Weekenders

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The Weekenders January Newsletter was sent out at the end of December. 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.

Sadly, our Weekender Ruth Houldsworth, died on 30th November; her funeral & memorial service was held on 19th December which many of us attended; we shall miss her at our Broomhill Birthday lunches.

We had a lovely Christmas Lunch at The Broomhill on December 16th.

Members were welcomed to Coffee Club on 31st for all those who were not preparing for New Year’s Eve.

We didn’t have an outing this month as we were all so busy with other Christmas activities but we plan an outing to the January Sales and a Film Afternoon social in January; we also will be celebrating Birthday Lunches at The Broomhill for Sandra Green and Doreen Newton.

Lunch Group

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The Christmas Lunch on 21st December, 2022 at the Albert Hall Osbourne Room was the best event of our Lunch Group year. The staff always go out of their way to be very helpful; the room is excellently decorated and the food and service is wonderful.

We were hoping to kick off 2023 on January 25th when we planned to dine at Arunothai Thai Restaurant. Unfortunately, they do not now open on a weekday lunch time, so we have changed the venue to Miller & Carter at Papplewick on Wednesday, 25th January at 12 noon. Unfortunately, their special lunch menu may not be available until February but I will circulate the main menu to those who have their names down already to see what they would like. More details later.

Fun with Languages

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By the time you read this it should be 2023! I hope you have all enjoyed a healthy, peaceful, enjoyable Christmas time. In our group we managed a lovely meal out at Moda, after much perseveramce on Liz’s part as we had booked Bella Mia, then they went bust!!

Thank you Liz for all your support for the group, and thank you too to all members who turn up for our meetings. We shall continue with Spanish for a while, as everyone wants to know how our drama is going to work out!!

Our last meeting in December continued this story plus a Xmas crossword and some lovely nibbles we shared together. I hope to see you at our next meeting on Thursday 12th January at 10.30 at John Godber centre in the Byron Suite.

Happy New Year, Liz Attenborough & Ann Murray.

Science

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Our final meeting of 2022 was on the Friday 16th December.
Bob McEwen led a group colour blindness test.
Most people with colour vision deficiency have difficulty distinguishing between shades of red, yellow and green. This is known as “red-green” colour vision deficiency. It’s a common problem that affects around 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women. Almost in line with the national average 2 males in our group were shown to have this deficiency.

Bob explained how it is inherited through family genetics. Red-green colour blindness is a sex-linked trait and therefore encoded on the X chromosome. Because women have two X 🙁 XX) and can overcome the handicap of one, men have only one (XY) and are therefore more often affected.


Terry Hill then gave a brief update on the completion of NASA’s Artemis I mission — splashdown was in the Pacific Ocean last Sunday afternoon — this has set up the return of humanity to the Moon and is paving the way onwards to Mars.

The 2nd half of the meeting was a fun science based Christmas themed quiz hosted by the question setters and quiz masters David and Christine Vincent.

The time spent on the preparation of the interactive quiz with its audio and visual effects was much appreciated by the quizzers and we extend our thanks to David and Christine.

Next Meeting: Friday January 20th, 2023 at 10am at the John Godber Centre

David Rose

Wine Appreciation Group

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For our Christmas murder mystery party this year we accepted invitations to visit Trimming Mansion in the picturesque village of Marsh Mallow. Off-duty Inspector Chris Mass was convinced it was one of us ‘wot-dun-it’ and we spent an evening assisting his enquiries whilst enjoying a selection of wines and food.

The murderer nearly got away with it, as none of us thought Phil Stockings had the motive but justice prevailed and the Inspector ‘cuffed’ him.