🌟. August closure – There will be no u3a Tuesday Coffee Morning on the 29th of August. Please be aware that this closure does not affect any groups. Check with your group leaders to find out when or if they are closing for the summer.
🌟 In accordance with our Health and Safety policy may I remind members that we do not allow dogs at our Coffee Mornings unless they are registered Guide Dogs.
10 members of the rambling group today had a very unexpected lovely day for our 8.5 mile circular ramble starting at Glasson Dock near Lancaster. The forecast had been for intermittent showers, but in spite of the very heavy rain on the M6 on our outward journey we found ourselves in a microclimate of warm sunshine and clear blue skies!
We may have a half price offer for December 3rd. Which Is a Sunday.
Question :Why not?
Answer: Why not indeed?
Love it or hate it, it’s back again. Twenty five tickets held for our group. At £2.50 each
Wednesday Sunday December 3rd . meet at venue 11.30 am. .self guided visit.
( cash only please) Just a small victory if your happy with it?
Book at desk Tuesdays with Maureen or Jan. Nice café on site. More info at desk Tuesdays.
Tickets available online, with half price tickets for Liverpool City Region residents on the first Sunday of every month. Which is what we are, so, we’ve got it.
We are not visiting as a group but this is a brilliant small exhibition ,you wont want to miss. On until September 9th . Closed Sundays & Bank Holidays
A poetic exploration of the relationship between nature, culture, and power in the digital age. Through a series of paintings and sculptures, viewers are invited to contemplate the rise and fall of civilisations in the age of globalisation. The show is constructed around the concept of a Chinese garden with sculptures created from Financial Times newspapers which draw inspiration from traditional Chinese ‘scholar’s rocks’ or ‘spirit stones’. Embodying microcosms of landscapes they are meditative focal points between nature and civilisation.
To-day we are off to Wales, to be more precise Snowdonia, with its’ wonderful 
scenery. We will start our day with a visit to the Llanberis Slate Museum, where we will have a demonstration of Slate splitting, there is also a Museum, Quarrymens’ cottages to visit, which have been moved brick by brick from their original place and rebuilt on site. There is also a short film show, 2 Cafes, souvenir shops and craft outlets. Welsh Slate is much admired and has been exported all over the world. Many roofs boast of it. For lunch you can visit
either the 2 on site Cafes or go into Llanberis where there is plenty of choice. After lunch we will travel on the narrow gauge steam railway on a journey which takes about an hour. Travelling round the edge of Lake Padarn, which traffic can’t access, we will see the amazing Snowdonian views which should by then be in all its Autumnal Glory.
WHEN?? Wednesday 25th October 2023. Depart 8.30am Ret.6pm. Price £26 includes train journey. Seats will be on sale at our table on Tuesday 8th August 2023.
New Group – Indoor Curling
No doubt you’ve all watched (if only a bit) the game of Curling at the Winter Olympics and been fascinated by the furious brushing of the ice by the team members as they try to ensure their stone gets closest to the ‘jack’.
Well, we can’t offer you an ice rink (so no brushing needed) but we can offer you a chance to play Indoor Curling at an u3a near you!! Continue reading
Report to follow.
A group of sixteen Stramblers met at Yarrow Valley Country Park Visitor Centre on 27th July looking forward to a pleasant walk around the area. The weather forecast indicated that after some initial rain it would brighten up. The walk started from the car park where we noticed an interesting face carved on one of the nearby trees.
Anne outlined a little of the history of the valley, which was a large, industrialised area in the 18th century and beyond. It was a centre for bleaching, dyeing, calico printing and mining. Richard Arkwright developed the water spinning frame later named after him and formed part of the start of the Industrial Revolution. Arkwright’s frame made many of the local workers redundant and he eventually had to move away because of local hostility. Continue reading
Fridays talk with our guest speaker Frank Carlyle was a great success. It was all about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot (with an unusual twist to the tale).
Frank as usual was both interesting and amusing and we will no doubt be inviting him again in the future.
Frank will be this month’s speaker and his talk will be about Cromwell and the English Civil War at the usual place Kensington House at Station Road 21st July 2.30 pm