Fiona, the Gosport u3a Group Leader had asked if I would go to the Climate Change group presentation this morning, and let me know what I thought of it.
I didn’t count the number of people there, but I’d say 10-15. Guests had been invited as the group had a lady in from Gosport StreetScene who was going to be talking to us about new services that were going to be introduced next year.
This is around the disposal of food waste. All households will be getting two new bins; a small caddy where daily food waste is deposited in the house (or flat) which in turn are emptied daily in to a larger food caddy, which is collected weekly, alongside whichever (normal or recycling) bin is being emptied, the important thing is that the bins will be emptied weekly.
The audience asked a lot of questions, and it very quickly became clear that Gosport Borough Council’s recycling policy is not clear. Frustratingly so. I have that piece to write up.
This evening, I was on Week 8 of the astronomy course, this week it was about stellar evolution, and to really understand it and get benefit from it, you really need to have a little unnderstanding of how stars work. That was one aspect, where Steve, the tutor could very easily have lost the audience, but he was very good, and held it all together.
The weather was another bit ofa let down – cloudy skies, so this week was ruled out as a potential observing session. Looks like we will be going into week 11.
