Message from our Chair

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I trust you have all now fully recovered from your Christmas and New Year’s celebration.
Quite a lot of coughs and bad chests doing the rounds at the moment, please ensure you wrap up warm both indoors and outdoors. The increased energy costs are not helping people’s heath at the moment, what with the many ‘cold snaps’ we are experiencing. Thankfully covid, although still present, seems to be on the wane, helped by both the jabs and natural immunity. As I have said, please try and keep warm.

A few of us went to the Chinese New Year Celebration meal at the Springwater Cantonese Restaurant in Calverton, organised by Terry Hardman of Sutton u3a for the Notts Network. It was a very good evening and the ‘eat as much as you want ‘ menu proved very popular. Ordering five selections from the menu for the table at a time, after a couple of rounds of starters and mains, we soon had to loosen our belts.

We were then entertained by a traditional Chinese dragon/lion dance with music accompaniment which had everyone reaching for their cameras. The evening ended with an outdoor firework display with all the normal oohhs and aahhs.

Well organised Terry, if repeated next year, I would strongly recommend it to you.

Our next monthly meeting will be a week later than normal on the third Wednesday of the month – Wednesday 15th February, 2023.
This later meeting is due to the John Godber Centre holding CAMRA’s Hucknall Beer and Cider Festival on 10th to the 12th of February and having to set up the main hall during the week beforehand. Again, this is a good event, well worth visiting as I am sure our Real Ale Group are aware.

After our successful individuals fund raising for Hucknall’s Food Bank (£320 plus much food) several folks have asked if they can still bring food to the monthly meeting, please do and we will make sure that it is delivered to the food bank.

As always, please book in at the desk on arrival and as importantly for Health and Safety, ensure you sign yourselves out if leaving early. Please try and wear your name badges and turn off or silence your mobiles during the meeting.

I have been asked by a couple of our members to relay a thanks to the organisers of the Singalong Group for a very enjoyable Tuesday meeting in January, well done Phil & Liz.

Look forward as always to meeting you all at February’s meeting.

Melvyn Francis, Chair

February Scams

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Parcel Redelivery
The Parcel Redelivery scam has reappeared. You receive an email from either a delivery company, often called IPS, impersonating UPS, but also the post office, both appear to be genuine, stating that your parcel or package couldn’t be delivered and therefore there is a very modest charge, often £2.99p to cover the cost of the redelivery.

The email asks that you click on the link, which then asks for your bank details to enable payment of the charge. Obviously once these are given, then any amount can be taken out of your bank account.

ALWAYS BEWARE, CRIMINALS LURK EVERYWHERE.

Pub Quiz

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Many thanks to Pam Farrell for being the Quizmaster in my absence due to an appointment I couldn’t change. There were 27 members attending. She did an excellent job especially as the tie breakers were very important in deciding the winning team.

The February Pub Quiz will be on the second Monday, 13th February, at 12 noon at The Nabb Inn. All are welcome – we prefer a maximum of four to a team where possible as we can always add another person to a team if you would like to attend but haven’t got a team of your own.

And here are the answers to the January quiz:
1. How many legs did ‘The Famous Five’ have between them? 12
2. Which black bearded captain is Tintin’s friend? Haddock
3. Which actress played Cleopatra when Rex Harrison played Julias Caesar? Elizabeth Taylor
4. What is the surname of the Welsh footballer who was sold to Real Madrid in the summer of 2013 for a record €100 million? Gareth Bale
5. Who sits on The Wool Sack in the UK’s House of Lords? Lord Chancellor
6. Which Richard played Chris Kringle in the 1994 remake of ‘A miracle on 34th St’? Attenborough
7. The nuclear reactor at Sellafield is in which UK county? Cumbria
8. What is the highest mountain in Africa? Killamanjaro
9. Who painted the ‘Mona Lisa’? Leonardo da Vinci
10. Which US city has a baseball team called ‘The Braves’? Atlanta
11. From which city does radio DJ Alan Partridge come from? Norwich
12. Louise Brown, born in 1978, was the first ever what? Test tube baby
13. Disneyland Paris was known as what when it first opened? EuroDisney
14. Who was the last English monarch to die in battle? Richard III
15. In what year did Red Rum win its first Grand National? 1973
In which COUNTRY would you find the following famous landmarks
16 The Acropolis Greece
17.Potala Palace Tibet (will accept China)
18 The Petronas twin towers Malaysia
19 Brandenburg Gate Germany
20 Angel Falls Venezuela
21 Statue of Christ the Redeemer Brazil
22 Belvedere Palace Austria
23 Angkor Wat Cambodia
24 Konark Sun Temple (aka The Black Pagoda) India
25 Petra Jordan

And here is your February quiz.
1. Cinnamon comes from which part of the tree?
2. A White Lady cocktail consists of which main alcoholic ingredient?
3. Brassica Rapa is the Latin name for which vegetable?
4. In Japan, what type of drink is “Matcha”?
5. What flavour is the liqueur “Triple Sec”?
6. What is another term for “Vitamin C”?
7. Plantain is the cooking variety of which fruit?
8. Macaws, long-tailed colourful parrots, consist of how many species?
9. Traditionally, Mozzarella cheese was made from which animal’s milk?
10. Sharing its name with a percussion instrument, which relative of the antelope, native to Africa, has white vertical stripes on its body?
11. The French clothing company “Lacoste” features which type of animal in its logo?
12. The Roadrunner is a member of which bird family?
13. The world’s largest frog and beetle are both named after which biblical character?
14. How many stars feature on the flag of New Zealand?
15. What is the most fractured human bone?
16. What is the most famous university of Paris?
17. Which animal is on the golden Flemish flag?
18. What is the name of the Indian holy river?
19. What is the Kabbalah?
20. What is the meaning of the Arab word Habibi?
21. What does the abbreviation GPS mean?
22. What is the most spoken language in the world?
23. What does the abbreviation SMS mean?
24. What is another word for wall painting or mural?

Weekenders

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The Weekenders February Newsletter was sent out to its members at the end of January. Once again, many thanks to Margaret Whilde & Lindsay Smith for printing off copies for those members not on email and for delivering them on their morning walks.

We had Broomhil Birthday Lunches for Sandra Green and Doreen Newton, which we all enjoyed. We had an excellent outing this month to Boundary Mills & Whitby’s Fish Restaurant on 16th January and a Social Film Afternoon (Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris) at Siobhan Lee’s on 20th January. Coffee Club met again on 29th January.

We are planning an outing on February 6th – we needed to book somewhere indoors so decided on Dobbies at Chesterfield. We have a Broomhill Birthday Lunch planned for Christine Wheatley on 17th February. Finally our Coffee Club will meet on Saturday, 26th February 2-4 pm at Sandra’s – topic suggestion – “My Favourite Valentine”- when hopefully members might spill the beans on old boyfriends!

Lunch Group

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Our first lunch of the year was on 25th January and was at an old favourite – The Broomhill on the Welbeck Estate – where the food is always good and a reasonable price.

On February 22nd we shall go to Miller & Carter at Papplewick. We will order on the day as their special lunch menu will not be available until February 20th.

Then on 22nd March we will be visiting The Red Lion at Bagthorpe.