SATURDAY, 3 DECEMBER: Birdlife Port Natal visits Springside Reserve with Elena Russell at 6am. Confirm attendance, meeting time and place. There will be a silver collection for the conservancy. Cheese and tomato sandwiches to be toasted and enjoyed at this Christmas outing. Call Elena Russell on 031-705-2902.
SATURDAY, 3 DECEMBER: Mini fête at Arcadia Old Age Home (opposite Marlborough Park School, Bluff) from 8.30am to 12.30pm. Go and enjoy the delicious snacks, homemade cakes, chutney and other delectable ‘goodies’. The jumble shop will also open, so get some bargains for Christmas.
WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER: Birdlife Port Natal visits Stainbank Nature Reserve at 7.30am. Call Sandi du Preez on 031-701-4839 or on 073-332-4431. Confirm with Sandi should you plan on joining. An entrance fee is payable but entry is free for those with a Wild Card or Golden Rhino card. Take along a chair as well as coffee/tea and snacks for a picnic afterwards.
THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER: KwaZulu-Natal branch of the South African Military History Society meets at 7pm for 7.30pm at the Murray Lecture Theatre, Department of Civil Engineering, UKZN Howard College campus.
The talk will be entitled ‘Another aeroplane crash in the Scottish Highlands’ by Ian Sutherland. Visitors are welcome. For more details call Roy Bowman on 084-951-2921 or Ken Gillings on 031-702-4828 or go to https://samilitaryhistory.org.
TUESDAY, 13 DECEMBER: Birdlife Port Natal holds a talk at 9.30am for 10am, where Brent Coverdale will be talking about alien birds at Kranzkloof Interpretive Centre. Entrance costs R 20 and tea and coffee will be served. Contact Tessa White tessadavid@telkomsa.net
