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We’ve been to fungi meetings at Firestone Copse,Borthwood Copse and Parkhurst Forest recently and we’ve put together an album on Flickr of some of our finds. Most are labelled.To bring up the names, hold the mouse on the left hand side of the image. Dave and Hazel Trevan &

Don’t forget the talk ‘Living in Orkney’ at 10am at St. Lawrence Village Hall.

No archaeology meeting this week as several of us will join the ‘Looking at the Countryside’ walk at Alverstone. Meet at Sandown Railway Station at 10am.  See main programme for details.

Geophysics at Knighton. See previous week for details.

Boundary walk at Wellow. Meet at 10am at car park next to Horse and Groom at Ningwood. The car park is on the Newport side of the pub behind a hedge where there are council recycling bins.  There we will share cars to drive to the Alpaca Farm where parking is limited.

This activity cancelled.  see separate post for plan B. Geofiz at Knighton, both Mag and Res.  10am start, morning only.  Directions in previous post. Plan B if weather is unsuitable is boundary walk at Thorley. Details to follow.

23 members met on a glorious autumn morning near Gatcombe church, for a circular walk south to Sheat, and then back across to New Barn, and the road through Gatcombe village.   We began at the church, enjoying the medieval and Pre-Raphaelite glass, the “crusader” effigy, some of the c

2015 is the 350th anniversary of the most iconic book about microscopy; written by a man born on the Isle of Wight. Spaces are still available for a celebratory meeting to be held at the Medina Valley Centre – see ‘The Society/Forthcoming Meetings’ on this site and b

Geophysics (Mag and Res) at Knighton.  10am start, stay all day if you can. For directions see last week’s post. If bad weather causes cancellation I will put a message on this page between 8am – 8.30.