Whilst the club is thriving at the moment, we do have room to be able to welcome new members. If you would like to meet some of our members and find out more about the club in an informal setting, please come along to the coffee morning that we have arranged on Tuesday 15th November…. [Continue Reading]
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September 2022 – Poppyland Comunity Radio
Paul Hensby and Mike Goldwater spoke to us about Poppyland Community Radio. This is an online-only service which started in February this year and is based at The Belfry Centre in Overstrand. Its aim is to combat loneliness and to encourage a sense of community; its programmes include “mardling” (chat) sessions, interviews and a wide… [Continue Reading]
August 2022 – Hocus Pocus!
Club member Terry Robinson spoke to us on “Hocus Probus! A Spell of Magic”. He explained how he had been interested in numbers since a young age and raised the question of whether numbers were originally invented or discovered – a question that he left us to ponder! He pointed out how IT is dependent… [Continue Reading]
July 2022 – Weather Forecasting
Chris Bell (who may be familiar from his TV appearances as a weather forecaster on Look East) spoke to us about meteorology. Chris is one of the directors of Weatherquest (a private weather forecasting company) and he also lectures in meteorology at the UEA. It was fascinating to learn of the many areas of life… [Continue Reading]
May 2022 – At Home with the Tudors
On 3 May, we enjoyed a very humorous talk by Simon Partridge, entitled “At Home with the Tudors”. He pointed out that the Tudor period ran from 1485 to 1603, and in that period most people were either very wealthy or very poor. The very wealthy had large houses but small windows as glass was… [Continue Reading]
April 2022 – Nepal; Now and Next
Steve Scott-Fawcett began by giving us some basic facts about Nepal, e.g. it is about half the size of the UK, with a population also about half the size of ours. Geographically there are three main areas: the high Himalayas close to the northern border, then the central ‘hilly’ area (to us still mountainous!), and… [Continue Reading]