The octopus is an amazing and intelligent animal. It does all things we do but it got there first, by about 400 million years. So, we both do the same things but in totally different ways.
Photographers like to have a ‘project’ to concentrate the mind, at least for a period of time. In 2022 mine was an attempt to capture a ‘good’ image in every county in England, which sounds straightforward, but what is a county and what constitutes a ‘good’ image? Spoiler alert: the challenge was completed, but how were these definitions settled, how was the project completed and what were the results.
Bill talk will cover postal scams, telephone fraud and of course internet fraud particularly and there are a couple of prizes to be won at the end.
Bill has worked in cyber-crime roles for 15 years and is currently the Community Relationship Manager for the Home Instead charity.
A talk on how, it was not only camouflage that was developed to make the enemy think what you wanted them to think. From the Trojan Horse to the massed pipe bands of the Scottish Regiments to Operation Mincemeat. All is not what it seems!
The astonishing tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one of the world’s most extraordinary safe blowers and unlikely war hero.
Johnny Ramensky, a career criminal who used his safe-cracking abilities as a commando during World War II.
Food security is a major problem for the people who live in dust bowl, central Tanzania, where most live below the UN poverty index of $2 income per day.
Andrew’s presentation explores the food security challenges and then explains DCT’s innovative, low-cost Conservation Agriculture approaches which have doubled average harvest yields.
This follows a visit by Alistair to the Camp near Sagan in Poland in March 2019 to commemorate the Great Escape in March 1944. It covers life in the camp and how the prisoners occupied themselves. Alistair’s father took part in the Great escape in March 1944 and he was no. 182 coming out of the tunnel H-Harry.
Tibet is a world of sky burials, sacred mountains and lakes, oxygen deprivation and brain scans.
Travel along the Northern Route. A harsh, remote untouched landscape, outside time, across a plateau the size of western Europe with panoramic landscapes appearing like watercolours, the ice-cold wind rendering the streams and rivers frozen on their banks.
A place of serenity, ancient monuments and monasteries, smoking butter lamps, wrathful deities, prostrating monks in maroon robes, mixed with the hypnotic sound of deep horns preceded by nomads following ancestral routes and flocks of yaks herded across this landscape of dreams.
Journey over the Himalayas into the valley to the citadel of Piyang, a Tibetan Buddhist Temple and Monastic complex dating back to the 10th – 11th century, set on a mountain honeycombed with thousands of caves and dwellings.
There were several missions to sabotage German efforts to develop atomic weapons during the second world war, by targeting heavy water production at a hydro-electric plant in Norway.
These missions significantly delayed Nazi Germany’s atomic program and contributed to the Allied victory. Richard’s talk tells the true story (not the fictionalised version shown in the 1965 film of the same name).