Our opinions valued

A group of members from Stonehouse WI and three from Brimscombe and Thrupp WI came into the house on Friday morning to offer their opinions about some of Marks and Spencer food packaging. I joined them, with Eco-team leader Lisa from Tutshill WI
and Vice Chairman Margaret as well as Noelle from NFWI in London.

To begin with, the answers were none too difficult - of course, we prefer packaging to be minimal, recycled and reused where possible. But Helene and Lucy, M & S marketing and packaging specialists, had tougher questions for us when they threw freshness and labelling requirements into the equation. We hope our answers were useful to their team and look forward to seeing changes - maybe as a result of our contributions!

We finished the morning with a delicious lunch courtesy of Marks and Spencer and said our goodbyes in the torrential rain which had fallen throughout the morning.

We hope that Lucy and Helene arrived home safely, in spite of rail cancellations from Gloucester, and that Noelle's journey did not come to an abrupt end at Swindon. Severe weather conditions meant that getting home proved more of a challenge than we expected but hopefully we were all ahead of the worst.