Our last presentation for 2024 will be on Nov 26th.
We will take a look at the history and chemistry of gemstones.
All are welcome, no free samples though !
We will restart on Jan 8th 2025, topics to be announced
Have a great Christmas and New year
More and more news of late regarding scams, particularly on-line. For those who missed the excellent presentation on ‘computer fraud’ there is a booklet published by the North West Regional Crime Unit that’s freely available and on line. Click link below:
Its full of useful information regarding scams, avoiding them and how to deal with them. The download is in PDF form. If you have issues with reading it then please contact the Digital Help Desk folk on the website.
New financial fraud rules become active on Monday 7th October.
You might also be interested to hear about the new rules
on the BBC ‘money box’ podcast article link here.
Oct 09: ‘Trust me, I’m a Doctor’ with Bob
Oct 23: Space telescopes with John
Nov 13: Top 3 spices
Nov 27: Gemstones
Oct 09: ‘Trust me, I’m a Doctor’ with Bob
Oct 23: Thalidomide – History and science
Nov 13: Top 3 spices – History, chemistry & usage
Nov 27: Gemstones
The Technology and Science group starts the new
season with the following topics:
Sep 11th : White Mountain – The asbestos story
Sep 25th : Chocolate – chemistry and manufacture
Meetings are 2.30 – 4 pm. at Kensington House
We are always looking for presenters and topics so if you have some thing that you feel might be of interest please contact Colin or Phil
Hopefully you all had a nice ‘summer’ break?
The Technology and Science group restarts on Wednesday 11 th September. We have a very loose list of subjects planned including ‘spice chemistry’, Thalidomide, chocolate and Lyme disease.
If you have a subject you would like to present or would like us to look at please contact Colin or Phil
The Table Games group continues to meet for Bridge on Mondays from 10 am.
We will NOT be having a Summer break, so if you fancy a 2 hour session please come along to Kensington House.
In February we looked at the ‘gut biome’. Continuing research, that covers many medical conditions, is finding new ‘connections’ every day.
This article discusses a clear link between alzheimers disease and gut condition.
Here is a link to a Facebook page which may be of interest?
Its a pair of astro photographs, the first of which was taken by Isaac Roberts, a one time dweller in Maghull.
The first in 1888 and the second in 2013
Thanks to everyone that came along to the meeting on Monday.
Have a great summer. See you in the Autumn – we resume 2nd Sep. –Terry