Dragonflies!

Wednesday, 6th June 2012 – Dr Phil Smith, a well known local naturalist and Adviser to the Sefton Coast Project, is also the author of “The Sands of Time (Revisited) – An Introduction to the Sand Dunes of the Sefton Coast”. His talk on Wednesday, however, was all about Dragonflies (and Damselflies) at Home and Abroad and was illustrated with a superb selection of stunning photographs. While some species are declining, others have arrived from the European continent and are spreading further northwards, quite rapidly in some cases.

Visit to Bletchley Park

The planned trip to Bletchley Park, home of the British code-breaking effort during WWII, and the subject of an extremely interesting monthly talk about the German “Enigma” machine by Dr Mark Baldwin in May 2011, is now full.

The visit will include a guided tour of the park and buildings, entry to the Colossus and Tunny galleries and to the National Museum of Computing, situated inside Bletchley Park.

There are also many items of wartime memorabilia, a wartime mini cinema and an outstanding Churchill collection.

The visit is from Tuesday 19th to Thursday 21st June, and to make the trip even more interesting we are calling in at Oxford on the way down, and Cambridge on the way back. The visit, including 2 nights’ dinner, bed and breakfast, and lunch at Bletchley Park, will cost £179, plus a supplement of £40 for anyone wanting a single room.

Further details of things to see in Oxford and in Cambridge will be sent out to those booked on the visit in the weeks to come.