WI Centenary AGM – What it's like to meet the Queen
It was the WI Centenary AGM at the Albert Hall. I had to go and collect the Lady Denman Cup, which I won last year for writing a poem, ‘What my WI means to me’.…
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It was the WI Centenary AGM at the Albert Hall. I had to go and collect the Lady Denman Cup, which I won last year for writing a poem, ‘What my WI means to me’.…
View PostIt started so well. A sunny May-day Monday saw the usual massive celebrations in Hastings, the Jack-in-the Green festival that fills the Old Town and the West Hill, and a huge motorbike rally that takes…
View PostBattleaxe is feeling especially warm towards the WI sisterhood because our Hastings Ore WI Winter Bazaar was so successful – we raised over £1,300. Such events are massive feats of enterprise and organisation for…
View PostEarlier in the week Battleaxe went on a Women’s Institute outing to Sarah Raven’s garden at Perch Hill Farm, in Brightling, which is in the depths of the country miles from anywhere between Battle and…
View PostThis week there was a rumpus about the delivery of 22 million free ‘English’ editions of the Sun. What a waste of paper – I will post ours back using their Freepost if I can…
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