A beginners Italian Language Course will begin on  Friday16th March 2018 from 1.30pm – 3.30pm and will  last 17 weeks with the exception of Good Friday ending on Friday 13th July.

The venue is Kensington House near to Maghull Station.

The course will be tutored by Lorenzo Stimolo who tutors 6 separate courses at Aughton and Ormskirk U3A from “beginners” to ” advanced”

The maximum number to attend the course is 15 (we already have 6 members) therefore 9 places are available.

The cost is £5.00 per session with 5 weeks payable in advance every 5 weeks.

Included in this cost is the hire of the tutor , the hire of the hall and tea/coffee in the interval.

Please contact George Birchall on 0151 287 0308 or 07826 048379 or call at the “Architecture for Fun” and “wine Tasting” desk on Tuesday mornings.

Empire Theatre – Behind The Scenes Guided Tour

April 12th 2018 at 11.00am

Maximum 30 places available (25 left)

Cost £4.00 per member , make your own way there.

See David Scott or George Birchall at Architecture for Fun desk

The Modern France group this year are going to look at doing a course on Anglo-French relations across the centuries, which has meant going all the way back to the Hundred Years’ War, when in French eyes England was the natural hereditary enemy (devastation of the French landscape,  burning of Joan of Arc, the  humiliation of the French monarchy as Henry V accompanied by his young French bride and the defeated French king walked hand in hand to Henry’s majestic coronation as the official King of France! )

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The Poetry Reading Group meet on the second Wednesday in every month 10.30-12.30. They have eleven members and the meetings are very informal and friendly.  Each month the group decides the subject for the next month, whether it be a particular poet or subject and then go away and either with the help of the internet or their own poetry books choose a poem which they will read out to the group at the next meeting.

Much discussion follows and it is surprising where the discussion goes!!!!

We would welcome new members but are limited to how many new people we can take as we meet in a members house. Anyone is welcome to come along to test the water and join us  with a cuppa and biscuit.

A big thank you to all my group who came today and worked their brains to the bone exploring the maths in music, wrestling with Pythagorean ratios, major 5ths and strange ways of counting!

Next time we will be exploring pentatonic, jazz and blues scales.

We will also discover why each instrument sounds different, with a look at overtones and resonance.

If you like the sound of this, why not come to our next meeting

Wednesday 7th March  2.30  –  4.30 at Kensington House.

Lots of laughs  –  see you there. More info from Wanda Leach 284 8454 or wleach099@gmail.com

Local history-speakers – March to August 2018

Venue:     Lydiate village hall, Lambshear lane, lydiate, L31 2LA
Time:      2pm and 4pm.
Date:      1st. Tuesday of the month. £2-00 including refreshments.

March 6^th  Mr. Ken Pye  “beer, bails and boozers”
Fun stories from some of Liverpool cities most fascinatng pubs.

April 3^rd   Mr. Ray Obrian – Merseyside entertainers from both sides of the river-charts the background of stars such as Ken Dodd, Arthur Askey, Leonard Rossitor and Patricia Rutledge.

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Collection of Children’s’ books for a school in South Africa.
George is still seeking children’s’ books – age 4 to 9 to be sent to the school to help children learn to read. Please bring any books in to coffee morning or talk to George if you have some and this isn’t possible.

Room set up and clearance Tuesday morning
Could all groups that have tables on Tuesday morning please try to clear these quickly once we finish at 11.15 to enable the set up team who have been at the hall since 8.45 a chance to clear up and go home.

Finally a heartfelt plea from Committee.
From April we will not have a Treasurer and as such we are at massive risk of closure. I can’t express strongly enough how desperate our situation is. We need a Treasurer AND a team of Treasurers’ helpers who can work together and, on a rota, help make the Treasurers’ job easier on a Tuesday morning. So please seriously think about whether you can potentially fulfil one of these roles. You would receive lots of support. Please come and chat to me, Frank, Clive or any Committee member to gain a better understanding of the roles

The treble recorder group could take up to about 5 new members.  You would need to have some very basic knowledge of music or had played an instrument before. We could also take total beginners providing they were committed to catching up with the others in the group. It is only a fun/social thing and there is no emphasis on playing in any professional capacity.

We have also been asked to perform in May at St. Andrews church when they commemorate 100 years end of WW1.  Lyn Maloret