Photogroup Meeting 21st January 2026

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Only 3 people attended the meeting with both Pam and Mike Liberson absent. The theme was ‘What I See’. The standard of all the submitted photographs were very high with a wide range of subjects for such a wide-ranging theme from stunning wildlife to well-composed landscapes. The best picture was awarded to Ann Hawke’s ‘Tiger chasing prey’. It was agreed to attach two photographs from each person to the updated Photography Group’s web page.

Tiger chasing prey (Samba Deer) – unsuccessful – Ann Hawke

John Hawke gave a laptop slide show presentation of a November 2025 bird watching trip to The Gambia giving a feeling of warmth to an, otherwise, miserable rainy day. This was a heavy cull from approximately 800 photographs. It was interesting to note Anjie Sargeant’s comments relating to her sightings of some of the birds when visiting South Africa – relevant to the Hawkes’ impending tour next month!

The February theme will be ‘One Colour, Four Photographs’.

Reading Group 1 – Books read during 2025

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Jan-25 Huma Queresha How we met
Feb-25 Levinson Wood Walking the Americas
Mar-25 Elizabeth Gaskell Ruth
Apr-25 Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor
May-25 John Grisham Camino Island
Jun-25 Sebastian Foulkes The Seventh Son
Jul-25 Fern Britton The Good Servant
Aug-25 Grace Dent Hungry
Sep-25 Sangherra Sathnat The Boy with the Top Knot
Oct-25 Lionel Shriver Should we stay or should we go
Nov-25 F Scott-Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Dec-25 Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea

Questers Tour of Fleet Air Arm Museum : 25 February 2026

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Questers Highlights Tour of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton at 10:30, on the 25th of February 2026.

This is a self-drive visit.

A guided tour is only available for groups of 12 or more but is at a cost of £22.00 which is a special Group rate for concessions (over 65 yo). The arrangement would allow up to a maximum of 20 in total as two guides have been scheduled.

The tour takes approximately 11/2 hours, and will feature:-

  • An introductory talk on Concord, aspects of the joint venture with the French, including its engines, and access via a staircase at the cockpit end and a walk down the inside to an exit stairway.
  • For those that have not been inside a Concord but are used to modern wide-bodied jets this is an interesting experience. This is a pre-production plane and has the instrumentation used during test flights.
  • This is followed by a general tour showing the planes used during WW1, WW2 and years after the wars.
  • Helicopters both assigned to ships and Air Sea Rescue.
  • At the end of the Tour you will be free to visit any other areas not covered by the guided tour.

As this is a self-drive trip, if you need a lift please indicate in your response and I will endeavour to arrange with other members attending.

There is a café on site.

Entrance is by the external stairs to level 1, however if required access can be at ground level by prior arrangement to accommodate wheelchairs. There is a lift inside.

If you wish to come on this trip, please advise ASAP. No money should be paid just now, further details for payment will be advised later.

Any questions please contact Colin Ramsden at wessexfcs@aol.com or 07821 884043.

Colin