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Adults Lego Serious Play - Recap from July's session

Community CSW2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:53:29 GMT

We had all received a lovely parcel in the post for our creations at our meeting this month. There were different builds all Technic Lego sent to the group members. There was an aeroplane, a backhoe loader, dune buggy, digatron truck ... I think that was all of them, please do correct me if I have missed or got one of them wrong!

Our session always starts with if we have built anything in the last month, or finished off a build that we have already started and shared with the group. There were a couple of us who had done a build, one being the Panda (oh he is so cute) and another had done the Parrot, both fabulous builds and thank you for sharing with us.

We then set about building our Technic Lego, there were some fast builders with us this evening as some finished during the meeting, the rest of us will finish them off over the coming weeks but before the next meeting and hopefully upload to this discussion or please do send them to me and I will upload them for you

Thank you to everyone for making the session another great one.

Book Club Discussion for The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Community CSW2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:11:40 GMT

Hello book club members, this month's book, The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton should be with you now...

Please feel free to share your thoughts on the book here.

A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant.

The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Four of the nation’s most elite biophysicists are summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory located five stories beneath the desert and fitted with an automated atomic self-destruction mechanism for cases of irremediable contamination. Under conditions of total news blackout and the utmost urgency, the scientists race to understand and contain the crisis. But the Andromeda Strain proves different from anything they’ve ever seen - and what they don’t know could not only hurt them, but lead to unprecedented worldwide catastrophe.

For kindle readers this book was unavailable and were given a choice of an audible copy or reading Book 2 "The Andromeda Evolution".

We look forward to our next meeting on 20th July starting at 7.30pm on MS Teams.

Film Discussion - Cinema: Disclosure Day - The R.I.P - Home Movie - June / July 26

Community CDW6 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:21:37 GMT

A place to share your thoughts and feelings of this month's Film's

Cinema Film: Disclosure Day

Home Movie: The R.I.P

I will admit I am really looking forward to this month's film choices and I am hoping the Cinema Film will be as good as I am expecting ... crossing fingers

Review club meeting will be on the 13th July for more information please see advert on the RN Forum calendar

Adults Lego Serious Play - June's Homework

Community CSW2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:21:48 GMT

This month's homework was to create a Forest or Garden scene.

Our first submission is this wonderful creation:

"I did Titania and Oberon in the fairy garden from A Midsummer Night’s Dream… in front of the fairie door in my flat:

You have set the bar Su!

Adults Lego Serious Play Recap from June's Session

Community CSW2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:06:00 GMT

Another great evening of building, talking Lego and sharing homework was had by all who attended this month.

We did some great builds which included: what we did at the weekend, to build a logo and to build something with wheels

Here are some pics from the evening:

Build what we did at the weekend (a timed 10 minute build):

Build a logo (a timed 5 minute build):

Build something with wheels (timed 10 minute build):

Thank you so everyone who has sent me their pics from last night, I look forward to seeing more from the evening posted below

Adults Lego Serious Play Homework for May

Community CSW2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:06:41 GMT

I'm not sure if I am on the right tracks with the homework that we were given at May's Lego Serious Play session, but I am going to be brave a post a photo of what I have done, I think I may have cropped the picture badly to show forced perspective... you tell me ???

As I believe we can now post photos in the reply feature, I would love to see what others have done before our next session on Monday evening.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Monday.

Book Club Discussion for The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Community CSW2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:06:53 GMT

The books will be on their way to all members of the Book Club this week, and this month's book is chosen by the group from the Cultural genre: The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré:

I don't just want to be having any kind voice . . .
I want a louding voice.

At fourteen, Adunni dreams of getting an education and giving her family a more comfortable home in her small Nigerian village. Instead, Adunni's father sells her off to become the third wife of an old man. When tragedy strikes in her new home, Adunni flees to the wealthy enclaves of Lagos, where she becomes a house-girl to the cruel Big Madam, and prey to Big Madam's husband. But despite her situation continuously going from bad to worse, Adunni refuses to let herself be silenced. And one day, someone hears her.

Please feel free to add your comments/views on this book to this post.

Sarah, Nicky and Clare look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on 15 June 2026 from 1930-2100.

Happy reading everyone

Jaws movie

Carole Scott — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:21:06 GMT

Hi all … after the movie club discussion last night, I looked for Jaws at the cinema. Sadly, it’s not showing near us.

If anyone did want to watch it, though, it’s on Amazon Prime, currently, to rent for £3.49 or £5.99 to buy.

I’ve searched all the platforms and this is the only place I can find it, other than Sky Cinema (which we don’t have).

Carole

Adults Lego Serious Play Recap from our May Session

Community CSW2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:47:06 GMT

We had a great evening at our Lego Serious Play session this month, showing off our homework from March's session (we had to miss April due to the Easter weekend falling when it did), and catching up on what builds we have done since we last met, there were quite a few!

Our homework from March's session was to build a face and there were some amazing creations, one person even googled what else they could build with the bricks from from bunny we built in our last session, the results were astounding and we were all suitably impressed with their creation. Here are the homework builds, see if you can guess which one was built with the bricks from the bunny:

Our first build challenge for the evening was the make something that flies, here were the creations:

Our next build was to do something you might see in the garden:

We had a snail, fox, raised beds, flowers, a filled wheelbarrow and a garden scene.

Our last build for the evening was to build something you would find in the sea:

We had corals, submarines, shipwrecks and a lighthouse.

All our builds this month were timed so added to the challenge!

As always we had a fun evening, thank you

Hobby Club Cake Decorations

Community CDW2 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:56:16 GMT

The Hobby Club met this week to take part in a cake decorating session.

Book Club Discussion for Jaws by Peter Benchley

Community CSW2 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:15:52 GMT

This months book is Jaws ... please do leave your thoughts and comments on the book here.

"The vintage thriller which inspired Stielberg’s blockbuster film. In a small Atlantic resort the mutilated body of a young woman, or what is left of it, washes up on a long, white beach. It is merely a harbinger of the horror that is about to unfold, as a sun-drenched holiday turns into a nightmare."

The National Book Club team, Nicky, Clare, Sarah look forward to seeing you on the 18th May from 1930-2100 to discuss at our Teams meeting.

If you are interested in joining the National Book Club please email navypeople-psrnfpscom@mod.gov.uk

The wedding planner

NicolaBee70 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:09:15 GMT

I am nearly half way through this book at the moment I’m finding it a little slow but am persevering .

National Online Easter Lego Parties

Community CSW2 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:18:07 GMT

Thank you for joining Sarah and Clare for some Easter Lego building fun on Sunday 29th March.

We all had an amazing time building from the World Builder Create a World of Play Lego book and building our icebreaker build of a bunny pulling a cart with easter eggs and some of us had a minifigure to build instead - we had frogs, cats, koalas, Dalmatians, crocodiles, monkeys and parrots!

We built a City Car, a Jungle Car, a Spacecraft, a Submarine and there were some awesome free builds with a few taking on the challenge of using all 150 pieces that came with the set.

Here are some pictures from all our parties:

Thank you again for joining Sarah and Clare for our Easter Online Lego Parties, we all had an eggstraordinary day of fun Lego building.

We look forward to seeing you all again soon, keep your eyes peeled for our Online Summer Parties

Book recommendation

Carole Scott — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:15:16 GMT

If you haven't already read it, I highly HIGHLY recommend All the Colours of the Dark.

Online rumours are that it's also in the early stages of being made into a cinematic tv series - this could be amazing if the casting is good!

National Online Children’s Easter Arts & Crafts Parties

Community CSW2 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:44:12 GMT

Thank you for joining Sarah and Clare for some Easter Arts & Crafts fun on Sunday 22 March.

We had a great time painting decorative clay eggs, bunny sun catchers, making clay bunnies and ultimately making Easter bonnets while listening to a story, The Scarecrows Wedding.

Everyone made some eggstrordinary creations and here are some of the pictures we have received so far:

Please do continue to send in your photos and they will get uploaded to this post.

Thank you again to all those who came along and had some eggstraspecial Easter crafting fun.

Book Club - The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Community CSW2 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:37:01 GMT

This month's book is The Wedding People by Alison Espach:

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan--which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can't stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined--and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

Feel free to comment on the book in this discussion.

If you are interested in joining our Book Club please email: navypeople-psrnfpscom@mod.gov.uk

Our next meeting is on Monday 20th April from 1930-2100.

Happy reading

Phantasma by Kaylie Smith

Community CSW2 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:21:47 GMT

For those of us who attended February's book club meeting we were given the option of another book too ... Phantasma by Kaylie Smith:

Welcome to Phantasma. There are only two rules to the game: Stay alive. And don't fall in love.

When Ophelia's sister disappears, there is only one way to save her. Ophelia must enter Phantasma, a deadly contest inside a haunted mansion, and claim its prize--a single wish.

Phantasma is a maze of twisting corridors and lavish ballrooms, of demons and temptations. Ophelia will face nine challenges, each more dangerous than the last. There can only be one winner, and the other contestants will stop at nothing to eliminate their rivals.

Every day the house creates new monsters. But just as Ophelia's fears threaten to overwhelm her, a mysterious stranger offers her a bargain.

Charming, arrogant and infuriatingly attractive, Blackwell claims he can guide her through the lethal trials ahead. All he asks in return is ten years of her life.

Ophelia knows she shouldn't trust him. Blackwell doesn't seem dangerous, but appearances can be deceptive. Worse still, she feels a dark and irresistible attraction drawing them closer and closer.

Her life is on the line. But in Phantasma, the only thing deadlier than losing the game is losing your heart . . .

I confess I haven't finished it yet, but oh my I am enjoying this one so much more than I did The Dicktionary Club!

This one is such a lovely read, incorporating fantasy, romance, seduction to name a few, with demons, ghosts, phantoms this is right up my street. The erotica aspect comes across in a subtle manner with innuendo, I am sure it might get saucier the further into the book I get, and to be honest with you ... I'm looking forward to it if it does I will be surprised if it doesn't with Blackwell's character!!!

Even though I haven't finished it yet, I would highly recommend this book and I will be interested to hear others opinions on this one to ...

Film Club ︎

Carole Scott — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:07:28 GMT

I had a quiet bit of time to myself yesterday afternoon and the chance to watch Official Secrets.
I thought it was a really good and interesting film to watch, very fitting with the current situation.

I don’t want to give anything away as it was only picked a couple of days ago but I definitely recommend. It’s not too long either.

RN Youth Pursuits 'Goat' film review

Community CDW2 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:08:13 GMT

'Goat' is a story about a goat called William who has a dream about entering the Roarball games playing for the Thorns. He faces challenges from his rivals and team mates and to find out whether he succeeds watch the film.

Below are the reviews from the Youth Network.

Lego Serious Play - March "Easter Bunny" Session

Community CSW2 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:42:58 GMT

We had a great time at last nights Lego Serious Play session, following instructions to build an Easter Bunny along with a flower and of course his/her carrot!! Some of us had not done this before and those who hadn't, really enjoyed it. Here are the pictures of the bunnies, yes they are all the same but somehow they all look different in the way that they have been captured on camera by their builders.

Our homework was set too after this wonderful build and that is to create a face out of Lego, the inspiration came from how cute the bunnies face is and how it was build to give us all some inspiration, looking forward to seeing them all next time

Thank you to everyone who came along last night.

Book recommendation

JayneM — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:19:13 GMT

Just before I read the RN Book Club February choice (The Lamplighter's Bookshop) I read my workplace Book Club offering - I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue (her debut novel!) It's a funny and heart-warming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to her colleagues’ private emails and DMs and decides to use this intel to save her job. As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent co-workers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundaries. Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text colour to white so no one can see. That is, until one of her secret messages is exposed. Her punishment: sensitivity training (led by the suspiciously friendly HR guy, Cliff) and rigorous email restrictions. When an IT mix-up grants her access to her entire department’s private emails and DMs, Jolene knows she should report it, but who could resist reading what their co-workers are really saying? And when she discovers layoffs are coming, she realizes this might just be the key to saving her job. The plan is simple: gain her boss’s favour, convince HR she’s Supershops material and beat out the competition. I really enjoyed this story with well developed characters and their own individual stories coming to light as the book progressed. The writing is descriptive, funny and certainly makes you stop and think, 'What would I do?' It's a good reminder that while you think you know your colleagues, you probably don't actually know what's going on in their private lives and that a smile or an offer to make a cup of coffee will go a long way in making someone's day. I know I pleaded with our RN Book Club "no more debut novels" recommendations, but I'm pre-ordering this author's second novel as I enjoyed the style of writing and story telling in her first novel. Hope you enjoy it too. Jayne

The Dicktionary Club by Sophie Gravia

Community CSW2 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:55:38 GMT

This months read, The Dicktionary Club, will be making its way to you, so please feel free to comment on this post.

Three friends fed up with the Glasgow scene decide to set up a women-only website for sisterly advice, but along with its unexpected popularity comes a slew of hilarious and messy consequences.

Ella, Katy, and Zola are done with Glasgow's dating scene. From ghosting to catfishing to cringe-worthy Tinder messages, navigating love in today's society has become an absolute nightmare! But when one of them is dumped by a guy who saw her as nothing more than a quick swipe, the trio decide to fight back and take matters into their own hands. Creating The Dicktionary Club - an exclusive, women-only website dedicated to exposing Scotland's worst serial swipers with brutally honest reviews.

Their mission is to help women spot the red flags, dodge heartbreakers, and take back control of the dating scene. But as the site goes viral, so does the drama in their own love lives. And when one of them starts falling for a guy she's been warning others to avoid, things get messier-and more complicated-than ever...

Our next meeting will be on Monday 16th March 2026 from 1930 till 2100.

If you would like to become part of the Book Club please email navypeople-psrnfpscom@mod.gov.uk

Lego Serious Play - What We Got Up To At February's Session!

Community CSW2 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:30:37 GMT

February's Lego Serious Play Session was enjoyed by all, and there were some great builds done and some amazing homework pieces incorporating our mini figure selves telling a story ... you are all FAB U LOUS

We got 3 builds into the session: a Valentine's themed build, a Shrove Tuesday build, and it was one of the members birthdays and they asked everyone to build them a birthday cake ... thank you :-) if I could have eaten them I would have they all looked good enough to eat :-)

The Lego Family in Mini-figures

Community CDW6 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:57:00 GMT

All members a few months ago were asked to create there own mini-figuare of themselves doing an action or hobby, attached is a photo of them. More members have joined and will add as we grow. To find out more about becoming a member go to the calendar and see the instructions to join this amazing club, when you can relax and have fun

Hobby Club update from Monday's Glass Painting

Community CDW2 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:45:15 GMT

We had a lovely evening glass painting and chatting