Social & Educational Group for Market Rasen & Surrounding Area

West Wolds
University of the 3rd Age

No longer working full time and live in the Mkt Rasen Area?
Want to learn or be creative? Want to stay active & meet new people?
40+ interest groups, visits, low subscription fees.
Monthly meeting with speaker at Mkt Rasen Festival Hall
2nd Thursday of the month doors open 9.30 – Everyone Welcome

POSTS

  • Gardening Club Visit

    WED 24TH  AUGUST 2016

    Caitlin McClaughlin – Young Designer of the Year’s Prize-winning garden

    This lovely garden which won Caitlin the award for ‘Young Designer of the Year 2016’ at R.H.S. Tatton Park has been dismantled and removed to St Barnabas’ Hospice Louth.

    The visit to see the garden and hear about its development from conception to reality will be at 3pm followed by refreshments and cake at the Hospice. This is a golden opportunity to see this prize winner on our own doorstep.  Donations to the Hospice would be appreciated.

    Directions – take the A631 (A157) from Market Rasen until you reach the A16 at Louth, take 1st exit from the roundabout onto A16 towards Grimsby, continue over the next roundabout and at next roundabout take 1st exit for the Hospice entrance.  Anyone needing transport please contact Mary Howes, tel 01673 849554, email mary-howes1@hotmail.co.uk.

    Next meeting – Wed Sept 21st 2pm.  A visit to Meadow Farm, home of Roger and Mary Howes.  Don’t expect a beautiful garden!  The house and land have been sadly neglected, but this is the beginning of a long-term project – lots of plans, so see the ‘before’ and come back again as it develops to see the ‘after’.

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  • VISITS TO LOUTH RIVERHEAD THEATRE

    I will pre-book blocks of twenty seats for a selection of shows at Louth Riverhead Theatre, these being ones which look like they will have a general appeal to our members.  Travel will be up to individuals, but as usual, try to arrange car sharing between those who want to go.  If there is a demand for a pre-show meal at ‘Marrakesh’ as we have done before, I may look at this.

    Booking Sheets will be available from the August Meeting onwards, but as the first is in September, you can contact me using the contact sheet in the Visits section, or use my email: briandgill@btinternet.com.  For the theatre visits, please pay me personally, (NOT cheques to U3A) as I have to buy the tickets on my card!

    Wednesday 14 September:

    Louth Playgoers Production of ‘BLACKADDER.’ £8.50 pp. Starts at 7.30 pm.

    Will feature Queenie, Nursie, Baldrick et al!!

    Wednesday 9 November:

    Louth Playgoers Production of ‘QUARTET.’ £8.50 pp. Time 7.30 pm.

    The touching story of the annual concert at the home for retired opera singers – great as a film/tv.

    Brian Ward

    01472 852273

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  • Places Available!

    hough windmillThe Industrial Archaeology Visit to Leicestershire on Thursday 25th August has more places available as a result of booking a larger coach. For full details contact Brian using the contact form below or ring 01472 852273.

     

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  • Jazz Club

    jazz clubAdvance details for the next season of Cafe Jazz at Grimsby Central Hall. A booking sheet for visiting any concert will be provided at the monthly meetings.

    Saturday 8th October 2016 – 7.30pm

    The Bateman Brothers Jazz Band with “The Ultimate Louis Armstrong Show”. Tickets £13 in advance.

    Saturday 12th November 2016 – 7.30pm

    Tad Newton’s Jazz Friends. Tickets £13

    For future events click here…

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  • Garden Group

    garden-groupThe inaugural meeting of the new Garden Group was held today, 18th July, and will meet on the third Wednesday of the month. The first formal meeting will be in September but we are trying to arrange in August a visit to a RHS Tatton Park show garden entrant which will be rebuilt at St Barnabas Hospice site, Louth.

    If you wish to join the group or have any questions please visit the group’s web page here…

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  • A new look at Newark.

    Many members said they only knew Newark as somewhere they bypassed en route to the wider world.  Our recent visit to the new Civil War Centre allowed them to see some of the town  as well!  First off we enjoyed coffee and cookies on arrival, then everyone took as much time as they wanted to explore the permanent displays relating to the Civil War which caused Newark to be besieged, and also the current exhibition about the techniques of dealing with injuries sustained in the bloody hand to hand fighting of that age.  Pretty gruesome.

    Then we met our guides for a tour of Newark Castle, where several intrepid climbers made their way up the 77 steps to the top of the Tower.

    Laughing Cavalier
    Jack the Ripper
    Exploring the Undercroft
    Checking the bar stock
    Back a bit Ken
    When the booat cums in

    Our guides, Floss Newman and her assistant, unlocked doors to the Undercroft (built in what had once been the river itself), and then the Debtors Dungeon – if you got thrown in there, you came out as bones …  It was amazing to see original graffiti from the time of the Templars.

    We rounded off the day with an afternoon trip on the 1902 MV ‘Sonning,’ from Newark to Farndon (the original site of the Roman settlement which later moved to Newark).  It got a bit chilly on the return journey, but it allowed a different view of the countryside, and we saw many waterfowl, including herons patiently fishing.

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  • Cuba via Congleton U3A

    cuba-visit-advertCuba’s capital, Havana, has become the place for celebrities and VIPs to be seen in. So far this year, the city has played host to US President Obama, the Rolling Stones, the Kardashians and a fashion show by top models for Chanel. And this week at an inauguration ceremony, Havana was officially named one of the New Seven Wonders Cities of the World.

    Do you fancy going? We are organising a trip for Congleton U3A to Cuba in May 2017 and at the moment – we have a few places left and wondered if any of your U3A would be interested in going on the trip with them? They have asked us to approach other U3As on their behalf. Please click here to see the itinerary for the full tour. For information contact Claire Buckley Greatdays Travel Group Tel: 0161 928 3242, Email: sales@greatdays.co.uk

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  • A Walk on the Wild Side at Woodside Wildlife Park …

    An afternoon out on a sunny Monday found some of the digital photography group practising their shutter speeds (and other controls) amongst the residents of this wildlife park near Lincoln.  All returned unscathed by close contact with the jungle beasties.

    Flowers as well
    Cranes across a bridge
    Big Boy
    Capybara dozing
    Otters awaiting
    Owl contemplating
    Parrot posing
    Tiger thinking
    White wolf strolling

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  • Heather Rosser – Monthly Speaker

    Heather-Rosser-TalkHeather Rosser is a professional author of textbooks and also a novel “In the Line of Duty“. Her talk covered how she developed the theme of her novel based on her family history and the trials and tribulations of getting it published.

    She accompanied her talk with illustrations from family photos and reading passages from her book. She obliquely mentioned several incidents that occurred in her family but wouldn’t elaborate because it would spoil the novel. As she related true incidents from her family and how this translated into the fictional story I found it difficult to follow who was real and who was fictional. It would have been helpful to have had an illustration of the family tree (real and fictional)

    It felt like a meander through her family history (fact and fictional) however it lacked coherence with last-minute decisions not to read particular paragraphs. She referred to some of the social effects of the war such as “the waifs and strays society”; white feathers; and the number of abandoned babies however these references lacked depth.

    She completed her talk with the journey she took to getting her novel published in 2014, 100 years after the assassination Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

     

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  • Meals on Wheels …

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    The usual Saturday chores were banished on the 21st May by our enjoying Lunch on a Steam Train, travelling on the heritage railway from Loughborough to Leicester, and back again, through attractive countryside.  Our meal was tomato and basil soup, followed by our pre-ordered choice of beef, Merlot and mushroom pie, or roast leg of lamb with date & herb stuffing and mint gravy, ending with lemon tart & cream, with tea or coffee and mints to follow.  The wine list and

    Meals on wheels being enjoyed by one and all.

    beers offered a good choice and we all managed to savour something to suit our palettes, knowing the coach would be waiting for us at 3.0pm to make the return trip back home to Market Rasen.  It was quite quiet on the way back  …  something to do with the very good food and drink of which we had partaken in ample sufficiency, no doubt.  Much better than slaving over a hot stove or sitting in a static restaurant folks!  You missed a treat.

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  • Steve Short – Monthly Speaker

    eric-and-ernieSteve Short is a professional magician and raconteur. His vehicle for his amusing talk was the life and times of Morecambe and Wise. Right from the beginning he was telling jokes, demonstrating his magic and generally keeping the audience amused.

    He talked us through how they got together, the influences on their act (Abbot and Costello) and their rise to fame with the inevitable failures on the way. With such well-loved characters who became a part of the national psyche and who we invited into our homes on a regular basis during the 60s, 70s and 80s there was bound to be the sadness of Eric’s death at the age of 58 in 1984.

    There was audience participation with simple but impressive tricks – how did he produce that tissue paper hat after tearing up two pieces of tissue paper?

    The whole event was presented extremely well with Steve measuring the humour, comedy and magic with a deft lightness that left the audience uplifted and singing “Bring me Sunshine” as we left the Festival Hall.

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  • U3A supports Festival Hall Promotional event.

    Market Rasen’s Festival Hall recently held a Saturday event to draw the public’s attention to the variety of uses to which it can be put.  The Hall requires remedial work and bringing into the 21st Century so funds are needed, and additional usage by local organisations will help this.  As an existing important user, U3A supported the event by presenting work by some of its groups (our Belly Dancers became the Turkish Desert Dancers; Keep Fit; and Singers), along with a display table of what our branch has to offer.  All photos here were taken by Dianne Tuckett of the Rasen Mail.

    Follow me girls …
    Veils galore
    Swing low, swing high
    Abdul the camel herder
    Singing for Britain

     

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  • Chairman’s Chat

    Gail DennisThe Open Day at the Festival Hall, Market Rasen was very well supported by our U3A. Thank you to all the performers and all the audience members who came to support us. We may well have several potential new members turning up at our next monthly meeting since there were several enquiries at our display table. The day was another example of how vibrant our U3A is and how willing people are to try something new,in this case performing in front of an audience. Thank you again for being such an important part of the whole event.

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