Simply Social

  Simply Social members enjoyed a Spooky evening at the delightful  Manor House in Hemingford Grey.  Wonderful story teller, Robert Lloyd Parry presented two ghost stories from M R James books – The Ash Tree and Oh Whistle and I’ll come to you.  Sitting in this candlelight ancient house we were enthralled, and very glad [...]

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Members of Cambridge University have won some 83 Nobel Prizes over the years. On our tour we visited the Cavendish Laboratory site where most of these people worked and made their discoveries. We found out more about some of these people, Newton, Rutherford, Darwin, Crick and Watson. It was Crick and Watson who had that [...]

Despite living in Cambridge for many years it always amazes me how much I don’t know about the city centre and that there are numerous historic buildings that I have yet to visit. For this reason our Simply Social tour of city centre Churches was most enjoyable and enlightening.
Starting at the Michael House Centre we [...]

We continued our Simply Social tour of the galleries of the Fitzwilliam Museum buy visiting the Dutch Collection. Our wonderfully informative guide Maureen Street introduced us to the gallery by first explaining the historical importance of the collection. The Founder’s collection of paintings began with the Dutch and Flemish pictures he inherited [...]

Although several Simply Social members has signed up to attend a singing workshop, most of them were a  little apprehensive and hoped that they would be able to melt into the background on the day. Could singing actually be fun many of them wondered? 
We met at Centre at St Paul’s, in Hills Road, where [...]

On Saturday the Simply Social book club held a New Year lunch party.  Each member of the group was asked to bring along something to read that had inspired them for some reason.  Ruth organised some delicious food from Meze who service wonderful Turkish food at their restaurant at 196 Mill Road.
 
Literary wise [...]

Simply Social held it’s first, social evening on Wednesday at The Snug in Lensfield Road, Cambridge.  Fourteen of us chatted over a variety of drinks and had a great evening.  We also discussed the idea of holding our own Frock Exchange style event for members to swap clothes and raise some money for local charity [...]

Simply Social had a very enlightening workshop last Friday.  Mark Newey from Winning Minds a modular based therapy centre in Saffron Walden came along to talk to us about mind mapping.  As he explained our minds filter out massive amounts of information, and what is left is then filtered through several processes’s, some of which [...]

A group of us took part in a half day cookery class with Teresa Bestard Perello from Spanish Taste 4U.�  Teresa is a 3rd generation Majorcan cook, cooking delicious, authentic and unique food.