The Fruit & Vegetable Gardening group are keeping gardening diaries during the current social distancing. They plan to combine the diaries and circulate them around the group virtually on 2nd April, which would have been the next scheduled meeting date. Happy to share their diaries with interested members, just contact me. Should make interesting reading. […]
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Coronavirus – Detection and Prevention
Virus Detection: The simplest way to distinguish Coronavirus from a Common Cold is that the COVID-19 infection does not cause a cold nose or cough with cold, but it does create a dry and rough cough. The virus is typically first installed in the throat causing inflammation and a feeling of dryness. This symptom can […]
Exploring German group celebrate a successful season
Our Autumn meetings ended with a showing of Orson Welles’s celebrated film, The Third Man (1947). Our Winter series will end similarly with a film, Bride of the Wind (2002), based on the high-profile life of the bewitchingly gifted Alma Mahler, wife to, successively, Gustav Mahler (composer), Walter Gropius (Bauhaus architect) and Franz Werfel (novelist). […]
Tales from the Magistrates’ Court – a talk by Ted Sherrell
February’s speaker needed no introduction. He has lived in our area for decades and has commented publicly on many matters. Today however Ted was wearing his magistrate’s hat. He came to talk about his time as a lay magistrate. He was made up in 1981 and served as a magistrate until 2011, continuing after Okehampton […]
Calligraphers to participate in Mayflower 400 Exhibition
Last week the Plymouth Calligraphers, of which I am a member, held an exhibition in Plymstock library of their work on the theme of Mayflower 400. It’ll be on view again in The Prysten House in Plymouth from September 9th-16th when it will be included in the main city exhibition. On Monday, part of the […]
Eating Out Group get stuck in the mud!
The Ship Inn at Noss Mayo was the venue for the Groups Eating Out venue in February. 18 members enjoyed a very convivial lunch, amidst the pub’s nautical surroundings, and selected their lunch choices from a menu that suited all tastes. From the good humour and noise, the lunch was thoroughly enjoyed by all. We […]