Pickleball

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During the structural work and changes at Hucknall Leisure Centre courts have been booked at the Kirkby in Ashfield (Festival Hall) Leisure Centre on: Thursdays from 1pm to 3pm. Please note the change of times from our previous 2pm start.

Several members acted as an advance party and played our first session since early March 2020 on the 20th May, 2021. Covid protocols are in place which restrict each court to a ‘bubble ‘of 6 players. This worked well on the first visit.

Location: Hodgkinson Road Kirkby in Ashfield NG17 7DJ

David and Terry

Ukulele Group

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This group formed almost six years ago and, up to the lockdown 14 months ago, members were playing enthusiastically, introducing new songs each month.

In 2020 they held a few session on Zoom but it wasn’t a popular way of playing as a group, having to ‘mute’ while only being able to hear the leader of the group playing.

24 May 2021 was the date set for an outdoor session, the days leading up to that Monday morning had been atrocious, weather wise, more like November than May, but at 9.15am the sun was shining and the decision was taken to go ahead. The get together to be on the patio at Alan’s home, balloons were tied to the hedge at the entrance to his drive so the nine other members could easily locate the house,. So keen were the members one arrived a good 20 minutes early and another missed the drive and had to go another mile before they could turn around.

Everyone was set up and ready to go at 10.30am, Phil, the group leader admitted that he had not touched the uke since the last Zoom meeting, last September, gasps of horror could be heard from everyone, before most admitted they were as guilty of not practising.

Gradually everyone ‘warmed up’, their playing that is and the sun continued to shine. We managed to play all the songs requested, finishing just as the grey clouds arrived.

The group will start up again, Covid permitting, on Monday 13 September, 2021 at 10am at the John Godber Centre and will resume the regular meetings on 2nd and 4th Monday of the month. If you would like to come along, either to look at playing a ukulele or just to join in the singing please contact me.

To contact Vivian, the Group Co-ordinator, please use the form below:-

    Choir

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    ‘June is busting out all over’ … It’s going to be much easier to sing with the sun shining, although the weather won’t put off anyone who likes to sing, they just may not do it with quite the same brio. Now that we can begin to see the possibility of actually meeting up again, (to me Covid has seemed a bit like being pregnant, you know it must end, but it doesn’t seem absolutely real until there are definite signs of it happening).

    I wonder if anyone else would like to consider joining the choir? You could always come to see what we do, join in or watch. Get in touch nearer the date of our recommencing and we can arrange it. It would be a good time for anyone new to choir singing, and lacking confidence, to give it a go, as we aren’t back yet and it’s already been fourteen months since we sang together, so we’re going to be rusty! Hope to see you all before too long.

    To contact Christine, the group leader, please use the form below:-

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      International Dining

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      Our group has been meeting since February 2016 and we have tried many different foods, including Japanese, Polish, French, India, Nepalese and Thai street food to name but a few. We usually meet bimonthly on the 4th Thursday.

      For further information contact Marilyn Gretton, the group leader, on the form below:-

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        Pub Quiz

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        Hopefully we may be able to re-start the Pub Quiz & Lunch at the Nabb Inn possibly in July but I will contact everyone nearer the date.

        Answers to the cryptic clue quiz for May on Flowers & Herbs
        1. This flower is one in the eye for the girl? IRIS
        2. Got Up? ROSE
        3. Please remember me? FORGET ME NOT
        4. Fashionable feline? DANDELION
        5. Cunning animal’s hand warmer? FOXGLOVE
        6. Bovine error? COWSLIP
        7. Wed Precious Metal? MARIGOLD
        8. Spring Month? MAYFLOWER
        9. Sad Ringer? BLUEBELL
        10. Vehicle State? CARNATION
        11. Duration? THYME
        12. Bill sounds like a nice fellow? SWEET WILLIAM
        13. Industrious Queen? BUSY LIZZIE
        14. Receptacle for dairy product? BUTTERCUP
        15. Used in thickening sauces? CORNFLOWER
        16. Mrs Bucket’s first name? HYACINTH
        17. Enclosure in criminal court for prisoner? DOCK
        18. A nice pad on a lake? LILY
        19. A Vicious Welsh emblem? SNAP DRAGON
        20. A wise old herb? SAGE

        Here’s a General Knowledge quiz to pass the time away during June.

        1. Which German word means lightning war?
        2. Can you name the rather tall co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show Pointless?
        3. What name links the former rugby playing husband of Charlotte Church to the creator of The Muppets?
        4. Name the last British monarch to be born outside Great Britain?
        5. Which British television series is filmed at Weald and Downland Living Museum in Singleton, West Sussex?
        6. What did Ian Dury and the Blockheads want to be hit with?
        7. Human cells normally contain how many pairs of chromosomes?
        8. What is the name of Joe Biden’s wife?
        9. What’s the name of the tallest of all penguin species?
        10. What name is shared by a fictional plantation and the eldest daughter of Joan Collins?
        11. Designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon, in which decade was the Sydney Opera House formally opened?
        12. Which famous American company has supplied the Presidential helicopter since 1957?
        13. Which actor was dubbed the muscles from Brussels?
        14. In miles per hour, what’s the maximum speed limit that mobility scooters are allowed to do on UK roads? (Hint: if you need a clue, it’s either 8, 12, 14 or 16 mile per hour)
        15. What does a Brannock Device measure?
        16. An ice giant is a giant planet composed mainly of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. There are two ice giants in the Solar System, can you name both?
        17. Who starred in the sitcom Nearest and Dearest with Hylda Baker and played Cannonball Lee in the 1990 film The Krays?
        18. Which Jane Austen novel tells the story of naive young Catherine Morland and her journey to a better understanding of herself and of the world around her?
        19. Which 3-digit number, particularly in America, is cannabis culture slang for marijuana?
        20. Name the world’s lowest lying capital city, it sits an amazing 28 metres below sea level?