Buffy, a celebrated actress with many film and TV performances to her name, probably best known as Jolene in The Archers (who remembers the shower scene!!) came to talk to us for the evening. What a great speaker she is. We heard all about her life in Canada, where...
Book Club September 2021 This month we read Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker. Set in post-war America, this is the true story of the Galvin family and their twelve children (ten boys and two girls), six of whom develop schizophrenia. From diaries and extensive...
For our very first face to face meeting Sarah Slater from Hampton Court visited us to talk to us about….. Kirtles, Corsets and Curtains. It was just great to really see Sarah & to see all our friends after so long, Sarah talked about her journey into...
In August, we read A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry. Set in the 1870s, this is the story of Winona, a Native American orphaned in the American Civil War and adopted by two soldiers. Growing up with them on a farm in Tennessee, she is educated and loved and...
This month a full turnout discussed Capital by John Lanchester. The story focuses on Pepys Road, an imaginary street in South London of late Victorian houses built for the lower middle classes but now only affordable by the very rich. By including residents and those...
Our first face to face get together of this year was just fabulous. We had a social on Barnes Green, near Barnes Pond. There was so much news to catch up on and, best of all, was just seeing people for real – not on a Zoom. Congratulations and thanks to...
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