Art and Craft – A friend who is an expert knitter tells me that this is her place for learning new skills: https://www.youtube.com/user/verypinkknits

Health and Leisure – the RHS have a whole series of gardening videos here: https://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalHorticulturalSo

History – A whole series of lectures (I particularly enjoyed ‘What Did The Romans Ever Do For Us’) from the British Museum are available here: https://tinyurl.com/t44sm6y

Languages – a blog by an American living in France with her French husband. She gives you a new word, then shows how it can be used. Make sure to read the entry on ‘épargner’: https://french-word-a-day.typepad.com/

Literacy – just in case you haven’t already heard it, there is a real life mystery podcast broadcast by the BBC, entitled Death In Ice Valley, here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06242qb

Mind Games – this website has a list of what they consider the best card games. There are plenty I had never heard of, and they also have recommendations on board games. https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/tag/card-games-that-dont-suck/ You can also play card and some other games online here: https://cardgames.io/

Music – the Raven, a local folk club (Bear and Billet, Lower Bridge St) have starting having virtual folk clubs at 8:30 on Sunday evenings. Mostly excellent musicians, but amateurs at using video, they improve each week. You can see the last two weeks worth (more will be added as they are done; if you are talented musically you can send them one of yourself (it doesn’t need to be folk, they are very broad-minded) here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuw9wQwmwbNX_XT7CRRjxfQ

Science and Nature – Biomimicry, the way we can imitate nature to solve real world problems, is a fascinating topic, and was just about to be the subject of a U3A Royal Institute lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy2gOq6nTJY&t=1s

Last, but not least, there is an excellent and informative talk about Coronavirus here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGTtGCq9grE