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Monthly meeting with speaker at Mkt Rasen Festival Hall
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Our quarterly magazine only exists thanks to the hard work of its editor. Without your articles the publication will look a bit thin and uninteresting. From now on if you have something – comment, photo, article that you would like to see in the magazine please email it to: magazine@westwoldsu3a.org.
Thank you in anticipation of lots of “stuff” pouring into the editorial mail box.
The editor of the U3A Sources Magazine would like to invite U3A photographic groups to contribute pictures for use in the magazine.
She is looking for shots that will illustrate the various topics covered in forthcoming editions. These are:
Phyllis is particularly keen to find excellent pictures for the front cover. So get your photographers snapping and see how creative they can be. Further information is available on the national U3A website.
Send all images to: sources@u3a.org.uk
The Viking Way is forty years old this year. Much of its route offers superb walking country with beautiful views from the Lincolnshire Wolds and the Lincoln Edge.
This week, on 6th September the Country Walkers Group followed a circular walk, which covered not only some of the best of the Viking Way but also the track marched by the Romans along Ermine Street.
We parked in Coleby at the Tempest Inn and our team of eight set off to join Ermine Street.
This section of the famous road is now rural track. We marched along the straight track for a couple of miles in the heat of the September sun until we reached the attractive village of Navenby, where we found a very welcome sign for a coffee shop. No-one needed to be asked twice so we put up the sun umbrellas and sat out in the sun drinking coffee.
From Navenby the character of the walk route changed as we joined the Viking Way. Walking northward we followed the Lincoln Cliff edge, with its beautiful views westward across the Trent Valley to the Pennines in the distance.
At this time of year the fields are brown and golden as the farmers finish harvesting and begin ploughing. Much of the scarp slope of the Lincoln Edge is too steep for arable so we saw lots of cows too, as well as the odd little field mouse . We passed the time of day with a few walkers..
Halfway along the route is the lovely village of Boothby Graffoe where the limestone buildings rival anything to be seen in the Cotswolds.
Eventually we saw the spire of Colby Church. Now we knew it was not far to lunch. The Tempest Arms was prepared for us. They’d cooked our orders and served us on the terrace, under sun umbrellas again. Food and service were superb.
Add that to good company, fine weather and the glorious Lincolnshire landscape and you’ve got the ideal recipe for a U3A Country Walk. There were no real gradients on this walk, so everyone found it easy, even those who think they can’t do 6 miles. (Name withheld but she knows who she is!)
If you enjoy getting out in the countryside, do sign up for a walk at the next monthly meeting. In the programme there’s a distance to suit everyone.
Liz Jefferson
Lois Fenn talked about her experiences as a young child living in wartime Hull and her subsequent evacuation to Lincolnshire when the bombing of the city became too dangerous. She had a lot of detail about the number of raids and houses demolished but for me it was difficult to comprehend the numbers and it would have been better if she had slides to show us.
She had some very amusing stories from her own experiences during the air raids but she didn’t read some newspaper articles because she couldn’t find them which indicated a lack of preparation. Her descriptions painted an evocative picture of a city child suddenly finding themselves in the Lincolnshire countryside. After four years in the country she suddenly found herself back in Hull and looking after her new baby sister. Overall it was a good personal memoir that has led to a writing career with four books to her name. As often is the case with our speakers it ended with a sales pitch for her books.
This is a personal review and if you have any thoughts of your own please add your comments.
The September Newsletter is now available online. Click here to read it…
An audit of West Wolds U3A owned assets will be undertaken prior to the AGM. This will enable the Business Secretary and Treasurer to check and value equipment owned by WW U3A, but held by respective group coordinators. It is requested that a list of equipment (not necessarily electrical) held by groups be provided to the Sec (David Oliver) at the September General Meeting.
Many Thanks
David
Fantastic to see Lyn Henry’s Paper Engineering Group included in TAM. Well done.( Didn’t press the right button for publication when I wrote this, sorry)
Thanks Mandy – I try to send items regularly to Third Age Matters, but this is the first time they have printed either a letter, or an item for Coast to Coast. I want to avoid photos of a group standing somewhere in a line up and to show West Wolds as doing something different. Have just sent off something new today, so we’ll keep an eye out for it in future editions!!
Brian.
Our visit to Leicestershire started early and we arrived in Glenfield at 10 am where volunteers from Leicester Industrial History Society were waiting to welcome us and walk us part way through the Glenfield tunnel. The tunnel is one of the oldest in the country and at roughly one mile long was one of the longest at the time.
The tunnel was dark, damp and rough underfoot but we got the feel what it might be like with the volunteers playing a recording made when one of the last steam trains went through the tunnel back in the 1960s.
After the tunnel walk we stopped for lunch at the Railway Inn where our orders had been left when we first arrived. Unfortunately our lunches were running late (typical railway) and sadly Brian had to chase them up on more than one occasion to get food on our tables.
Lunch out of the way we were back on the coach and on to Swannington village to walk the incline and see where the engine house used to stand. Another short coach journey to finish our visit at Hough windmill and coal workings around the village. Thank you Brian for organising another fascinating visit.
On Wednesday a group of 25 from the Garden Group visited the Tatton Park Gold winning garden now installed at Louth Hospice. The weather was beautiful for our first of what will no doubt be many outings.
The hospice laid on afternoon tea and cakes with the group making generous donations towards the hospice totalling £149.
Considering the garden has been laid once and then ripped up and rebuilt at Louth the planting has stood up very well. The flowers are past their best but it will regenerate next spring once it has settled down. I think many of the group found inspiration from using wild flowers and grasses in the appropriate environment. For a full list of plants used in the garden click here… Of course you may have a different view in which case please leave a comment.
Jane Barnes of Southfields Farm, Somerby entertained us with a lively and fascinating talk about the life of a dairy farmer’s wife.
With a herd of Ayrshire cows (they have changed in recent years from Friesian), Jane took us through the trials and tribulations of modern-day farming, from buying new cows to the 365 days a year commitment to managing the herd. The four bulls had their work cut out servicing the herd and took it in turns to make sure every cow delivered a calf each year. Each cow, at its peak, produces 30 to 40 litres of milk per day. This is used solely for the production of Stilton cheese which was available to purchase at the end of her presentation.
She was an excellent ambassador for british farming in all its activities and she was definitely not shy of promoting their Stilton cheese, her skills at giving talks and the farm visits she hosts by appointment for groups at £10 per head.
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’.
Great to see Lyn Henry’s Paper Engineering group included in TAM. Well done.
To see the results of the 2016 survey please click here…
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
The 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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