Our Chinese friends have gone awayAnd have shut their well-used take-away.It’s not for long- just a few daysTo celebrate New Year in Chinese ways. They work so hard in their...

Sometimes you feel downhearted now you cannot do a lot.In a busy world around you, you’re the one that time forgot. Then the ‘phone’s sharp ring awakens youTo a world...

WOKINGHAM’s day centre for the elderly is appealing for volunteers to come forward. Based on Reading Road, WADE is looking for new members for its Friends of WADE fundraising committee....

THE British Modern Military History Society (BMMHS) is to hold another afternoon virtual meeting next week. Taking place from 2pm on Tuesday, March 2, Bill Steadman will focus on The...

Lockdown babyWho’s that baby?It’s your granddaughter, your nieceOr maybe a mythI’ve seen no babyCould they really exist?Maybe they wait at homeFeeling really aloneIt takes a village to raise a baby...

Earlier this month, the club held a further online photo competition on the theme of A Winter Scene. Congratulations to Inge Salter who won first place for her shot of...

A BUMPER number of meetings are planned by a group that helps people in Wokingham who have learning disabilities. CLASP will continue to hold virtual events from 10am to noon...

Reading Geological Society continues with its programme of lectures, despite the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These are delivered by Zoom, that magic software that allows us to welcome...

The February meeting of Wargrave Local History Society was held on-line using Zoom. Kevin Little, formerly the proprietor of Frost’s – the fishmonger in Reading’s Union Street – gave a...

The Hardy Plant Society exists to stimulate interest in growing hardy herbaceous plants. It was formed in 1957, and provides information about familiar and less well-known perennials, how to grow...