Beginners & Improvers Ukulele

by John PrettyUkulele for FunPosted on Comments are Disabled

 Announcing more Beginners & Improvers Ukulele sessions on the following dates; 7th and 21st of July, 4th and 18th of August and 1st and 15th of September.

Our sessions take place on the first and third Monday of each month from 10:00am to 11:30am in the Byron Bar at the John Godber Centre.

Complete beginners are welcome at all times, just contact John Pretty or Phil Attenborough using the form on the Ukulele page of our website. Or speak to either of us at the members meeting.

The sessions are structured to lead our players on a musical journey starting out with a little knowledge of basic chords and strumming technique and building week by week to extend their knowledge and improve playing. We do this by learning and performing many of the popular songs contained in our exclusive Hucknall u3a Ukulele Songbook. Above all in the finest tradition of the u3a we have lots of laughs along the way.

Do strum  along and join in.

History Group

by WebmasterHistory GroupPosted on Comments are Disabled

The usual indoor meetings for the History Group are at Central Methodist Church at 2pm on the third Wednesday of the month.  The next one indoors is 17th September because usually I need a break during July and August.  However this year we are doing things slightly differently and trying to pull extra outings into this break time.  

Of course in June a coach load of us are off to Lincoln – will they cope I wonder?  

At the next main meeting at John Godber we will continue taking names for the special visit to Nottingham University Museum on 20th August (come to see us in the refreshment room).  

I have also been making enquiries about a visit to the Flight Test Museum in July but at this point I don’t know for certain.  I will keep you informed as soon as I can.

At our usual meeting in May David Amos came to talk to us.  This time we had ‘Industrial Annesley’.  It seemed quite strange to see striking images of the colliery headstocks in our area now when my grand children don’t even know what coal or a coal mine looks like. The image of the miner sitting looking forlorn as Annesley Colliery closed has stayed with me. It seemed strange too to realise that ‘Annesley Sheds’ were actually in Newstead!  To see again the steam trains which we all knew seemed like living, breathing engines as they huffed and puffed along to be followed by the later models and electric Robin Hood Line trains was amazing.  Thank you David.

I am working on next years programme of presentations and visits which – cross fingers – will be ready for the September meeting.

Bye for now,  Maureen

Growing Old Disgracefully

by WebmasterGrowing Old Disgracefully (GOD)Posted on Comments are Disabled

Thirteen members of the Growing old disgracefully group had a taster session of lawn bowling at the Titchfield park bowling green on Wednesday 4th June. Everyone enjoyed the experience and would like to thank members of the bowling club who supported them on their session.

A second group will have a taster session on 2nd July.

Maggie Huckerby

Vegetarian Cookery

by WebmasterVegetarian CookeryPosted on Comments are Disabled

Sadly, I had to cancel the June meeting so the next meeting at St Peter and St Paul’s Church Hall will be on Monday 28th July. Members were still emailed the recipes so they could try them for themselves at home.

This group is now full and cannot take any new members for now.

Anne Wilkinson

Gardening Group

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Last month members enjoyed a lovely and interesting talk from Steffie Shields MBE. Born in Wimbledon she now lives in Lincolnshire and her talk was based on this second biggest county in the country.

Steffie is vice chair of the Lincolnshire Gardens Trust and knows many of the gardens and halls that we all love to visit. She spoke about Gunby Hall, Burghley, (of Capability Brown fame), Grantham Town Gardens and Woolsthorpe Manor, reminding us that the county is not just a flat place but full of fabulous houses and gardens.

There is also Grimsthorpe, Threekingham, Ravesby, Joseph Banks Society Garden in Horncastle, Dawber Garden, Scrivelsby, St James’ Church Louth, Imsby Manor, Marigold Garden Sutton on Sea, Harrington Hall, and the Dutch architecture of Aslackby Manor, to mention but a few! She is a very knowledgeable lady indeed!

Thank you to Helen Harvey for this report.

In July members are visiting the Dorothy Clive Garden in Shropshire.

Meanwhile enjoy your own plots, whatever the size.

Anne