Author: Pat Clarke
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Mosaics
Both mosaics groups will be presenting a display of our creations at the General Meeting on Monday, 5th November. We are all very proud of the items we make and would like to show off a little. Some of us are beginners and some have been doing mosaics for a lot longer. Please come and…
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Mosaics Group – Work in Progress
We are a select group of ‘artists’. In fact we are two groups, who enjoy creating mosaics, and doing it together. It takes much longer than painting a picture, but (so far) the end results are fantastic. We celebrated the New Year when a number of us enjoyed a lunch at the Kathmandu restaurant. The…
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160912 Art and History Talks: Double Act
Announcing our 120th Art & History Lecture Monday, 12th September 2016 To mark the start of our 8th season of talks, your two group co-leaders will be doing a ‘double-act’ on the day. Having drawn straws, Cheda will begin with ‘Strange London Histories’ and will be putting a slant on certain moments and on…
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Membership Renewals 2016 – Final Reminder
You now have only one opportunity to renew your membership for 2016 at the discounted rate of 5 euros per person. Monday, 7th March 2016 at the Annual General Meeting in Teulada. Renewal desks will be open from 9:30 a.m. and will close promptly at 10:30 a.m. If you were a member in 2015 and…
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Renewing UK Passports
by Margaret Roberts Having successfully renewed my own Passport several years ago through Madrid, when Don’s needed doing, I downloaded the forms, had the application countersigned and the photo endorsed and sat down at the weekend to gather everything together ready for posting. The first thing I found out is that Madrid stopped doing renewals…
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Animals in War
The ‘Animals in War’ Memorial. Hyde Park, London. by Brian Nicholls. Some of you will perhaps have visited the ‘Animals in War’ memorial in Hyde Park. It is an outstanding design and quite different from the classical ‘sculpture on a plinth’ concept with which we are so familiar. By chance I happened to play a…