INFORMATION
REPORTS and REQUESTS
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100 YEARS!
We
had an excellent Meet and
Greet in February when we
celebrated Wyn Peters' 100th
birthday. A lot of members
attended and Wyn was on great
form. We
were delighted to welcome the
Mayor of Taunton and his wife
to the celebrations. The
100th Birthday Cake was
magnificent!
[15 Feb 12]
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Help
with Meeting and Greeting
potential new members!
We
do need more volunteers to act
as 'Meeters and Greeters'.
Sometimes we get a number of
prospective new members
arriving at the same time and,
while the Meeters and Greeters
are involved with earlier
arrivals, later arrivals get
left to wait. If you think you
could help occasionally please
contact Dorothy Ingram on 251625.
[15 Feb 12]
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HOLIDAY
TO NORFOLK
There
are still a few places available
on the holiday (15th -19th
October). We shall be staying at
The Holiday Inn in Norwich.
The cost is £350 (single
supplement £70). We
will be visiting two National
Trust properties, Bletchley
Park, Sandringham and taking a
ride on The Burr Valley Railway.
For more information contact the
organiser on 271222,
or Sandy Davies on 321038.
[Jan 12]
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U3A
TRIP TO YORKSHIRE
"In
the early hours of 19th
September disparate groups of
U3A members staggered
bleary-eyed on to a Berry’s
coach to start a five-day
holiday together. ..." More
[Dec 11]
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| COMMITTEE |
Our
new Chairman is
actually a lady. She is Jane
Dickson who has also
taken on being the editor of our
newsletter. Jane is quite a new
member but has had a lot of
experience on committees and with
U3A when she belonged to Tunbridge
Wells U3A. She has lots of ideas
and will, I am sure, be an
excellent person to take over from
Jack. [Nov 11]
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FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
BOOKINGS
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make a booking please contact the
Committee Member responsible for
this on 01823 330996. [Nov 11] |
| SPECIAL INTEREST DAY |
This is a day when all the
local U3As take it in turns to
organise a special event. Our turn
will be in 2013. This seems a long
time away but organising such a
day takes a lot of work so we have
already started on it.
The committee is made up of
Dorothy Ingram, Joy Abnett, Janet
Jones, Ron Cann and myself.
We have booked the Temple
Methodist Church for Saturday 18th
May 2013.
We are now in the process of
organising speakers and visits.
We intend keeping you up-to-date
with our progress although, once
the preliminaries have been
settled, there will probably be a
bit of a gap until closer to the
time when we will be asking for
help from members to assist with
the actual running of the day. [Nov 11]
Tickets for
the 2012 Special Interest Day
organised by Bridgwater U3A and
to be held on Saturday 23rd June
at Cannington College are now
available.
There will be two speakers and a
guided tour around the Walled
Garden. Tickets cost £12
with a buffet lunch at
£7.50 extra. Please
contact me, Sandy, on 01823
321038 if you want tickets. [Dec 11] |
| NEWSLETTER |
| December
2011
Newsletter is
currently available - contact
the Editor on 284626
for further information |
Deadline
for
articles for the March
newsletter
is 27th February. Please
email copy to Jane
Dickson whose email address
is: dickson324@btinternet.com
[Nov 11]
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| CONVENORS |
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Web
Pages
Please contact the Webmanager
if you wish to add a Programme
of events and/or a Resources
Link to your existing
webpage (see examples of this
on the Reading
& Watching Shakespeare page)
or if anything on your webpage
needs to be changed in order
to keep it up to date! [Nov 11] |
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NEW
GROUP!
Digi Cameras
This
new group meets in the
afternoon of the
1st Friday of each month.
For
information on this group,
please contact the
convenor on 01823
271222
[30 Jan 12] |
CHANGE
OF DAY!
SCRABBLE
We
have changed from Tuesdays
to Wednesdays
and now meet in the
afternoon of the
1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month
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CHANGE
OF DAY!
READING &
WATCHING SHAKESPEARE
After
January 31st the group will
meet regularly at the same
time but on the 3rd and 4th
Tuesdays
of each month, beginning
with February 21st, and then
28th.
Having
nearly completed a study of
Hamlet the
group will begin to study Twelfth
Night on February
28th. For
more information on
this group, please see the Learning
page and/or contact the
convenor on 01823
481963
[Jan 12] |
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NEW
GROUP!
HISTORY WALKS AROUND
TAUNTON
For
information on this group,
please contact the convenor on
01823 284626
[Jan 12] |
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NEW
GROUP!
ENQUIRING
MINDS
Are you often afraid to ask a
question because it might be the
wrong one to ask?
Do you often think of a good
question and then find that it's
gone?
How good are you at listening to
other people's ideas?
Do you think that other people
always have better thoughts than
you?
What do you think about? Can you
think of more than one idea at a
time?
Do you find it difficult to
articulate your ideas to other
people?
If the answer to most of these
questions is yes (or even no) than
you might be interested in joining
a new U3A group called Enquiring
Minds where there are no
'right answers' just good
questions.
We start by posing an interesting
question, then asking people to
ask a question about the question
or make a statement about it.
After we have collected all the
questions or statements we then
vote on the one question we would
like to discuss. From this there
is then an interesting and open
enquiry about the chosen question
and during the debate we become a
Community of Enquirers.
This new group is hoping to start
in the New Year. For more
information please contact the
convenor on 01823
270537
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NEW
GROUP!
BEADING
This new group meets in the
afternoon of the 1st and
3rd Wednesdays of each
month, at the convenor's home.
For more information please
contact the Groups'
Co-Ordinator, on 01823
252619.
[Jan11]
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| Computers
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Experienced -
There are 3 spare
places on this course. Please
contact the convenor (see the page
for this group in Learning
in the menu at the top of this
page) for further information. [Nov 11] |
| Computers
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Improvers. By popular
demand, this group is now meeting
twice
a month, ie. on the 2nd and
4th Mondays from 2.00pm - 4.30pm [Nov 11] |
| Environmental
Studies - new
programme now displayed on
the Environmental Studies Group
page [Nov 11] |
| Latin
Group -
for further information
on this active group please
contact the convenor on 01823
332860 [Nov 11] |
| Science
- This course will start in
the New Year (2012). We will be
watching a series of 1/2 hour DVD
lectures entitled Great
Scientific Ideas that Changed
the World, and discussing
them in the group. No previous
knowledge or experience of science
is required!. We will meet at 6
Birch Grove, Taunton in the
afternoons of the 1st and 3rd
Thursdays of each month. For more
information please see the item
called Keeping Science Alive!
in the September
Newsletter (available
online under Publications
- see above), or visit Science
in the Thursday section
of the Learning webpage
(above) and/or contact the
convenor on 01823
284504. [Nov 11] |
| Play
Reading 1 - commenced
on Monday 12th September at 2pm
in the Small Room at the Frank
Bond Centre. See Learning
webpage for more details.
[Nov 11] |
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