Our February was a delicious event – taste tourism. We had all chosen one of a random selection of countries (from a dish full of slips of paper) with the idea that we’d bring an item of food or drink from that country and an interesting snippet of information about it.

We had blinis from Russia, popcorn from the US, both Finnish and Swedish liquorice, Turkish sour cherry juice and rose petal jam on traditional bread, chocolate treats from a range of countries, interesting green jellies (I really should have written down what they were), spiced chickpeas with dukkah from Egypt, Danish pastries, a lovely tricolour Italian selection of cheese, tomatoes and olives – and lots of lively discussion.

We also discussed the forthcoming change of membership rules and what, if anything, we can do to support WI in fighting the changes imposed on us.