Meetings are held at 2pm on the third Monday of each month at Brinksole House in Kingspit Lane, Petworth, (unless otherwise stated).  All U3A members are invited: anyone who needs a lift please call John Fitch . We aim to have a wide range of topics using the skills of members and those of visiting speakers.

Our December meeting was cancelled due to the ice and snow underfoot: we were delighted that Rosa was able to carry forward her talk on ”Waste Food,”  to our January meeting. The following three monthly meetings were all addressed by our members with our usual eclectic range of subjects and were both enlightening and enjoyable.

Monday 16^th May

 Visit to the Mullard Space Science Laboratory - Holmbury St. Mary - Dorking - Surrey - RH5 6NT The UCL Department of Space and Climate Physics conducts research into Astronomy, Astrophysics, Stellar Physics, Solar Physics, Planetary Science, Space Plasma Physics, Imaging, Space Instrumentation Development, Detector Physics, and Climate Extremes.

Our programme. (I will need to know numbers who intend to come by Friday 29^th April: this will enable MSSL to arrange the number of tour guides. I hope all will partake of the tea and cakes: again the MSSL kitchen need to make arrangements).

Arrive by 2pm.(We will make our own travel arrangements  - share cars etc. (From Brinksole the estimated  journey time is 35minutes  for the 17.3miles)

2pm Arrival followed by a General Talk on MSSL history and research by Dr Alice Breevald

2.30pm talk by Dr Adam Lea on Climate Extremes

3pm tea and cakes (There is a £5 pp charge for this).

3.30pm tour of the lab (divided into groups of about 10)

 4.30pm leave

Monday 20^th June

Carried forward from January when

Rosa presented her delayed “Waste Food”

“ A miscellany”. I will prepare three short pieces on items which I have noted in the scientific press. Currently I am considering (i) blood and blood vessels in dinosaurs; (ii) the plans for the new European weather satellites; (iii) results from CERN.                                                                                                                                                           

I would be very happy to have other members make contributions on these or other topics.

I hope we will also plan the Autumn programme.