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