Glasto Cakes Team

Saturday 20 June 2015

Baking Storms, Wooden Chairs of Epic Proportions & 3300 Tea Bags!

The Glastonbury adventure has gained SO much pace in the last 72 hours with baking vegan lemon drizzle storms, gathering the last few bits at the Somerset Federation office and our delivery of 3300 bags of tea!

We've all been buzzing around the many kitchens of Somerset in the last few days and stuffing our bakes into freezers across the reaches of the county. I alone have topped an epic proportion of 56 vegan lemon drizzles which are awaiting their Glastonbury fate in the coming week!

19 lemon drizzles in one morning baked - hooray!
Visiting the Somerset Federation office to collect all of our last minute flags and promo bits & bobs, I came across the gorgeous tapestry compiled by each WI which hangs proudly from the wall of the Federation office.
Gorgeous Somerset Federation wall hanging tapestry as hosted in the SFWI office
Teamed with the magnificent wooden chair bearing the 'For Home and Country' emblem, I couldn't resist a snap shot to remind us of our foresisters. I wonder if they ever had an inkling that one day their efforts would see us serving tea and cake in the Green Futures Field at Glastonbury?!
For Home & Country chairman's chair in the SFWI office

With a good bit of cake, comes the need for a GREAT cup of something hot, too! Thanks to local Somerset Tea & Coffee merchants, Miles, we are now well and truly stocked for our Glastonbury mission - with 3300 tea bags, huge tubs of coffee and hot chocolate to boot - all entirely fair-trade, of course! Our tea urns will be humming along to the sounds of the beat across the fields with this booty!
Our hot drink stock of fair-trade goodness!
Lucy & Vicci piled together with cups & plates to serve to the Glastonbury masses!
Oh and we've got some very special fabric, too, that we'll be making into something tres exciting, too - but more of that next time….!!

Spotty teapot fabric for a special mystery crafting surprise!


x Joanne

Cambridge Glasto Cakes Correspondent

Tuesday 16 June 2015

...with FAB WI Edible Cookie Discs to boot!

Just when we thought that our Glastonbury adventure couldn't get ANY more FABULOUS.....

...these have literally JUST come hot off the oven presses - aren't they GORGEOUS?!


Our pal from Roses and Rebecca is the mastermindess behind them - we are HUGE fans!



Breakfast Shows, Nail Art & 3.5 kg of Butter

At last, I've arrived in Somerset! The sun is shining, the oven has been going none stop and we are all gathering as the days become single digits ahead of our stall in the Green Fields!

First thing was certainly first! Our stall sister Teresa got us a fabulous shout out from none other than BBC 2 Radio's very own Chris Evans on his Breakfast Show! We were DELIGHTED to be mentioned - especially as Teresa's efforts were beyond mammoth with 19 bakes currently having residence in her village hall's freezer!

Teresa's baking effort - look at those labels!

Fast forward a few hours (and a few hundred miles), later and I land in Somerset JUST in time to join fellow WI Glasto Cakes stall sisters, Katie, Vicci, Margaret and Lucy at the fabulous Feel Better Days nail bar and beauty spot! We've all had tea and cake themed nail art applied and we are LOVING our new decals!

Vicci getting Glasto cakes nailed!
Vicci's end result! With a cake stand to boot!
WI teapot thumbs! YEAH!
Suffragettes teapot thumb!
 I went for a Suffragette themed banner across my cuticles with tea pots and cups on my pinky and thumbs - FABULOUS work, indeed!

…..and what day is complete without having a loving fellow village dweller donating 3.5 kg of butter to our Glastonbury baking effort?!

3.5 kg of butter as present from Alan Scott, Puriton Party in the Park, to help with the Glasto baking effort!
What a fabulous surprise it was to come home to following such a whirlwind of a day - delightful!

More soon darlings - 8 days and counting!

x Joanne

Daisy Change WI/Cambridge Blue Belles WI



Tuesday 9 June 2015

Glasto Blog 5

Well, we are in the final run up to our huge Glastonbury Festival Adventure!

The wonderful ladies of Somerset are baking away, and we are excited about the wonderful cakes we will be receiving (and of course, selling!).  We have been sorting out how we will set up our stand, and as we have a good space we hope to be able to have some seating outside our marquee...very continental!

This week sees us planning our own kit lists, including a camping loo!  We hope we won't need it, but we have sorted out our wet weather gear...just in case.

We have seen the list of huge stars playing at the festival this year and we are excited about meeting just some of them...even the biggest name needs a cup of tea and a slice of cake, right?

We know that lots of fabulous WI members from all over the country will be coming to the Festival and we would really love to see you ALL.  Most of all if any of you feel you could offer us a hand for a couple of hours please, please contact us – we could do with the chance of a sit down!  The lovely Joanne has agreed to co-ordinate all the offers of help, so please contact us via our email or Facebook and we will be in touch!  Thank you in advance for your support!

Best wishes,

Katie