This comes with a disclaimer from both the U3A and the AVDC but I have no reason to suspect that it is not entirely genuine – it does sound very interesting for those who, perhaps, have only recently stopped work or have some special skills or interests.
It concerns an organisation called Trading Times that matches the skills & availability of people over 50 with the part-time ad hoc resource requirements of local businesses. It is very new, only opening their doors nationwide on 6th Jan.
What can we say? Much fun seems to be being had by all – shame you were not there!
Amid many interesting things on the WT History Society’s web page is an interesting selection of old postcards of … Weston Turville! They are to be found at www.wthsoc.org.uk/gallery/postcards and … Read more
The good folk at Which? magazine have published this useful page on spotting and dealing with ransomware. It is all described on this page. Also note the additional links at … Read more
I was going to wish you all a Happy New Year but it seems so long ago that I have forgotten all about it! January is also running out so I thought I would tell you about February instead… Did you know that Candlemas is celebrated on 2nd February? This is because it is based on an ancient festival which celebrates the midpoint of winter: it being halfway between the shortest day and the spring equinox. There is evidently some weather lore which surrounds this day which states that if the weather is good we have bad weather ahead for February and March and if it is bad
This is a re
minder to residents in Aylesbury Vale to be on their guard to a telephone/bank card scam that is now spreading across the country. The scam is as follows:-
The victim receives an unsolicited telephone call from the fraudsters claiming to be their bank (or in some cases the police), stating that their systems have spotted a fraudulent payment on their card or