Author: Trevor
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What a buzz!
Forgive the pun, but Trevor Moore’s excellent talk on beekeeping created quite a buzz among our members! In the three years since he took up the hobby, Trevor has become an expert on keeping bees and about bees themselves. We were treated to a superb explanation of how to make honey, we sampled two different…
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Soprano & Lute
We very much enjoyed the recent performance of a wide range of Elizabethan Music by well-known local musician Chris Susans playing the lute, and also accompanying Wendy Nieper, a soprano who has sung for film sessions, jazz, opera/classical, and rock and pop, and recorded with some of the rock greats. And it was a great privilege…
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Potty Plotters at The Palace!
Potty Plotters at The Palace! Elaine and Julia will tell you, truthfully, that they just had tea at the Palace! But it was The Palace Community Centre here in Ibstock, not, sadly, the bigger one in London! But never mind, these Potty Plotters brought right royal entertainment to our Group! With subjects ranging from big…
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Ringtons
A visit by Raymond of Ringtons is always very popular, and this week was no exception. As usual, Raymond brought a good selection of Ringtons’ delicious goodies and sales were brisk!Ringtons history goes back to 1907 when the founder, Samuel Smith OBE, began selling tea from a horse and cart in Newcastle upon Tyne. Fast…
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Blood bikers!
Leicester & Rutland Blood Bikers Colin and Jim came give us a talk about their work, and what work they do! They belong to one of 25 Blood Bike groups which cover between them most of the UK population. As a totally volunteer-based charity, they support local health organisations in the Leicestershire and Rutland as…
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Music Quiz!
Feet were tapping tapping and arms were waving when Janet presented her Music Quiz! Janet played snatches of music from each decade from the 1930s to the 1990s, and we were challenged to name that tune, name the singer or singers – everyone from Vera Lynn to Wham! and all styles inbetween – or to…
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Food aplenty! And shopping, too!
Food aplenty… and shopping, too! Armstrong Mills at Shepshed might not look as plush a department store from the outside as, say, Marks & Spencer’s – but the food was hot, and it was plentiful, and it was cooked so well I’d be happy to go back there anytime! And then, when lunch was over,…
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Trevor Jordan
This isn’t an actual photograph of me sitting at my computer, it was generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). I described to the AI program what I was doing, which was spending long hours at my computer creating this website along with Sue and Janet, I must say that it’s a pretty accurate representation! So was…
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A day at the Priory
A Day at The Priory A day at Ulverscroft Priory is always popular with our members. Arriving at 1030 we are greeted with a welcome cup of tea or coffee – and a biscuit! – and then we can walk round the park, feed the deer, or just simply sit in the comfortable common room…
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Sing-along-a-ukelele!
Sing-along-a-ukelele! Or to be more precise, sing-along-four ukuleles and a double bass! The group, Three Men and Others, entertained us with their music and the singing, and even got us join in with home-made percussion and even singing! All their music was well-known songs from the past, some serious, but most very funny – even…
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Scrapbooking!
Papercrafty!! Sageena Thakur and her daughter Jasmin are papercrafters, and this week they came to show us how to craft scrapbooks. This was not simply cutting and pasting memorabilia into a plain scrapbook, it was creating pages with captions, and other embellishments, to make each page come alive. And Sageena explained powerfully with examples from…