Weston Turville U3A Newsletter – August 2015
Weston Turville U3A Newsletter – August 2015
A MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAIRMAN: I would like to thank everyone who helps at the general meeting. I believe you make a major contribution to the warmth and hospitality experienced by our members. If you, as a member, wish to help, please talk to one of the committee.
Susan Connolly runs a Poetry Writing Group (see our website for details). Group leaders could
you please keep me informed of any major changes to your group.
Glynn White will be collecting names and payment of £2 for the U3A 2016 diaries at the general meeting.
Apparently members are receiving spam emails purportedly from other WTU3A members. Before you open the email check the title of the email. If it is not a subject you know about or from someone you expect to hear from; treat with caution!
Dave Johnson Chairman
SPEAKER: Our next meeting is on Thursday 27th August and our speaker is Andy Smith “Under the Influence”
TRIPS: AFTERNOON TEA ON THE THAMES: Friday 4th September (1230- 6pm) £46 inc. coach, tea and cruise. BALANCE OF MONEY NOW DUE. Contact Mandi Simons
MURDERS AND BLACK MUSEUM: Friday 23 October. The list is full but a reserve list is being run. Please inform me if you can no longer do this trip. The balance of the monies owed is now due.
Mandi Simons
CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT: ST ALBANS CATHEDRAL. Dave Johnson is organising a trip to St. Alban’s Cathedral for an evening Bach Christmas Coral Concert on Saturday 12th December. Names and a deposit of £10 at the general meeting. Final costs will depend on numbers attending but should be less than £30. (For information: There is a European-style Christmas Market
in St Albans which runs from Thursday 26th November to Sunday 20th December 2015.)
VISITING CHURCHES: Our September visit will be to St John the Baptist, Little Missenden on Wednesday 16th. This church started life in the 900’s and although small is of great interest and a must to visit. If you would like to join us, please confirm your name at the monthly meeting or contact one of us by phone. New joiners will be very welcome. John Richardson 01296 481351 (richardson1688@gmail.com) or Margaret Baynes 01296 630987
FOOD APPRECIATION: Beaujolais Noveau at The Village Gate. Thursday, 19th November 2015:12 for 12.30 pm until 3pm. Join members of the U3A for lunch and the excitement of drinking the first
offering of this wine from France, (Sensible wine buff comments not allowed). Price £28 per
person, Payable on Booking. Cheque payable to“Weston Turville U3A (Travel)”.
This price is for a 4 course meal including a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau. Any additional costs. eg. Coffee/Tea must be paid for before leaving .Come and join us for a Festive Christmas Lunch at our local 17th Century Inn, The Chequers in Weston Turville. Sunday, 13th December 2015 (12 for 12.30 pm until 3pm).You can be sure of a warm welcome from our hosts Dritan & Ranka Lani.
The price per head is for Canapés followed by a 3 course meal (gratuities included). Any additional costs i.e. Wine/Coffee/Tea etc. must be paid for before leaving. £31 per person Payable on Booking Cheque payable to “Weston Turville U3A (Travel)” Pam Wilson
HISTORIC BUILDINGS: September 8th visit to Moreton in Marsh followed by a private tour of Seizencote house and gardens (listed in the Daily Mail as one of the twenty historic houses you must visit).
There are a few seats left and the cost is £26 Pick-up Chandos 9.15: shops 9.20. Watch out for details of our outing on Friday 16th October. Ceinwyne Jones
Remember to check the website www.wtu3a.org.uk for more up to date information and for any old newsletters and articles. Use the Search box or tag words on the right of the page. Please send photos of your events and activities to photos@wtu3a.org.uk including what the subjects are, when taken and who took them.
VISITING GARDENS: Our last garden visit for this year to Kelmarsh Hall on Tuesday September 15th. We will leave Weston Turville Main Street bus stop opposite the shops at 9am. I have one space available if anyone who would like to join us on this visit. We have visited gardens from February to September this year: eight in total for 2015. Gaynor Edwards
EXTREME VISITS: Forrest Segway Experience – Black Park, Wexham 1st Sep 2015 At time of going to press, full, but no wait list. Cheque of £35 to “Weston Turville U3A (Travel)” now due!
BloKarting – Weston Super Mare 1st and 2nd Oct 2015 There are 2 spaces remaining and you are welcome to join us for any of the programme. £40 for the experience. Shared cars for transport. Deposit Cheque of £4 to “Weston Turville U3A (Travel)” now due! For those of you signed up for this event – logistics message in first week of September.
There are 2 spaces remaining and you are welcome to join us for any of the programme
| 1st October | 2nd October | ||
| 09:40 | High Tide | 09:30 | Geology walk |
| 12:00 | Lunch at Salvatore’s, or Wharf Side Tea Room |
10:21 | High Tide |
| 14:00 | BloKarting Group 1 (until 18:00) | 12:00 | Lunch at Tiffany’s, or Wharf Side Tea Room |
| 15:40 | Low Tide | 14:00 | BloKarting Group 2 (until 18:00) |
| 19:00 | Dinner, La Cucina | 16:18 | Low Tide |
| 19:00 | Dinner, Yo-Ji |
Over the O2 with Bath U3A 15th Oct 2015 If you missed the WT U3A “Over the O2” experience, you are cordially invited to joint Bath U3A. Buy you own ticket as near to 12:15 as you can and contact the organiser.
They intend to arrive by the Emirates Cable Car and return via Thames Clipper. For full faq, read
www.theo2.co.uk/up-at-the-o2-faqs.html Contact Pam Galloway, email pgalloway1@gmail.com
Archery Indoor Archery 20th Oct and 2nd Nov 2015. Unexpectedly popular, but a few places available! If you booked for 2nd November but would like to switch to the earlier date, let
us know. We would like to spread the archers more evenly between the dates to allow those on 2nd November more time each with a bow. 10:30: Chiltern Archery Centre; £15
cheque to “Weston Turville U3A (Travel)” by September General Meeting at the absolute latest.
National Centre for Circus Arts – Juggling Workshop 10th Dec 2015
Save the date, Details to follow. Hoping to be able to accommodate a maximum of 40 clowns. National Centre for Circus Arts, Coronet Street, London, N1 6HD For further details on any extreme visit please contact Adrian or Trevor, email extreme@wtu3a.org.uk
OVERSEAS NEWS: TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER, Moseley Old Hall (NT), £18 or £24 (non NT), Includes 1 course medium carvery meal. Pick up – 8.00am lay-by outside Sainsbury’s Bedgrove. Moseley Old Hall is an Elizabethan house, altered in the 19th century
Bantock House Museum, Wolverhampton. A museum of Edwardian life and local history. THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER £19 Pick-up – 8.50am layby outside Sainsbury’s Bedgrove.
Coventry Cathedral; St Michael’s – the third of three cathedrals. + Free time. Suggested
places to visit -Wyley crypt chapel, St Mary’s Guildhall, Priory visitor centre – Coventry museums, Herbert Art gallery.
Please contact wend.u3achairman@gmail.com for details or to reserve a place.
Note from the Editor: I wish to thank you for your response to my appeal for volunteers last month, the immediate crises appears to be over but there will be a need for new committee members next year. Our constitution was set up to enable new replacements on the committee at regular times to stop the committee becoming stale and to inject fresh ideas: the downside of this is that we lose committee members nearly every year. If you think you could assist us as a committee
member please contact Dave Johnson (Chairman) or any other committee member to find out what it entails. It is not an arduous role but would require about 6-8 hours a month of your time.
If anyone, group leader or not, has anything they wish to put into the newsletter could they please email it to me by the Friday before the general meeting. I will not guarantee inclusion but I quite often can make a space to include something that is of general interest to all members. Please remember that this information is also available on our website. Mandi Simons
