June 14th 11am was our first online social event!
We had interest from 18 members with 11 members attending at the peak from Cornwall to Aberdeen and Liverpool to South East England and a few in between. A modest but comfortable start to an event we hope will increase in popularity as word gets around.
A couple of people did have some difficulties connecting and we will get in touch to see if we can resolve those for future meetings.
Past roles included managing North Sea oil platforms and meeting again a maintenance technician from the same platform over 40 years later. Engineering, Marketing, IT and Refinery personnel were also represented.
A few retirement interests included kayaking, 17ft steam boats, model railways, touring by motor bike and volunteering as signalman and station master on heritage steam railways. Fencing (the sport…), and touring in mobile homes. Some were fully engaged with the community being local councilors and chairs on the committees of various charitable and local bodies.
There was even advice about dating at the age of 90 having lost their life partner!
An item of common interest was the cost of insurance for travel (rather high) and motor cars with NFU Mutual being regarded as a helpful and economic provider, unless you live in certain areas of Suffolk!
Together with offers of assistance to people at home, with suitable DBS clearance, there were other interesting suggestions that the Committee will take up with the company and consider in future.
All in all it was a productive and pleasant couple of hours and it was agreed to hold another in early Autumn.
If you are interested look out for our email with information about that nearer the time.
In that respect we are aware of our emails going to spam folders despite using all the advice to avoid this. To help avoid this do please add our email address to your contacts to minimise this problem. the address can be found in any recent email from CUKPA.
If you haven’t used Zoom before or had some issues installing it we have some help pages under the Resources section, we recommend the videos, and we are happy to assist if you send a message via our contact form. If you have any teenagers or grandchildren in the family I am sure they will be helpful, too!
Until next time.