Sheringham Horticultural Society

Thanks to John Innes for telling me of the exhibition, and thanks for Sheringham Horticultural Society for having the vision to give them the opportunity...

I spent a couple of hours there in Friday morning (a welcome relaxation day from being organizer of a highly successful History Day a Woodrising Church last Sunday).

Not only was the general Centenary Exhibition highly interesting to me, but I was so delighted to see how the children participating in schools visits to the exhibition were being so intrigued, not to say excited by the hands-on demonstrations organised for their benefit - doing hands-on origami of a double helix, and fascinated by the "kitchen demonstration" of DNA separation.

The organisers and demonstrators are really to be congratulated on an exhibition so excellently calculated to interest and encourage young minds in science, and I was delighted, as, no doubt, you were, to see a useful write-up in Saturday's Eastern Daily Press, which must have made quite a few people wish they had gone to see it !!

I, an 84-year-old gold-badge holder and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and founder-Fellow of the Institute of Food Science, was delighted to see such an excellent presentation and introduction to the "mysteries" and enjoyment of science. The stick insects crawling up their sleeves seem to have been particularly intriguing !!

Afterwards I spent the afternoon exploring the beech at West Runton and the beginning of autumn colours of the trees at Sheringham Park, getting home after my journey feeling not just tired but exhilarated with my days expedition.

Thank you all so much.  Paddy