Author: Trevor
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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…