Tour of Winchester Cathedral Monday 10th Feb 2025

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We are planning a visit to Winchester Cathedral at 11:00 am on 10/02/25

(https://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/welcome/ ).

  • This will be a self-drive trip for up to 20 people.
  • The Cathedral address is ( 9 The Close, Winchester Hampshire, SO23 9LS, United Kingdom)
  • There are a number of car parks options for parking:
  1. Winchester Park & Ride (https://www.winchester.gov.uk/parking/park-and-ride/)
  2. Park in Central Winchester (https://www.winchester.gov.uk/parking/parking-and-car-parks)

It will be a “guided tour” of the Cathedral and will include the Cloister and Crypt if it is not flooded.

The cost will be £11.00 each for a maximum of 20 people. The trip is wheelchair friendly but there are steps and is likely to take an hour.

There is no organised lunch for this trip, Winchester has many eating places and members are free to make their own arrangements.

If you wish to come on this trip, please advise me soonest by emailing me on kevin.barter2@ntlworld.com. As the trip is restricted to 20 persons it will be on a first come, first served basis. No money should be paid just now but I will send the successful applicants details of how to pay by BACS.

If you have any questions on this trip, please contact Kevin Barter at kevin.barter2@ntlworld.com or 07974 111551

WALKERS OUT IN SNOW FLURRIES

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Carole and Mike led  14 of us on a 5 mile walk from the Royal Oak in Charlton this morning. Light drizzle and some snow flurries for most of the way. Temperature around 3°C but ended with a good lunch in a warm pub. Good way to spend the morning.

Photography Group November Meeting

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The Group met at 10:15 a.m. on 11th November with the theme ‘Creature Feature’.

Only 4 people attended, Rosemary Crumplin sent her apologies for not attending.

With such a small number, a unanimous vote for best picture was given to Pam Liberson’s ‘Snail Close Up’ – the snail was held in her hand to get the picture. One of John Hawke’s pictures was of a large spider in his bath – the high definition of the hairs on its legs exposed Anjie Sargeant’s arachnophobia!

Snail Close Up – Pam Liberson (taken on Mobile Phone)

December’s Theme is ‘Quirky’ – a theme suggested by Rosemary Franklin (who may not attend the next meeting due to ongoing health problems). There was an intensive discussion about what could be considered as quirky – at one point Anjie Sargeant used a dictionary (did not help!)

Both Pam and Mike Liberson were having difficulties with Windows 11 after upgrading from Windows 10.

The first problem was not recognising photographs held on a USB stick – solved by using File Explorer: Highlight the USB Drive (E:/) and drag on to the desktop or right click on the folder and use copy and paste – the problem here is that Windows 11 has an abbreviated listing so one has to click on ‘More Options’ to reveal the Copy and Paste functions. One can use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V shortcuts which takes out these extra steps.

John Hawke also showed how to assign default apps for specific file types by going into ‘Settings/Apps/Default Apps’ and scrolling down to ‘Choose defaults by File Type’. He showed the examples of setting default apps for .jpeg and .tif files – by double clicking/opening the file it will be automatically loaded into the preferred photo app.

Pam Liberson was able to print e-mail attachments but could not print photographs. Investigation showed that her laptop had two default printers – one for direct connection and one for wifi – both the same printer! The wifi printer had a notification that the driver was not valid. Using Device Manager and updating the driver did not resolve the issue. No solution was found on the day.