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Welcome to the WI member blog pages.* Here you will find a number of blog entries written exclusively for the WI website by a handful of WI members. Scroll down for a short biography on each member followed by their blog entries. Click on each entry to be taken to the full blog post.

ANGIE ASPINALL
Angie is a freelance photographer and journalist and, alongside her husband, owns Aspinall Ink.  She loves to travel - and to write about her travels – whether they are within the glorious county of Yorkshire, or further afield.  She writes reviews and travelogues for various websites and blogs.  Angie’s also a foodie and food photographer. As well as photographing food and writing food reviews, she loves foraging for wild food, growing food, cooking, dining out, pouring over cookery books – all things foodie!  In 2011, Angie and her husband started an allotment and also became the happy owners of two pet chickens.
Angie Aspinall
Angie joined the young, cheeky, Tea & Tarts WI in Huddersfield in 2011 – part way through its inaugural year.  She is now one of the Marketing Officers on the committee and is also the official Tea & Tarts WI photographer.  (All photos in her blog entries are the copyright of Aspinall Ink.)
Aspinall Ink's website is: www.aspinallink.co.uk and their blog is: http://aspinallinkblog.wordpress.com.  You can also follow Angie on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Aspinall_Ink.  Tea & Tarts’ website: http://www.teaandtarts.ukpeople.com/

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COLLEEN BOWEN
Colleen Bowen with the Tiger who came to tea
Colleen has been a member of East End WI in London for over three years, and is the one drinking tea on the left of the photograph. She is enjoying a gap year - or three - after spending most her career as a Civil Servant. 

As well as guest blogging for the NFWI, she manages the blog for East End WI http://eastendwi.blogspot.com/.

She also has her own blog about trying to live a country life in the middle of London http://www.rusinurbis.com/.

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JULIE KIRBY
Julie Kirby
Julie is married with 2 teenage sons and lives with her family in a small village in rural Oxfordshire. She likes to call herself a free-range mum! Julie has an allotment and chickens, and bakes and processes all that her family grows. She also sews and is involved in craft –  collecting vintage dressmaking patterns and old needlecraft books.
Julie is a volunteer in her community, which means as well as being found on fete stalls and helping at other events around the village, she is the secretary of her village WI.When she has a spare moment she loves to get out with the camera, or find a shady spot under a garden tree to read and drink tea. Julie has her own blog at http://www.fiddlesticks.uk.net.

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LUCY ROGERS
Lucy Rogers, Yarmouth WI, in an astronaut suit
Lucy has a PhD in bubbles (fluid dynamics), is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and the author "It's ONLY Rocket Science, an introduction in Plain English". She is passionate about space and astronomy. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.
She is also a freelance science writer and has written for, amongst others, the BBC, the Guardian and Discovery News.  After finally coming to the realisation of "If not me, who?" this year she successfully completed the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program and now knows a lot about exponential technologies and global problems - and is working on how to save the world from Space Debris. She is also a member of Yarmouth IW Women's Institute.

Her websites are www.lucyrogers.com and www.spacedebrisresearch.com.

Follow Lucy on twitter: www.twitter.com/DrLucyRogers

KATHY SHAND
Kathy Shand portrait
I have been a member of the WI for just over 18 months and really enjoy the meetings.  Being a new girl I still have a lot to learn.  I have a varied background with lots of interests and a full diary.  You  could say I am a Jill of All Trades and I like to think I am adaptable rather than feckless!
First I was a Home Economics teacher and freelance food writer and then re-trained in business and IT.  I have worked in IT training and the health service in various roles and now I work at home – mostly in the garden – and I volunteer for the National Trust and at a local horticultural College .  I am passionate about cooking so growing fruit and vegetables is very important to me.  I have been married to Doc, a GP, for 33 years and when the smalls became large, we took on Springfield as a project.  We have refurbished the house but it is the garden which has stolen our hearts.  It is a Work in Progress.  My motto:  If your arms, legs and brain still work – use them every day.  So that’s what I do, often pushing a wheelbarrow and pondering on what to write about in my blog!  
 
Kathy's blog: www.springfieldgarden.blogspot.com.
See Kathy’s column on page 20, WI Life March 2012, Issue 42 Previous blog entries...

 

*Disclaimer - This area of the NFWI website and the pages therein are reserved for WI member weblogs. The opinions expressed in these pages represent those of individual WI members and not those of the NFWI.