Entrance 2010

13th January 2010
It is already 13 days into 2010 before I have wished you a Happy New Year but everything WI related which I planned to attend has so far been cancelled because of snow.It was lovely to enjoy a white Christmas but now it is above a joke! If any of you logged on yesterday and was amazed to find an unexplained photo of a gate on my blog, here is the reason for its appearance.The intention of this blog was to report on WI events and the life of a WI member so I thought while I was cooped in and not really doing anything related to WI, I would edit or reorganise my blog. Instead of a portrait of myself which is usual on blogs, I would insert a logo of some sort. Easier said than done.When I finally saw my photo had made it on to the blog (albeit in the wrong place), the euphoria was so intense I had to go and lie down in a darkened room.
What I wanted to intimate was that the WI opened doors and gates to all sorts of different activities and interests. If the NFWI can do away with the WI Tree, I could have something symbolic for my logo. Anyway, I like doors and gates. In another life when I was teaching information skills to schoolchildren, I once set Doors and Gates as a topic. You should have seen what they came up with! Wrought iron gates, doors on cabin cruisers and the mechanics behind rising hinges---it was great fun for all concerned.Lights are a good topic too but I'm way off course now...
For the moment or perhaps the year, the photo will stay where it is but I hope you get the idea.
What did you think of the new Bucks Green Letter? I think the editorial team probably went a bit over the top on the use of colour but it is a great temptation when one finds one can do something to try to do everything to show one can! The photos didn't print up all that well but it is up to us to provide good clear material to be included. It is still a tool to help the WI committees to be efficient and this is successfully achieved plus a bit of information on what has happened recently within the Federation which is interesting.I always like telling members about the good events which they have missed in order to encourage them to make sure they sign up for the next opportunity.Please remember to vote for the resolution on the form in the WI Life and get it to your WI Secretary even if your meeting has been cancelled. It is the first time every member has had a vote at this stage of the proceedings and I fear the weather will have a detrimental effect on the number of votes used.
The new national logo was mentioned on New Years Day in the media which was good publicity but of course it was reported that this was to get away from the Jam and Jerusalem image of the WI.Was our tree representative of Jam and Jerusalem? I failed to make that connection all these years. They could have been using a gate like me with the addition of a bramble branch perhaps.
How about a New Year's Resolution to comment on this blog to stop me running off at a tangent.