Category: Women
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The Sotonettes and Jane Austen
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mansfield Park being published, we chose Jane Austen to read and discuss this month at the Sotonettes Book Club. The main book was Northanger Abbey, but any book was up for discussion, and we did talk about them all – Mansfield Park, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and of…
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Diabetes Week – 8th to 14th June 2014
Diabetes Week is Diabetes UK’s annual awareness and fundraising week. Laura Davis, one of the Sotonettes, writes about her experiences. She also runs a website for women with diabetes at http://www.womenwithdiabetes.co.uk/ As a type 1 diabetic, I wanted to share this with you and help make some noise about diabetes. I have been diabetic for…
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WI Campaigning – Interesting Listening
For anyone interested in the WI’s campaigns, there have been a few interesting and topical public discussions over the last few days. Maternity Services: In relation to increasing the number of midwives and improving maternity care I’ve noticed lots of discussions on social networks about personal experiences of labour at home, in birthing units and…
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Where do resolutions come from?
We’re writing a series of blogs on the WI tradition of campaigning and the issues that are relevant to the women of today. If you missed our earlier post, find it here to get to know the history of WI campaigns. We wanted to find out how resolutions came to be and how they evolve…
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Afternoon tea anyone?
Hampshire WI cordially invites you to Afternoon Tea (with sparkling wine!) on Tuesday the 3rd of June. In addition to scones, sandwiches and sweet pastries, Lady Carnarvon – resident of Highclere Castle (the setting for Downton Abbey) – will be speaking. Judging by her blog, I’m sure there will be plenty of funny anecdotes to be…
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Women in business!
The world has just finished celebrating International Women’s Day – did you do anything special to mark the date? While we’re all thinking about women and their impact on society, here’s a very inspiring blog post from Hannah Farmer, last year’s President, about her newest venture in business… Last year I made the decision to leave…