General Meeting: January 2025 The speaker was Pam Farquhar who spoke to us about military working dogs, past and present. Pam explained that her background was as a nurse, both with the NHS and the Army, but what brought her to this interest was when her daughter became an ‘explosion dog handler’ who used 30 Read more

General Meeting: November 2024 We finalised 2024 with our Christmas Social event on Thursday December 19th, it was a fun morning with a good attendance. Thanks must be extended to all those that played a part in making the event successful. Deidre Williamson began by reading two short Christmas poems that beautifully set the scene Read more

General Meeting: November 2024 Dave Brookes is a Derbyshire man, an ex-copper and one half of The Woolly Tellers, who with his colleague Mick Whysall perform story telling around the East Midlands. Our talk was a potted version of a true story known as the Saville Murders which took place in Nottingham in 1844 and Read more

General Meeting: October 2024 The speaker was Reverend Alan Haydock. At first glance you may imagine our speaker had just stepped off stage from an Agatha Christie novel, or the Cluedo character “Rev Haydock in the billiard room with the spanner”! The reverend Alan Haydock, aka Rural Dean, Rector, Canon, Vicar and other titles, delivered Read more

General Meeting: September 2024 The Speaker was Peter Slater who was a sports reporter on BBC Radio in Ipswich and Newcastle upon Tyne as well as BBC East Midlands and retired in 2012. His book Don’t you know who I am? relates his experiences throughout his career. He had a range of anecdotes as well Read more

General Meeting: August 2024 Helen Barrow is a hearing loss management consultant and the only qualified tutor for Lip Reading in Nottinghamshire. She has had lifelong hearing loss and her talk on the role of lip reading was informative and entertaining. It was particularly relevant to an audience of retired people given that 50% of Read more