Andrew Shorthouse

Sally was subtly introduced by Jacko, who professed not to know one end of a paintbrush from the other, yet somehow seemed fully aware of Picasso during his “Blazer Period”. No-one else knew this until he rolled up his trouser legs to expose Picasso’s “Sock Period”! Sally is an art graduate who actively avoided and … Read more

We had a fantastic talk about international communications from the speaker’s own perspective as a technical programme manager for a major multinational company which is responsible for large proportion of global internet traffic. Rob heads the company’s data centre internationally. After Tapton school and a degree from Salford University, he worked for BT Global Services, … Read more

David showed us some nice holiday slides, but they needed context and an accompanying map to show us the location of the places visited. Nor was there any mention of the Rohingya troubles. I have therefore consulted the excellent DK Eyewitness Travel book on Myanmar to fill in some gaps, and particularly to correct some … Read more

  Ann’s interest is Victorian local history and she was sourced via UC3A. She runs her own education business, specialising in training materials design, open learning advice and distance coaching and mentoring. For this talk she needed no IT aids (probably fortunate as the microphone packed up). She gave a beautifully prepared talk, delivered clearly … Read more