Christmas WiRE

My partner Antonella is a member of the WiRE (Women in Rural Enterprise) networking organisation. WiRE is the only organisation offering support to businesswomen in rural areas although the term rural does seem to include towns

On Tuesday this week the West Suffolk WiRE network held its Christmas Bazaar at the lovely The Grange Hotel in Thurston near Bury St Edmunds and Antonella was exhibiting to showcase her boudoir and portraiture services. As the weather wasn't looking too promising we left loads of time to travel to the hotel but it turned out to be an easy journey and we arrived rather early. This did offer us the time for a nice relaxed lunch, the menu was one of those that made it very difficult to make a choice as it all sounded so wonderful, in the end we both went for a club sandwich which was a great choice as it turned out to be the best club sandwich either of us had ever had.

After lunch we set up Antonella's stand and had a good look around at the stands of the other exhibitors which included every variety of craft from jewellery to handbags & from painting to artisan soft drinks. Everything you could want to get your Christmas shopping off to a flying start including a boudoir photo shoot for your loved one by Antonella

Antonella together with another local business woman, Maureen Chadwick of Painted Tree bespoke furniture has set-up an East of Norfolk WiRE network which will be holding its 1st meeting in February 2010 in the Great Yarmouth area. So I'm sure you'll be reading more about that over at Antonella's blog in the coming weeks