Soroptomists

As a female Mayor of Newbury, I am automatically an honourary member of the local branch of the Soroptomists, and for the first time last Thursday I was able to go along to one of their bi-monthly meetings.

Since the Desmoulin Gallery closed in October, they have been without a home for their meetings, so I went along to the home of one of the members, and our host gave an illustrated talk about her career as a forensic scientist. With the popularity of many TV shows involving the skills of forensic scientists, and the famous trials such as that of OJ Simpson, this proved an interesting topic to hear about at first hand. I was impressed at the turn out of members - there were about 20 of us there - just as well it was a large living room!