Category: Monthly Meeting
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Fun With Bells Chimes With Members!
Our speakers on Wednesday 23 October 2024 were Sonia Field and Jean Power who had come to talk about Bell Ringing. As well as several models, they had brought a set of eight hand bells tuned to a scale of notes. Sonia and Jean both ring at All Saints Harrow Weald, and are involved with…
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The Rivals to the Beatles Revisited
Our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 25 September 2024 featured a trip down memory lane guided by the knowledgeable and entertaining Martin Orkin, a published author on the subject of the bands in the 1950s, 1960s, and later. Martin started with the origins of the music that turned the page on the ballads and melodies of…
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Citizens Are Getting Well Advised
At our Monthly Meeting on 28 August 2024, our speaker was Ceyda Milne, the Business Manager at Citizens Advice Service Harrow, who explained in detail how the Citizens Advice Service operates and is managed. Her talk was supported with a large number of slides, and covered the history of Citizens Advice Harrow, including the comparatively…
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June & Dick’s Journey Through Japan
Our Monthly Meeting on 24 July 2024 featured the experiences of two of our members travelling through Japan in May 2023. June and Dick (our current Committee Chair) described how they had chosen their holiday, what their goals had been and some of the important differences between the UK and life in Japan. Their journey…
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AGM Runs Smoothly then Summer Social
On Wednesday 26 June 2024, we held our Annual General Meeting with Louise in the chair, making sure that everything ran exactly as planned. There were a few apologies owing to holidays, but in all there was a good turnout for the meeting. The Minutes of the previous AGM were approved and adopted. There were…
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Could You Have Been a Codebreaker?
Our speaker at our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 22 May 2024 was Mike Barbakoff, who opened up the history of the Bletchley Park, the Government Code and Cypher School in World War II – known to some as “Station X”. Mike is a volunteer at Bletchley Park and took us through the difficult period between…
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A Novel Approach to Singing
The Speaker at our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 24 April 2024 was Singer and Song Writer Jill Goldman. Jill is a member at Kenton & District u3a and is launching out into fiction. She gave us a taste of her forthcoming publication. Jill plays the guitar, banjo and ukulele, and specialises in Dinner Jazz material…
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The Skill of a Good Tour Guide
The speaker at our March Monthly Meeting, held on 27 March 2024, was professional tour guide Stephanie Tickner who has the prestigious Blue Badge Guide accreditation. Stephanie started work as a secretary and then tried out being a veterinary nurse, eventually worked as a keeper at London Zoo. She was one of the few women…
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The History of Early Recorded Sound
Our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 24 January 2024 featured a familiar face – Herbie Goldberg – as our speaker. His subject was The History of Recorded Sound. Whilst many people believe that the first recorded sound was Thomas Edison reciting a nursery rhyme about a girl and her little lamb, Herbie was able to correct…
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Winter Social Sells Out Again
On a bright and sharp winter’s day, our Winter Social event on 20 December was completely sold out. The Committee running the event had done a first class job with the food, ensuring there was plenty of food available for all, carefully labelled between Vegetarian, Non-Vegetarian and Gluten free. The bar was open in the…