Extreme Visits – Extreme Pizzas – This could get a bit messy!

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Learn how to make your own pizzas from your own selection of prime ingredients. A prime survival skill!

[If it’s not dangerous and requires a helmet and/or a survival suit of some sort Adrian just has to declare it as being important! ]

Well, it will certainly be fun and, I guess very popular.

So read all the details if you’d like to go, and apply promptly – it may be next year but places are going fast.

Extreme Visits – Indoor Karting – Re-Visit

Due to the original demand and the very enthusiastic reaction by WTU3A members in December a second visit is being scheduled to Rogue Racing Indoor Karting  for Friday 10th February – early application is recommended as this will fill quickly.

Read the attached pdf for all the details and, for further information contact Damian (wtu3aextreme@gmail.com.

From our Correspondent – Overseas News

Wendover U3A have invited WTU3A members to join them on a “Milton Keynes Discovery Day” on Monday 30th January 2017.

There will be a coach from Wendover to the Milton Keynes Discovery Centre followed by a guided coach tour about the heritage, and urban planning of Milton Keynes City which is celebrating 50 years in January 2017.

After a carvery lunch in Shenley, there will be a tour of The Church of the Cornerstone in central Milton Keynes. This tour will last about an hour and a half. Tea will be available afterwards.

Cost £27.00 to include lunch and cup of tea.

Pick up times: Please wait at the bus stop: Opposite the George 9.00 am, Opposite Ashbrook 9.05 am, Bedgrove Sainsbury 9.15 am – Depart 4.15 pm

Please contact Belinda- wend.U3a.webmaster@gmail.com or through the Wendover U3A website, Travel Team page.

Garden Group visit to Old Church Cottage

The Garden Group, for their first visit of 2017, are going to the National Gardens Scheme (NGS) opening of  Old Church Cottage  garden at nearby Long Marston (HP23 4QT). This will be on Saturday 25th February in the morning, the gardens opening at 11.30am.

It is a small garden around a 400yr old thatched cottage adjoining a disused churchyard with ancient yews and a Norman tower being the remnant of a Chapel of Ease.  The garden laid out with raised beds containing many species and varieties of snowdrops together with cyclamen, crocuses, irises and other early spring bulbs. The garden is at the end of a very narrow country lane so visitors are requested to park at the Village Hall.

Old Church Cottage is an ancient listed buildings in a conservation zone  … read on NGS Gardens

Travel will be by car-share leaving the Five Bells at 11am (please note the parking limitations in Long Marston) Admission is £5.00. Light refreshments, Mulled wine and muffins included in admission. Pay on the day. New visitors are welcome to come along but do need to ‘sign up’ – please contact Gaynor Edwards in good time before this, and other events (gardens@wtu3a.org.uk)