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Quarterly Newsletter Purbeck U3A Dorset Page 2 Newsletter Editor: John Hale Email: newsletter@purbecku3a.org.uk Chairman: Julie Seidel Vice-Chairman: John Hale Business Secretary: Ann Churchill Treasurer: Patrick Webb Membership Secretary: Clive Bacon Committee Members: Jim McGivern; Norma Foster Sue Sides Views expressed in published articles and correspondence are those of the contributors alone and are not necessarily the official views of Purbeck U3A (Committee contact details on last page) From the Editor… RNHF Yeovilton - Forthcoming Visit One of our Members, Jim Humberstone, is a volunteer with the Royal Navy Historic Flight at the Royal Naval Air Station at Yeovilton, Somerset. The Flight welcomes small parties of visitors to their HQ and Hangar on the airfield. The Flight operates several historic aircraft including two Hawker Sea Furies and two examples of the legendary Fairey Swordfish. Their most recent acquisition is the spectacular De Havilland DH Sea Vixen. A visit by U3A Members can be arranged. The Flight Manager has suggested she can accommodate between 12 and 15 visitors. All names will need to be supplied to obtain security clearance, also the registration numbers of cars to be cleared across the airfield. Jim wishes to gauge the extent of interest in a visit to the Flight, so would those Members who are keen to make up the party g ive their names to Jim McGivern who is co-ordinating the event. They should indicate in addition, whether they can contribute trans port for the party. Further details can then follow. Since the year is beginning to draw to a close and the hangar and Flight are likely to be busy, it may not be possible to make the visit before the New Year. Part of the day can beneficially be devoted to a visit to the famous Fleet Air Arm Museum on site. H allo is there anyone out there? Does anyone read – even enjoy reading – the articles and news featured in this, your , Newsletter? I ask as the amount of feedback I have had has diminished to a big fat round zero following the publication of our August issue! So why is this, I ask? Are you all completely happy with the Newsletter or do you all think it is total rubbish so that it is consigned straight to the bin on arrival (for those of you who have opted to receive the printed version) – or perhaps not worth booting up your computer to see in vivid colour? I tried to start a Letters to the Editor section, optimistically taking up a whole page, but the few letters we had have dried up so I have discontinued the page. This I thought would not only be an ideal spot to tell the Editor (me!) what you thought, good or bad, about the Newsletter but, more importantly, to voice your views and opinions about absolutely anything of interest to other Purbeck U3A members. Almost 500 members with no views at all! I can't really believe that King Apathy reigns supreme in Purbeck U3A-or does it? It has been my view, since taking over the Editorship, that the Newsletter should be made available in printed form to any member who cannot view, or is not happy with viewing, it on a computer. Many of you like to have a copy available, to which you can refer instantly to look up dates of group meetings etc., on your coffee table. We discussed this at the last Committee Meeting and, although not all Committee Members totally agree, the consensus was that colour printed copies of improved quality (from an outside printer if the current in-house quality could not be improved) should be made available to all members and obviously, to cut down costs, members in the same household would be able to share. The problem that then comes is one of distribution: Postage is very expensive these days and hand delivery (the previous method) has been considered too onerous on members concerned. Another alternative being considered is for Group Leaders to carry a stock of Newsletters at their Group meetings and you may have seen a Broadcast email sent recently requesting members to state from which Group their hard-copy should be collected. There has been a response to this of only three members to date! More apathy one wonders, or is everyone happy to see the excellent full colour version on their computer? Please let subscribe@purbecku3a.org.uk know your views and delivery requirements. I n this issue, as well as the usual Group News and other topical items, I have managed to include some of the excellent articles written for your interest and enjoyment by members over the summer months. I should like to thank these contributors who have spent time typing up their experiences and supplying photos to accompany their articles, and to apologise for having to ‘hold over’ some articles from the previous packed issue. A Happy Christmas to you all and please make a New Year's Resolution to submit articles and news to me here at newsletter@purbecku3a.org.uk by 15th January for publication in the February issue. Many thanks. John Hale Can you help identify what this is? Do you have any knowledge of Botany? I took this photo in Western Australia on the 29th November 2008 The shrub/plant/tree was growing in the wild on the coastal strip within 250m of the Indian Ocean just above the Tropic of Capricorn. Off shore is the Ningaloo Reef a marine conservation area. I presume it is a fruit or seed pod of some sort. It was about 10 to 12 cm across in size. I looked in the local library while out in Oz but could not find anything like it in the reference books. Colin Barber
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