Category: Monthly Meeting
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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…
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Cornucopia of Creativity in Kenton!
On Wednesday 22 November 2023 we had our Creative Activities session featuring short works by our our Creative Authors and artworks by our Watercolour Group. The art was of a very high standard, and exhibited on one side of our meeting room. As you can see below, we have a group where all levels are…
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Judicial Dilemma is Properly Judged
Our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 25 October 2023 was packed to capacity and ‘appeared’ before a former Immigration and Asylum Appeals Court judge, Dr Jonathan Lewis. With a local background before moving up to Downing College Cambridge, and then to a firm of solicitors in the City of London, Dr Lewis then served as a…
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What Gives Behind the Movie Camera?
Our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 27 September 2023 featured speaker Judy Karbritz, ably supported by her husband Alan Karbritz. Judy is the Harrow Community Poet, and is a regular contributor to the Harrow Times and the Barnet Borough Times. She has contributed to local radio stations and has lectured on cruise ships, as well as…