A report on the talk on 'A solo walk across Africa'. You can download the MP3 file by right clicking on  this link. Read more

 This month's guest speaker was Fran Sandham, who presented ‘A Solo Walk Across Africa’.   He began with a question he’d been asked a number of times before – why walk solo across Africa?  The idea came about when he was at a New Years Eve party, and was thinking about how he would spend the following… Read more

A report on the talk about 'Insectageddon'. You can download the MP3 file by right clicking on this Read more

‘Insectageddon’ - or ‘where have all the insects gone?’ was the theme of Dr Chris Hassall, an Associate Professor of Animal Biology at the University of Leeds. In his introduction, Chris said that we all have some sort of knowledge and experience about insects, either as a hobby, or recognising the habits of the ones… Read more

A report on the talk about 'The Sun and the Northern Lights'. You can download the MP3 file by right clicking on this link. Read more

Martin Lunn spoke about ‘The Sun and the Northern Lights’. He told us that the unofficial ‘Capital of the Northern Lights’ is Trondheim, in Norway, and the best view of the lights is from above the arctic circle. This means that the lights seen in Britain are a fraction of the splendour and experience much… Read more

A report on the talk about 'Chef to the Royal Household'. You can download and save the MP3 file by right clicking on this link. Read more

This meeting featured a talk by Colin Alderson, entitled “Chef to the Royal Household”. Our speaker began his talk with details of his early life; he was born near Thirsk, now North Yorkshire – the village where the real ‘James Herriot’ ran his veterinary practice. Colin’s father was a sheep farmer, and the family lived… Read more