Les Cloutman led a large audience of U3A members on a breathless journey covering 4,000 years in the history of our county.

His starting point was the breaking of the land bridge with the continent and the subsequent separation of our island flora and fauna from our neighbours. Over the next two millennia some of the land was cleared for agriculture and animal husbandry and the climate gradually warmed until around 2,000 BC and the Iron Age.

The name Someset originally meant "The Summer Land" as much of it was used only during the summer months, Somerton became the County Town, the centre of a thriving and productive region. The audience was breathless as Les eventually brought the picture up to the present day.

May brings the end of the year for U3A. The AGM is on Monday 19 May in Ubley Parish Hall, coffee is served from 10.15am and we shall be entertained with a presentation from our Jazz Appreciation Group. There are no meetings in June or July and we reconvene for the new season on 18 August.