by Rotherham U3A | Jul 30, 2018 | Education and Learning, Rotherham, U3A
In this country, August has long been associated with annual holidays. Whether a week or two away from home, enjoying sun on your face and feeling sand beneath your toes, spending days doing interesting things, completing neglected everyday chores or making time...
by Rotherham U3A | Jul 6, 2018 | Education and Learning, Hobbies, Rotherham, Social Group, U3A
Like people, Summer Fayres vary in character and come in all shapes and sizes. At one extreme they are serious, earnest affairs, small in stature but nonetheless capable of packing a punch. Others are jolly, loud, larger-than-life, perhaps more generously proportioned...
by Rotherham U3A | Jun 4, 2018 | Education and Learning, Rotherham, U3A
Would you believe it? Met Office statistics show rainfall this year was close to average and rank winter 2017 to 2018 as the second sunniest since records began. Not my impression at all. It was almost mid-May before the soil was sufficiently warm to consider...
by Gainsborough U3A | May 16, 2018 | Education and Learning, Gainsborough, U3A
A group of 18, rather apprehensive, Gainsborough and District U3A members made their way to The Arialtrail in Scunthorpe, basically to test themselves and to have some fun. Their ages ranged from early 60s to 87. They are part of a group called the ‘Buccaneers’, whose...
by Rotherham U3A | May 11, 2018 | Education and Learning, Rotherham, U3A
Remembering and forgetting are two sides of the same coin really. Between the two faces of the coin is a lifetime of different experiences and emotions, some close to the surface, others half hidden. All it takes is a spin of the coin, and old memories and pleasures...
by Rotherham U3A | Apr 5, 2018 | Education and Learning, Rotherham, U3A
If someone asked you “What’s a rapper?” Would you, like me, imagine a musician or poet? But a rapper is also a long, narrow, flexible steel blade with a handle at each end; one handle fixed, the other rotating. In the 19th century, rappers replaced rigid blades used...
