Histon and Impington Women’s Institute welcome David Page who will talk about ‘Some of the things the Romans put on their coins’.
Currently being held via Zoom. Non-Members if you would like to attend this meeting please email Sophie Howson on https://www.sophie.howson@googlemail.com for the zoom link and joining information.
Sophie Howson 07740 422500
Denise Brading 01223 232442
Normal venue would be Histon Methodist Church Hall when rules allow. Visitors and non-members welcome.
Histon and Impington Women’s Institute welcome Yvonne Murray who will talk about the ‘Life of a Councillor’ followed by a cookery demonstration with Bena Forster.
Currently being held via Zoom. Non-Members if you would like to attend this meeting please email Sophie Howson on https://www.sophie.howson@googlemail.com for the zoom link and joining information.
Sophie Howson 07740 422500
Denise Brading 01223 232442
Normal venue would be Histon Methodist Church Hall when rules allow. Visitors and non-members welcome.
The next Village Society Zoom talk will be by Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin on The Edwardians and their houses: The New Life of Old England on Tuesday 25th May 2021, 7.30pm – 8.30pm
Tim will discuss the beauty and the varied style of Edwardian domestic architecture, which was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative, and provided new building types for weekends, sport and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes to historic architecture, health and science. He demonstrates how the leading circle of the Liberal Party, who built incessantly and at every scale, influenced the pattern of building across England. He will provide an insight into the building literature of the period, from Country Life to the mass-production picture books for builders, tracing the links between these houses and suburbs on the one hand, and the literature and other creative forms of the period of the other.
The talks are free to all members and membership of H&I Village Society is currently free. So please contact them to register as a new member. Zoom links for the talks will be sent to members directly.
Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin is an architect and architectural historian who is presently teaching in the Department of Architecture at The University of Cambridge. After more than a decade working in Britain and abroad on both historic buildings and masterplanning, he returned to Cambridge in 2000 to research the buildings of A.W.N. Pugin and the domestic architecture of early Victorian England.
His first book, The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century, was published in 2008 and in 2020 he published his latest book The Edwardians and their Houses. This is the first radical appraisal of the subject for over 40 years. He is a member of Historic England’s national Advisory Committee and is published widely on houses and churches, including critiques in the Architectural Review, Architecture Today and many other magazines and journals.
Anytime during May run, walk, cycle or hop your way for 5k and raise money for local charity Internet Watch Foundation and support its work moving images and videos of child sexual abuse from the Internet.
Brought to you by the creators of the 5k lockdown challenge ‘Run for Heroes’, you just participate in 5k (any way you like) between 1st – 31st May and donate £5 or more to the Internet Watch Foundation.
You can enter individually or as a team. Once you’ve raised £5 you’ll receive a goodie bag.
For more information on the IWF: http://donate@iwf.org.uk
For more information on ‘Run for Heroes’ 5K May: https://runforheroes.org.uk/5k-may/
Dr Giles Yeo, Principle Research Associate at the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit Cambridge, President of British Dietetic Association, author of ‘Gene Eating’, TV and radio presenter will talk on “Is obesity a choice?” at 7pm Thursday 13 May on Zoom.
Being overweight is often stigmatised as being due to poor diet and a lazy lifestyle. Yet our genes determine a large part of our make up, including body shape. Some of us can’t seem to lose weight no matter what we eat, while others can. Why?
Type 2 Diabetes in mainly coupled to excess weight in the wrong place. Giles’ talk will explore our shape, ability to manage or loose weight and why we are genetically programmed to follow the “see food” diet (if I see food I eat it!).
Giles is both an expert and very entertaining speaker and has appeared on the BBC’s ‘Horizon’ and ‘Trust me I’m a doctor’ series.
Everyone is welcome, if you don’t get the HI Diabetes group emails contact Mike at mike@hidiabetes.co.uk for a meeting link with your name please!
The next live HIAG zoom talk will take place at 7.30pm on Monday 17th May, entitled ‘The New Geography of Ancient Cambridgeshire’ with Kasia Gdaniec, Senior Archaeologist (Development), Cambridgeshire County Council.
This talk is free. HIAG members will be sent a link 3 days in advance, non-members can register for the link here.
Histon Baptist Church will be hosting outdoors ‘Storyteller Storyteller’ theatre for all the family from ‘Story Pocket Theatre’ organised by Cambridgeshire Libraries as part of its ‘The Library Presents’ programme. Histon Baptist Church, 2 Poplar Road, Histon CB24 9LN.
Saturday 3rd July performances at 2pm and 4pm. Tickets between £3 – £5. For more information visit: https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/asset-library/the-library-presents-south-cambridgeshire-brochure-april-2021.pdf
Opportunity Playgroup is holding a Cake Stall on Histon Green on Saturday 22nd May from 8.30am.
Concert recorded for the Impington Music society by regular IMS performers Hayley and Gordon Ogilvie. A programme of piano duets by Brahms and Dvorak. It will be shown on YouTube at 7.30pm Friday 30th April. Just visit: https://youtu.be/2OObKH1OQYE
If you have a gmail email address or a google account, then you will also be able to join the discussion during the Premiere. It is hoped the video will be available for a week or so after for viewing.
If you have any questions, please email: impingtonmusicsoc@gmail.com.
Kawaii Kubs will have a Construction site at The Royal British legion on 23rd May.
Earn your apprenticeship as a budding builder on the Kawaii Construction site! Practice your truck driving skills around our cones, play a cone hoop toss game, practice using your tool set and play the hammer smash activity! Then you will have time to explore your own play tray Kawaii Construction site!
Kawaii Kubs are a baby and pre school activity group who offer sensory, messy play activities, crafting, games, a photo corner, bubbles and a bop!
There are a number of different sessions throughout the day
| 9:45 – 10:30am | Toddling & walking up to 5yrs |
| 11:00 – 11:45am | Toddling & walking up to 5yrs |
| 1:00 – 1:45pm | Babies (sitting to toddling) |
| 2:30 – 3:15pm | Toddling & walking up to 5yrs |
| 3:45 – 4:30pm | Toddling & walking up to 5yrs |
Tickets must be purchased in advance at kawaiikubs.co.uk/booking.html