For the second time in 2017 the Improvers’ Bridge Group set off for a four day bridge holiday in St. Anne’s.
The hotel was resplendent (as were we) in its Christmas finery and the food was up to its usual excellent standard.
Each evening session began with cocktails followed by a four course meal and on one occasion we were visited by Father Christmas and his Elves. His bulging sack held a surprise for each of us as we were handed our present for being good all year!!
A date for your diary, 20th – 24th September 2018
Join us for a ‘Highlights of Hampshire’ five day/four night break next September staying at the 4* Norton Hotel just outside Winchester. Traveling by executive coach our break is on a half board basis at a cost of £425.00 (before the group discount) with single rooms available at a supplement of £80.00 for the first six rooms. Additional rooms may well be subject to a higher supplement.
Our varied tour includes the city of Winchester; the Historic Dockyard at Portsmouth, home to The Mary Rose and the HMS Victory; a scenic drive through the New Forest to visit Beaulieu, including the National Motor Museum, Palace House and Gardens, Beaulieu Abbey and the World of Top Gear – plus more!
Booking opens on the 3rd October at the Holiday Desk For additional info please click here or pick up one of our printed fliers or ring Jane on 526 2530
Hedd Wyn – Un o Feirdd Rhyfel Cymru One of the War Poets of Wales
Ganwyd Ellis Humphrey Evans ar y 13fed o Ionawr 1887 ym Mhen Lan yng nghanol Trawsfynydd, Sir Feirionydd. Roedd yr hynaf o unarddeg o blant a anwyd i Evan ac Mary Evans. Yn 1887 symydodd y teulu i Yr Ysgwrn, fferm rhyw ddau fillitir tu allan i Traws. Cafodd Ellis adysg drwy’r ysgol ac yr ysgol Sul ond bu rhaid iddo adel yr ysgol pan yr oedd yn pedwar ar ddeg i ddechrau gweithio fel bugail ar y fferm. O oed ifanc roedd yn amlwg fod gab Elllis dalent am farddoniaeth. Roedd eisoes wedi cyfansoddi ei gerddi cyntaf erbyn un ar ddeg oed. Cymerodd ran mewn eisteddfodau o pedwar ar bymtheg oed ac enillodd ei gadair gyntaf yn Penbedw ym 1917. Ym 1910, cymerodd yr enw barddol Hedd Wyn. Enillodd Gadeiriau yn 1913 a 1915, ac yn yr un flwyddyn ysgrifennodd ei gerdd gyntaf ar gyfer Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru-Eryri, awdl i’r Wyddfa.
Margaret Walton got her first taste for Art when she was nine years old when she made a copy of a portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh at school. Over the next 56 years Margaret taught herself how to paint and through it bring much pleasure to herself and others.
The Glass Workshop group epitomizes what the U3A really means; you have an idea, you find a course to get you started and you pass on your knowledge to others. John Jackson has a love of glass and a love of design; put them together and you have works of art.
Môr-ladron Cymraeg – The Welsh Pirates (scroll down for our English translation)
Yn ein dosbarth Cymraeg rydym wedi bod yn gwneud dipyn o waith ymchwil i rai o’r môr-ladron a oedd yn Gymru.
Mae dau yn hysbys’n weddol dda i ni drwy straeon a glywsom yn ein plentyndod a’r ddau yma yw Barti Ddu a Harri Morgan.
MÔr-Ladron Cymraeg – The Welsh Pirates
Six day/five night break to the Netherlands from the 24th – 29th June 2018
We will be staying at the 4* Fletcher Hotel just outside Amersfroot. Excursions include a full day in Amsterdam; a sightseeing day including Marken, where we will experience a clog making demonstration, a boat trip to Volendam, a tour of Edam with a cheese tasting and a visit to Zaanse Schans, the home of windmills.
We will have a tour of the De Haar Castle – the largest and most luxurious castle in the Netherlands, with time to visit Amersfroot itself; a city where Mondrian grew up. We plan a guided tour to the Dutch Open Air Museum Arnhem with time to explore this very pretty city afterwards. The cost is £485.00 (before the group discount) with a single supplement of £70.00 approx for the first ten singles. Booking opens on the 4th of July.
There was many a member who was secretly worried about our ‘Fun Night’. Some who worried they might not be able to join in the singing, some who thought their art work would let them down when it came to the illustrating a proverb, some who worried that their Laurence Olivier gene would fail to kick in when it was their turn to have ago at the improvised drama and many who thought that their knowledge of welsh History wouldn’t stand up to close scrutiny …….. but!
In the end everyone had a brilliant time. No embarrassing moments, no being tongue tied and no worrying about saying it in Welsh as saying it in English did just as well. Continue reading
