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Only a week to go until we explore the Common
Hopefully everyone is looking forward to our next meeting – only a week away now! For anyone who’s missed our monthly newsletter with the details, we’re venturing away from the usual venue of the Slug and Lettuce for one month only to explore Southampton Common. The important details: When: 7.30pm, Tuesday 27th August Where: Hawthorns…
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Has anyone been growing their own yet?
July’s meeting was all about ‘Growing Your Own’ (it all seems so long ago now) and we had a wonderful and informative evening discussing ways to get involved with growing fruit, veg and herbs, especially if you have limited outside space yourself. Thank you to Lorraine from Allotinabox for coming along to talk about their…
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June 2013 – Clothes Swap
After the massive success of our clothes swap last year, we decided to bring it back for a second round! We had another great turn out with lots of regular members and also a lot of first time visitors. We were also lucky enough to be visited by some very lovely and glamorous ladies from…
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The Sotonettes and The New Forest Show
Some of you may already know about The New Forest & Hampshire County Show but for those who don’t, it’s an extremely popular annual event held in late July with livestock displays, showjumping, fruit, vegetables, flowers, all sorts of exhibitors and also (most importantly) a large WI tent. Last year even The Queen and Prince…
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Denman ‘Mother and Daughter’ Weekend by Ann-Marie Skill
One of our wonderful members, Ann-Marie, recently visited Denman College with her Mum (also a WI member!) and wrote us a lovely review of their weekend. We would like to thank Ann-Marie very much – x Inspired by joining the Sotonettes last December I invited my mum (North Lincolnshire WI) on a ‘Mother and Daughter’…
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Sotonettes 1st Birthday – February 2013
On the 26th February we celebrated our 1st Birthday – one year since our very first meeting and when the Sotonettes officially became a WI! In celebration, our February meeting was a big birthday party with party bags, party games, a huge raffle and so much cake brought along by members and guests. It was…