Free Online Creative Classes For Older People
If you are looking for something fun and creative to do to help dispel the boredom of those dull winter days, we’ve got just the thing for you! Arts organisation...
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Step by Step Drawing 2022
Thursdays @ 2pm. Starts 20 January to 10 February This course is a four-week programme based around building skills in pencil drawing through studying the natural world around us. The theme for each...
Creative Writing 2022
Wednesday @ 6pm : 12 January – 30 March 2022 If you’ve ever dreamed about picking up a pen and writing a great novel or composing some poetic verse, or...
Entertainment
Five of the best new crime novels to read this autumn (and one golden oldie)
As the nights draw in and we spend more time indoors, autumn can be a good time to get stuck into the literary world’s latest murder mysteries. And the last...
Shrek at 20: celebrating the film’s unique brand of animated anarchy and sardonic irreverence
While Pixar’s groundbreaking Toy Story often achieves plaudits for the shot in the arm it gave Hollywood animation in the mid-1990s, it’s impossible to ignore the influence of DreamWorks’ 2001...
Hobbies and Interests
Five ways to help your dog live a longer, healthier life
As anyone who has ever lived with a dog will know, it often feels like we don’t get enough time with our furry friends. Most dogs only live around ten...
Five ways to use your garden to support your wellbeing
COVID-19 has shown that pandemics can seriously affect people’s physical and mental health. Stress, anxiety and depression have increased around the world, with the greatest effects for those living under...
Grey's Anatomy
Hiking isn’t just good for your body – it’s good for your mind too
Before COVID-19, the popularity of hiking was on a downward slope in both adults and children. But its popularity has spiked during the pandemic, seeing many more people taking to...
How to help someone you live with who has depression
The coronavirus pandemic has brought significant changes to our daily lives, with restrictions on free movement, imposed lockdowns and social distancing. Many of these measures will have taken a toll...
Travel
Antipodean Adventure Pt.2
Our intrepid explorer Margaret Patten continues her adventures Down Under. When you have a four week holiday, it seems endless at the start. Then, having spent three wonderful weeks exploring...
Five tourist trips in England inspired by classic novels
Some books can really bring to life the place in which they’re set. Their words knit together in such a way that whole landscapes or entire floorplans of buildings you’ve...