February
EVENT NEWS AND COURSES
February 3, 10, 17, 24
Scottish Country Dancing is cancelled for the moment due to the lockdown. We normally meet every Wednesday evening from 7.30 to 9.30 pm at Hatch Beauchamp village hall. If you would like to join us in the future please contact Anita on 01460 929383 or email anitaandjim22@gmail.com for more information.
Hawkchurch Film Nights
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, our screening for 8th February is cancelled, with planned screenings for 8th March and 12th April on hold, pending a review of the situation in mid-Feb. We hope to resume as soon as conditions permit. Best wishes to all our patrons.
February 9
Bridport History Society, Zoom meeting. Mayflower 400 - Who were the Pilgrim Fathers? Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard, My Mayflower Ancestors, Donna Heys. Meeting opens at 2.00 and the talks start at 2.30. If you would like more information please contact Jane on 01308 425710 or email: jferentzi@aol.com
February 13
Darning and Visible Mending for Knitted Items for Beginners Online 2pm – 4:30pm. Cost £12. Why throw away your favourite clothes that need repairing? Join this workshop and learn a new skill. Contact the tutor to book a place and for a materials list ( a kit can be posted for a small fee) gina.youens@btinternet.com The West Dorset Group of the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society are hosting a Zoom meeting on behalf of the Society. Janet Few will be talking about ‘Sons of the Soil: Researching Agricultural Ancestors’. Meeting opens at 1.30 and the talk starts at 2.00. If you would like more information please contact Jane on 01308 425710 or email: jferentzi@aol.com
February 23
Bridport and District u3a presents a talk by John West, The making of the West Bay Discovery Centre, online via Zoom. 2pm. Bridport and District u3a is an organisation for people who want to undertake learning for its own sake, with like minded people, in a social setting. There is no minimum age, but you should be no longer in, or seeking,
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full time employment or raising a family. Since March 2020 most of our face-to-face activities have been moved online, and over 20 new online groups have also started. We continue to run our full programme of scheduled monthly talks, currently using Zoom. Please visit our website for specific details and contact information www.bridportu3a. org.uk, email newsletter@bridportu3a.org.uk or call 07775 692162.
February 25
Wildlife Gardening, a talk on Zoom by local garden designer, Muff Dudgeon. 6:45pm. Cost £3.50. Discover how to encourage wildlife into your garden. Please visit our website https://axminsterheritage.org/ or Facebook page for more information on how to book a place.
Beaminster Museum
Museum staff have expressed regret that their initial hope of re-opening in April is no longer viable. Despite the builders completing on time, due to lockdown, volunteers are not yet able to move onto the next stages of cleaning up and preparing to re-instate exhibitions. Further information will be announced in time.
Honiton U3A
Despite the ever-changing lockdown restrictions, Honiton’s successful U3A has remained active, with its 220 members rising to the challenge of running activities in these difficult times. Like many organisations, much of U3A’s work has temporarily moved online. Monthly meetings that members have enjoyed at the Beehive have been replaced for now with Zoom meetings. In October, Stewart Raine gave an illustrated talk on how we used to travel. Stewart said of his talk: “The generation born just before and during the Second World War and those ‘baby boomers’ born after it in the 1940s, were the last to grow up in an age when travel by motor car was not the norm. Many cities had trams and trolleybuses in the 1950s and even into the 1960s, and if we went to London we went by train.” In November, the prominent historian Todd Gray gave a talk on mob violence in Exeter. Todd was recently featured in the edition of Britain’s Most Historic Towns on Channel 4 filmed in Plymouth. December’s monthly meeting was an online Christmas social, featuring songs, stories, poems and a quiz.
