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Quiz Night Come join us for a fun quiz night at The Weston Colville Reading Room. From 7:30pm. Teams of up to 5. Nominal contribution of £2 per person on the door. Range of topics will be covered.

We enjoyed this film immensely – its humour, its landscape and award-winning performances, and it was felt we should show the sister film, Mnon des Sources, which we will do – on Wednesday 2 May.

The fresh – and dry – air was welcome for our New Year’s Day walk, though the mud less so. We walked to West Wickham and back, covering about 5 miles. The table back at the Reading Room was groaning with leftovers to share from the night before. As always, the warmth of the Reading Room and the chat was as good as the walk itself. Walking on New Year’s day ha become a bit of a tradition here now, this being our third year, and it seems a good day to do it – it’s a bank holiday and good to work off possible excesses of the night before. If you’d like to join us, our next walk will be Saturday 3rd March at 10am. Meet at the Reading Room, BYO lunch, and maybe something to share.

A short talk on Bee Keeping at the Weston Colville Reading Room by Andrew Durham. All welcome and refreshments available.

All around the Reading Room on 3 June were clothes and books, and we raised £150 for local charities Our Special Friends and Little Miracles. Many thanks to all of those who donated items, to those who came and bought things, and to you especially if you did both! We had a steady trickle of people through the day and it was good to chat with friends and meet new people.

We had an audience from 8 to 80 for this one. John took us through his life with this planet which began in 1967 and has grown stronger with every spacecraft mission sending back stunning images. He is the Director of the Jupiter Group in the British Astronomy Association and the perfect person to tell us about the geology and atmospheric movements that make up the ever-changing view he has through his telescope. He’s retired from his work as a molecular biologist and now devotes his time to this faraway planet, 11 times the size of earth. We now know about its four moons and their erupting volcanoes, about what happens when a comet crashes into its surface – and we now know how lucky we are to have such an interesting and accomplished person in our midst.