OK there are no feminist groups where I live. WI???

[LadyBiscuit]

I don't know a soul here (we moved here from London a few months ago). What do we think about joining the WI? It's women only, enshrined in their constitution.

I've never made jam in my life. Can I effect revolution from within do you reckon?

Bump. I need someone to stop me going along tomorrow morning :o

Well the WI are running something at the women's library so maybe they are the secret military feminist wing. The perfect cover...

Fantastic. I am going to wear green, white and violet and see if I get anyone giving me the eye

Excellent, I'm going to do it.

Bah - just read the website properly and they meet on the 2nd Thursday of every month. Right - I am going to join and go next Thursday.

I'll report back. :o

I accompanied my MIL to her local village WI once. It was a riot. She and her friends sat in the back and sniggered through the chairwoman's announcements, while debating whether they should sneak a mickey of whisky onto the bus for the upcoming excursion to Warwick Castle . We also listened to a genuinely interesting talk on Lincolnshire dialect and sang Jerusalem a cappella. It was fun!

Do it, do it, do it!

yes, go! Love the idea of you rocking up in secret-code-suffragette colours :o

Back when I got interested in feminism I remember thinking ooh wouldn't it be good if there was a women-only group in every village that met up regularly and...oh. There is. I too fondly remember their slow hand-clapping of Blair.

They were at the first Million Women Rise I went two a couple of years ago, they had a stall to highlight their anti-DV campaign, and were giving out cake. :)

two? "to" I mean.

Do they all do those lovely calendars?

I'm not getting my kit off for a calendar :o

I've had an email from them saying that I can go to three meetings as a guest to see if I like it.

I'm quite excited - will report back

ooh, LadyBiscuit, I was thinking of going to mine too.

Do it, do it! We can compare notes. I live by the sea so there is a very large contingent of elderly people here. Am expecting I will be the 'youth' of the group. Which is quite exciting considering I'm 46 :o

You are made for it SSM, with your Cath Kidston apron etc :o

I live in a very WIish area too (deepest Yorkshire).
My cleaner and I were talking about Nigella the other day and she said 'She's not for people who live round here. Her type of cooking's for people who live where she lives.'
-which was brilliant - ie it wasn't 'her cooking's for rich people' or 'her cooking's not for the likes of me', it was seen in purely geographical terms.

I go to the WI with my MIL. We sit in the back and get the giggles. It's actulaly full of working women, none of whom is a pushover. We are a London branch though.

I've got a Cath Kidston teatowel but no apron

Shit, time for plan B then, I hear they're very strict :o

You could make the tea towel into an apron. Then you tick both CK and thrifty sewing

tbh I think the thrifty sewing will go down better at my local one than Cath Kidston.

Good thinking. Will sew a few ribbons onto the top. I

Maybe make some of your own lace to go round the edges too?

I could do that

maybe make this and take along to show too?

Brilliant Alice :o

I have never finished the Thomas the Tank Engine embroidery I started when my sister was pregnant with my nephew who is now 10 but I reckon I could cope with that

I'm hoping my gardening credentials will stand me in good stead. I'm always happy to discuss propogation