Category: General

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This is a special event being arranged by Tunbridge Wells U3A who will welcome applications from interested Pembury U3A members.

The seminar, on the topical subject of space exploration, is being presented by Professor David Southwood, an eminent planetary scientist. Professor Southwood is current chairman of the steering board of the UK Space Agency.

Full details and an application form for places are shown on the flyer attached here 

In these days of rapidly increasing Cyber Crime the presentation made  by Aimee Payne to a group of our members recently proved a valuable aid to helping us protect ourselves when we go online.

Aimee has provided a very useful document which lays out in very clear language what to look out for and how to avoid problems. A copy of this can now be viewed or downloaded using this link Little Book of Scams

Click on the triangle in the image below to view the video of the Pembury U3A painters annual exhibition held this weekend. Our thanks to David Doré for making the video and for giving us permission to stream it here.

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The prize will be awarded at the April monthly meeting.

We are putting on our second painting exhibitio
On Friday 3^rd and Saturday 4^th MAY
At Pembury Baptist Church in Romford Road
From 10am to 5pm each day.
Free tea/coffee and cakes will be served.
Cards will be on sale too.

All the painting groups continue to meet twice a month. We have extended our painting from just watercolour to include pastels, pen and ink, acrylic as well as mixing them up to experiment.

The groups also paint outside in the summer.

Janet Richardson

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