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Photography Monthy Meeting
On March 17th, Carole gave a talk about the acclaimed war photographer and photojournalist Steve McCurry. Born in America he spent many years on the Indian sub-continent photographing war zones. His speciality was to capture the way of life of the people in such...
Walking – February 2026
Long Walk February 4th led by Jeane Richards Ten walkers set at off at 9.30 from The Gate pub in Bryant’s Bottom for a 7.5 mile circular walk. We were very lucky with the weather, mild and sunny compared to the persistent rain we had been getting. From the pub car...
Passports, Assassins, Traitors and Spies
We had a very good turn out for our March monthly meeting at St Mary's Church. Martin Lloyd, our speaker, worked in HM Immigration Service for 24 years so there's very little, if anything, he doesn’t know about the history of the passport, in fact he has written a...
Books and Book Reading – March
Eight of us met to discuss Rosamund Lupton’s book Three Hours. The story is about a siege at a school in Somerset. The siege only lasts for three hours but for those involved this feels like eternity. The book is well planned with no padding. The story is gripping,...
Photography Monthly Meeting
The last Photography meeting turned out to be very successful. Sue A managed to use the projector with a little help from John - thank you. (And has now passed her first technical test 😀).All members took part in the critique of some excellent photos. It made...
Padel – New Group
If you haven't heard of Padel it's a racket game that combines elements of squash and tennis. It's played on a smaller court allowing for skill rather than speed and physicality. The softer court surface is also much kinder on joints and muscles. All in all it's...
Walking – January 2026
Long Walk January 7th led by Libby & Ger James 13 hardy walkers met at the ice rink that was the car park at the rear of Bledlow Lions pub. Despite blue sky and sunshine last night’s rain had settled and frozen on snow and become treacherous. We skidded to the...
The Spanish Guitar and it’s music
Gary Jordan treated us to the history of the Spanish guitar, accompanied by a recital of his beautiful playing. Gary started playing guitar at 17 as a hobby which grew alongside his career as an engineer. In 2014 he became a full time guitarist and guitar teacher,...
Books and Book Reading – January and February
Double feature January and February The January meeting didn’t take place due to bad weather so 8 of us discussed both books at the February meeting. We started with A gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, a New York Times best seller. The story revolves around the...
Photography Monthly Meeting
At the meeting Richard did a very good talk/demonstration on Photographic Exposure, showing us how we should use our cameras to adjust the Exposure.The photos taken in October Autumn Theme were shown for a group critique. This was followed by fun photos taken during...
Barbers to Surgeons – Victorian Medicine
At our January monthly meeting Dr Richard Marks, a freelance Historian, took us through the history of medicine from the Egyptians and Greeks through to the Victorians. While thinking evolved from elements to humours to biology over time our ancestors got quite a lot...
Christmas with Elvis
Our Christmas party rocked with the help of Elvis, or at least the closest we could get. Around 123 of us gathered to celebrate, starting with a glass of Prosecco we were entertained by some of Elvis's hits before enjoying a tasty spread and finishing off with one of...
Photography – Annual Competition
On Tuesday, 16th December, the Group held the annual competition.Our external judge was Brian Ridgley of Amersham Photographic Society.The event was well attended and excellent catering was provided by Sue, Sue and Carole.The judge commended the group on the high...
Walking – December 2025
Long Walk December 3rd led by Libby & Ger James 15 walkers met at the Greyhound pub in Wigginton. We started off in chilly low cloud which luckily was burnt off by a kind sun in a blue sky. The walk meandered around the woods above Tring, to occasionally cross a...
Walking – November 2025
Long Walk November 5th led by Peter West We met in the car park of the Dashwood Roadhouse in Piddington to begin our 6½ mile walk. Thankfully, the weather was fine after earlier predictions of rain on the day and mild for the time of year. Passing through the...
Books and Book Reading – The Sea by John Banville
Seven of us met to discuss The Sea by John Banville. We thought that the book was well crafted and that some of the language was quite beautiful. This said, we felt that the author’s decision to pepper the book with words that none of us were familiar resulted in it...
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