Dear All,
I am writing to advise you that following the increasing
reports of the spread of the coronavirus your Committee has reluctantly decided to
end the winter talks early. We have cancelled the two remaining indoor meetings
– this coming Tuesday, 10th March, and on 24th March. The
AGM will be pushed back into the Autumn programme.
Have we overreacted? Who knows? Only time will tell and hindsight
will be the judge. Taking the welfare of our members into consideration I think
we will have done the right thing in the long run. I hope that you will agree
that this is a wise and sensible course of action.
Certainly our regular field meetings will go ahead as
planned throughout the Spring and Summer and I hope you will enjoy as many as
possible, although it is recommended that participants bring their own biscuits
and don’t share the use of optics such as telescopes.
Hopefully by the time our next programme of talks begins on
22nd September, with Mike Read’s excellent presentation “Hampshire – Nature in Trust”, this
difficult situation will be over.
Keep well and best wishes
Julia
(Chairman)