Another very well attended & pretty noisy meeting!

This month, the white heat of technology burned brightly in Hampton when Kit, Jacqui & Chris initiated us into the secret (to most of us anyway) world of social media! It’s all so much easier when somebody who knows their stuff shows you & explains it all to you! Now we can hold our heads up in front of our grandchildren!

We had several laptops set up & some people brought their ipads & tablets, so there was no shortage of equipment. And no shortage of interest from our members & friends either. We looked at our own website & Jacqui explained what we could find on it how to make the most of it, then we watched presentations about some of the better known sites including Facebook, Twitter & Pinterest. We even purely by chance, came across our WI neighbours at Teddington tweeting to each other while we watched! Couldn’t have organised it better!

As usual, we had our raffle & we would like to thank Pauline for organising the refreshments & making some of her lovely cakes for us.

Join us for a fun and interactive evening.  The evening will be a chance for novices and new comers to find out a bit more about social media applications such as Twitter and Facebook, and for those who are already knowledgeable to spread their knowledge among the group.

We will show a demonstration of our own website and how we can all use it as a great resource.  None of us proclaim to be experts but we are sure we can all learn from each other.  Please feel free to bring along your laptops and tablets and any questions or IT issues you have and we will see if somehow we can solve them.

Hampton WI started 2014 with a Quiz Night. Kit, our Vice President, did all the hard work & also ran the evening, as our President, Suriya, couldn’t be with us. Well, she missed a very good evening! Many of our current members attended & we were pleased to welcome 10 visitors, some of whom joined on their first night with us. We would like to extend these hardy souls a very warm welcome and hope they will enjoy our company. Kit set up four-yes-four different quizzes to challenge us & we in our various assorted groups, endeavoured to come up with the answers-or at least sensible answers!

 

 

We also brought along our photos for the Hampton in Winter competition & everybody voted for their favourite-Chrissie came out winner, with her photo of Hatherop Park, a surprisingly little known beauty spot. It was a difficult choice-what a talented bunch we have at Hampton!

 

 

It was a pleasingly casual evening, which had been the intention, giving our members plenty of time to chat. The committee have decided that actually, chatting is what we enjoy most of all! Glenys, our social secretary organised our customary raffle & Pauline one of our keen cake makers, did her usual good job with the refreshments.