Welcome to New Members
Michael Broadbent, Elaine Davies and Roz Merritt.
Message to all members – please make sure that any change of address and/or telephone number is given to me as soon as possible.
Tony Munday, Membership Secretary
01980 671069 or ajmunday@btinternet.com
From the Chairman
Dear Friends
The August Coffee Morning will be held in St Francis Church, rather than St Francis Hall. This is for the month of August only and is in response to a request from the Church. Parking is in the same car park as usual and the entrance at the side of the church in Beatrice Road has level access. The Coffee Morning will otherwise be as normal, except that the seats in the church will be more comfortable! In September we return to St Francis Hall.
The joint Salisbury U3As event entitled A CRAFTY LUNCH (featuring displays and demonstrations from the various art and craft groups) is scheduled for Thursday 16 September from midday to 3pm at Alderbury Village Hall. The sit-down lunch comprises cold meats (beef, turkey & ham), quiches (salmon & broccoli, cheese & tomato), salads (Waldorf, carrot & sultana, mixed green with cherry tomatoes, coleslaw), hot new potatoes, roll & butter and puddings (apple pie, chocolate cake, fruit salad). The cost is £10 per person; drinks are available from a cash bar; there is ample parking; and bus lines 34, 36 and X7 stop right outside the hall.
Tickets are on sale at the July and August Coffee Mornings at the Notice Board desk. Hope to see you there to meet new friends from Salisbury and Spire U3As.
With best wishes
Gordon Pardy
Coffee Mornings
Wednesday 18 August at 10.30 am
Mrs Sue Dewy will talk on “The Plains Indians of North America – Sioux”
Groups
Your Groups for 2010-2011
Your group choices will be available at the July coffee morning. They will be posted to you immediately after the 21st if you are not there.
My job has been made possible by the many group leaders and others who have offered to take extra groups in order to accommodate everyone. Some groups had three times as many applicants as places. My heart-felt thanks to all those who have made it possible for nearly everyone to have the opportunities they asked for. I started with 102 disappointed people and now all but 13 people have all the subjects they asked for.
Many of you will find an asterisk and “see enclosed note” by a subject and find an extra slip of paper in your envelope. This means you are in an alternative / extra group. Most of these are run by the original group leader and a few by volunteers who will run the same programme in collaboration with the group leader.
Please remember to contact the group leader nearer the time to confirm the start date and that you will be able to attend.
Linda
Creating Your Own Website
Peter Read is running this course starting on 24 September.
If you are interested or for further information, please contact Peter on 01722 501218 or peterjread@ntlworld.com
Walking Group
Thursday 29 July
Great Durnford-Wilsford-Springbottom Farm
Meet and park in street between pub and church in Great Durnford Ex 130/GR SU 136 382 to set out at 10.00 am for a 5-mile walk. Afterwards we shall have lunch at the Wheatsheaf pub in Lower Woodford. If you would like to join us, please ring Irene and Alan (322289) by Tuesday 27 July.
Irene
Sarum U3A Outing to Boyton Farm
Wednesday 25 August
We are arranging our very own Sarum U3A outing to Boyton Farm – The Ginger Piggery.
We will have an extensive guided tour of the Farm to ooh and aah and meet the wonderful Tamworth Pigs (especially the piglets!) for which Boyton Farm is so famous. From the tractor and trailer you will see the Sussex cows, Poll Dorset and Hampshire Down sheep and the rolling farmland which runs from the Wylye River to the top of the South Wessex Downs. We may also be able to visit the dairy. The tour of the farm is very comprehensive. You can find out about the history and farming processes of this traditional farm first-hand from retired teacher and farmer Caroline Wheatley-Hubbard.
Conservation is taken very seriously at Boyton Farm and on the tour you will see many examples of the wild flora and fauna that Boyton Farm makes great efforts to protect and encourage. There is a wonderful farm shop with lots of home-produced meat and other goodies.
The tour lasts approximately 2 hours and will start at 5.00 pm. There will be a BBQ at 7.00 pm after the tour. Cost is £10 per person. Restricted to 20 people.
Details at the next meeting.
Advance bookings from Pat Read (01722 417466)
Joint U3A Outings & Visits
Full details are posted on the notice board at the monthly coffee mornings.
Wednesday 13 October
Visit Kingston Lacy House & Gardens followed by leisure time for shopping and sightseeing in Bournemouth.
Cost £18 (NT members £10 – bring Membership card!) to include coach travel, driver gratuity and entry to House and Gardens. Depart Wilton 9.45 am; Millstream Coach Park 10.00 am, Tesco’s 10.15 am. Return from Bournemouth 5.30 pm.
Friday 3 December
Visit Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum. Booking from September
If you are interested in any outings/visits, please contact John Ewington (500699)
Contributions
Please send all contributions by mid-day on 2nd Tuesday in the month (10 August) to the Editor: Judith Copeland, Field End, Hackthorne Corner, Durrington SP4 8AS. Phone 01980 655665 or by email to: enjay666@btinternet.com