Art and Craft – A friend who is an expert knitter tells me that this is her place for learning new skills: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/verypinkknits<\/p>\n
Health and Leisure – the RHS have a whole series of gardening videos here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RoyalHorticulturalSo<\/p>\n
History – A whole series of lectures (I particularly enjoyed ‘What Did The Romans Ever Do For Us’) from the British Museum are available here: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/t44sm6y<\/p>\n
Languages – a blog by an American living in France with her French husband. She gives you a new word, then shows how it can be used. Make sure to read the entry on ‘\u00e9pargner’: https:\/\/french-word-a-day.typepad.com\/<\/p>\n
Literacy – just in case you haven’t already heard it, there is a real life mystery podcast broadcast by the BBC, entitled Death In Ice Valley, here: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p06242qb<\/p>\n
Mind Games – this website has a list of what they consider the best card games. There are plenty I had never heard of, and they also have recommendations on board games. https:\/\/www.shutupandsitdown.com\/tag\/card-games-that-dont-suck\/ You can also play card and some other games online here: https:\/\/cardgames.io\/<\/p>\n
Music – the Raven, a local folk club (Bear and Billet, Lower Bridge St) have starting having virtual folk clubs at 8:30 on Sunday evenings. Mostly excellent musicians, but amateurs at using video, they improve each week. You can see the last two weeks worth (more will be added as they are done; if you are talented musically you can send them one of yourself (it doesn’t need to be folk, they are very broad-minded) here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuw9wQwmwbNX_XT7CRRjxfQ<\/p>\n
Science and Nature – Biomimicry, the way we can imitate nature to solve real world problems, is a fascinating topic, and was just about to be the subject of a U3A Royal Institute lecture: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vy2gOq6nTJY&t=1s<\/p>\n
Last, but not least, there is an excellent and informative talk about Coronavirus here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JGTtGCq9grE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Art and Craft – A friend who is an expert knitter tells me that this is her place for learning new skills: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/verypinkknits Health and Leisure – the RHS have a whole series of gardening videos here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RoyalHorticulturalSo History – … Continue reading