Please note that coffee is served from 10.00 am

Wednesday 19 October at 10.30 am

Dr Christopher Fifield, who is a conductor and music historian, lecturer and broadcaster, will talk on “The Life and Voice of Kathleen Ferrier”, England’s greatest lyric contralto and her career in concerts, on records, on the radio and in the opera house. 


Wednesday 16 November at 10.30 am

The speaker is Pauline Rowson, author of Marine Mystery novels.  She became a published crime writer in 2006 and now has 7 crime thriller novels under her belt and another due out this year.  She has been entertaining audiences for some time with tales of her life as an author and how she writes her marine mystery crime novels.

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Groups

       Strollers

Thursday 27 October

(2-3 mile gentle walks with a pub at the end)

Members take turns to organise the walks and book the pub.  Meet at car park Hampton Inn, near St Thomas’s Bridge on the London Road at 10.00 am.

If you are coming, please let me know on Monday 24 or Tuesday 25 October.  New members are welcome.

Aileen Manchee (01722 742368) 


Striders

Thursday 3 November

Please meet at the Royal Oak, Great Wishford (GR SU 080 353) for a 10.00 am start.

The walk starts over Chain Drove giving fine views, downhill to Stapleford, with a pleasant riverside return through the Till and Wylye valleys – about 5 miles.

Please contact Marilyn Howard on  01722 743486 by Tuesday 1 November, if you are joining us and would like to have lunch at the Royal Oak. 


Walking Group

Thursday 27 October

Please meet at the car park of Highcliffe Café (EX 00 22 GR 216 933) at 10.15 am for a leisurely walk to Mudeford Quay, using the ferry to the Beach Café for a coffee break, then returning to Highcliffe Café for lunch.

Please ring me no later than Tuesday 25 October on 07786 302008, leaving your name and number. 
 
Making Your Own Website for FREE

I still have spaces on this course and it is not too late to start. The next session is on 21 October at 10.00 am until noon.

The next after that is 18 November and then every 4 weeks (not monthly).

Give me a call on 01722 501218      

Peter Read 

Science & Technology

Monday 31 October at 10.00 am

Harnham Memorial Hall, Watersmeet Lane, East Harnham £1 on the door to cover costs : Just turn up. 
“Experimental Aircraft” with Alan Goodes, who will research aircraft of the 1960’s era. 


Café  Scientifique

Tuesdays at 7.30 pm

A forum for debating science issues at Salisbury Rugby Club, Castle Road.

Meetings are free and open to all.

Doors open 7.00 pm with bar/café  open for light refreshments. 
 


Rummikub

A very successful initial meeting of the Rummikub group took place on Wednesday 5 October.  However, we have been offered an alternative, cheaper hall.  So we are moving to Alderbury Village Hall for our next meeting on Wednesday 2 November.  The hall is on the right as you drive out from Salisbury.  It has an attached bowling alley and is the one we used for the Joint U3A Craft Lunch.

Any new Rummikubers will be welcome.

Brenda Leach and Maureen Pardy 
 


Computer Group

The first meeting of the computer group will be on Wednesday 9 November at 10.00 am at Laverstock Village Hall, Park Road (off Duck Lane), Laverstock, Salisbury, SP1 1RQ.

Subjects we could cover are areas such as printing and print options, e-mail with photos, e-mail addresses in groups, internet safety and anti-virus protection, Skype, buying on the internet, etc etc.  For the first meeting I suggest we keep to the basics and study e-mails with photo attachments, but I am open to all suggestions.

This group is open to all and you do not have to register – just turn up when you can.  For the first few meetings, I suggest we work at starters level for the main subjects, but there will be time for general questions and problem solving.  For subsequent meetings, we can decide amongst ourselves what the programme should be.

We do have to cover the expenses of hiring the hall and the heating and later the cost of accessing the internet, so we will have to charge £1 per meeting.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Neil Russell 

E-mail: sarumu3a@hotmail.co.uk 

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Sarum U3A Visits

Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Gardens:

Monday 17 October (yes, next week!)

This afternoon and evening Visit promises to be a super event with a guided tour of the gardens, your choice of refreshments and supper/dinner in the Colonial Restaurant and then experience the lights being switched on in the gardens, as dusk falls.  Abbotsbury call this ‘magical’ and you can be part of it if you wish to take up one (or two) of the few places left.

Please phone me asap if you are interested. 


Christmas Market:

Friday 25 November 


In the morning we visit the Spinnaker Tower on Gunwharf Quay that is largely devoted to outlet shopping and where we will have lunch.  After which, we go to experience ‘A Victorian Festival of Christmas’ held in the Portsmouth Dockyard where ‘there will be snow in the air and underfoot as you stroll along our Dickensian-style street before venturing onward to the beautifully ornate Fagin’s Tavern’ which provides entertainment of that period.  There will be  ‘Glorious Festive Food’ to sample and buy for your own festive feast plus over 140 stalls in a bazaar of arts, crafts, food and drink where you might discover unique Christmas gifts for your loved ones.

This is the largest Christmas Market on the South Coast and your ticket also includes entry to the attractions of Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, including access to HMS Warrior, HMS Victory, and boat trips of the Harbour, to name but a few. 
Phone me to book or see me at the Coffee Morning if you would like to join this last Visit of 2011.  Cost £32.00 that includes coach, entry to two venues, driver gratuity, etc.  Lunch cost down to individuals. 
Please ring me any day after 10.00am if you have any queries or want to put your name down for any of our Visits.

Chris Perry, Sarum U3A Visits Organiser

            01722 781224       or  chrissieperrysarum@hotmail.co.uk 

Visit to the 2012 Olympic Venue at Stratford East, London

Sarum U3A Group on Canary Wharf, happily replete with lunch : 15 September 2011 
We set off at the crack of dawn; well it was to me, to go on our visit to the Olympic site on Wednesday 15 September.  I wanted to go because I felt I should know what my money was being spent on!  Hazel Docherty, our Blue Badge Guide, who subsequently turned out to be the Star of the Day, accompanied us.

Our journey was broken by a short stop at Fleet Services for those of us who were still fast asleep and not talkable to, for coffee and the necessary.  As we made our way into London and the Docklands, Hazel kindly let us ‘come to’ gently and then we had the best lesson on the history of London that I have ever been privileged to be part of.  This lady has an encyclopaedic knowledge of London.  There was a marked silence as she regaled us with a stream of historical facts and anecdotes – and all without the help of a tiny note.  She also navigated the coach through all the back streets in Docklands (impressed is not the word) to our stop for lunch at the Rum & Sugar restaurant on Canary Wharf.

After lunch (the excellent cost negotiated by Chris) we travelled on our way to the Olympic Site.  I see where the money has gone now.  It was a real eye opener.  Eat your heart out Beijing!  The main Olympic stadium is like something out of the future (and to think that after the Games, they will remove a couple of tiers for general use).  The Velodrome is shaped like a gigantic skateboard ramp and the whole area has been rejuvenated.  I wonder how much the athletes’ village accommodation will eventually sell for?  I hope the locals get their fair share.  And all this with a very green agenda.

We made our way out of London via Greenwich.  We had had a long day but a superb one.  The silence on the way back was punctuated only by the sound of heavy breathing and the occasional snuffle (not me!)

We arrived home tired but happy and with a round of applause for Chris, our intrepid organiser, and of course the amazing Hazel, we tottered off homeward.  (Hazel was to be up at 5.00 am the next day to go to Dover and collect a cruise group for a guided day in London.  Lucky them.)

Pat Read


Sarum Wine Tour

Our second wine tour will be to the Rioja region of Spain.  It will be for six days and depart on 7 October 2012.  Included will be many tastings of wine and much nibbling of tapas.

The cost will be about £575 (£80 single supplement) and it will start and end in Salisbury.

For further details, please contact Maureen Pardy on 01722 504295


Salisbury U3A Outings

Thursday 13 October 2011

Afternoon visit to Longleat House.  A magnificent property regarded as the best example of Elizabethan architecture in Britain built in 1580 and the home of the 7^th Marquis of Bath. Surrounded by 900 acres of Capability Brown designed parkland. Treasures within include paintings by Tintoretto and Wooton, exquisite Flemish tapestries, fine French furniture and elaborate ceilings. Visit concluded with a Cream Tea in the Cellars Restaurant.

Cost £17.00 to include coach travel, driver gratuity, entry to House and Grounds and Cream Tea.

Depart Millstream Coach Park 12.45 pm and London Road Park & Drive 1.00 pm. Depart from Longleat 5.00 pm  BOOKING NOW! 


Tuesday 29 November 2011

To the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton for Mozart’s Don Giovanni.  BOOK NOW! 


Thursday 8 December 2011

Visit the American Museum near Bath in the morning followed by an afternoon in Bath for the Christmas Market.

Cost £21.00 to include coach transport, driver gratuity, entry and guided tour and an afternoon visit to the Christmas Market.

Depart London Road Park & Drive 8.00 am,

Millstream Coach Park 8.15 am,  Wilton outside Italianate Church 8.30 am.

Depart Bath 5.30 pm.  BOOK NOW! 


Tuesday 27 March 2012

To Mayflower Theatre, Southampton for Verdi’s La Traviata.  BOOK NOW! 


Cruising in 2012?

Ask for a Cruise Pack today! 

If you are interested in any outings, please contact John Ewington, Flat 5 Arlington House, Bourne Avenue, Salisbury SP1 1LS.

Tel: 01722 500699


Contributions

Please send all contributions by mid-day on 2^nd Tuesday in the month (8 November) to the Editor: Judith Copeland, Field End, Hackthorne Corner, Durrington SP4 8AS.

Phone 01980 655665 or by email to enjay666@btinternet.co