Badminton group celebration

On Wednesday Jan 11th, members of the U3A Badminton group said thanks to Marj Grundy, who has been Team Leader of the group since it’s start 10 years ago.
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Held at The Cherry House, Ormskirk, the evening was a great success with wonderful food and more importantly good company.
Marj will continue to play the game she loves and will have to put up with Colin Gore as her replacement,  it will be a hard act to follow.
She was presented with flowers and an M+S gift voucher.
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Colin Gore.

Discussion group After Christmas lunch

Reminder that instead of our usual meeting in January, we will be having our

“After Christmas” lunch on Thursday 26th January at the Bootle Arms.

Meet at 12.30 at the venue. If anyone hasn’t given their name to Brian, don’t worry, the numbers are elastic and you can still turn up on the day.  2 for 1 menu.

Looking forward to seeing you all  –  good company, good food and some good discussions. What more could you ask?

Maths 4 Fun

We had a great meeting to start the new year exploring 4, 6, 8, 12 and 20 sided dice monopoly-board-game-1and the games they are used for. Hope you have all now honed your Monopoly skills and can beat the grandchildren hollow. If anyone still has bored youngsters to look after the best non-electronic game for the second year running seems to be Blokus, lots of coloured pieces on a scrabble type board. Takes around 30 seconds to learn, totally addictive for young and old alike, and full of hidden maths skills!

Next time – Wednesday 1st February – we will look at Maths in Art and discover the rules of perspective and composition that the classical masters knew. We will see how Fibonacci and the Golden Section appear from Michelangelo to Picasso and Mondrian, and how Escher managed to break the rules so successfully.

If you would like to join us please bring a pencil, ruler and rubber with you.

Remember         No Stress       Lots of Laughs

NORDIC WALKING

Nordic Walkers

FIRST WALK FOR 2017

Happy New Year to all our walkers.  Just a reminder that our first walk for 2017 will take place on

Monday 16th January 2017

Time  :  6.30pm;

Place: Maghull Baptist Church, Hall Lane, Maghull

(The Active Sefton Friday walk starts on 20th January 2017 at Crosby Leisure Centre)

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NORDIC WALKING – Training courses

 

Nordic WalkingNORDIC WALKING TRAINING COURSES for 2017

Crosby course;
Sat 18th & Sun 19th March
11am – 1pm at
Crosby Leisure Centre

Southport course;
Tue 28th & Wed 29th Mar
1 – 3pm at
Dunes Splash World

The courses are free with qualified instructor and poles provided. You will need to do the course in order to take part in the advertised Nordic walks with our U3A and Active Sefton.

Places are limited, please contact the Active Sefton team on 0151 934 2824 or walking@sefton.gov.uk

HAPPY NORDIC WALKING,

Ian

Maths 4 Fun update

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We had a great meeting in December when we explored logic puzzles, played some games, and tried to work out how to get Father Christmas home on time.

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Answers and best solutions will be available at our next meeting which will be this Wednesday, 4th January, 2.30  –  4.30 when we will look at dice, how to win at Monopoly, and the important numbers of the national lottery.

All welcome   No stress   Plenty of laughs   See you there