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TORRIDGE THIRD AGE GROUP www.torridgeu3a.btck.co.uk
NEWSLETTER Issue 489 January 2020
This month’s notice board:
January Lunch :
At our lunch on 15th January our speaker will be Robert Hesketh on the subject of “Devon
Place Names”. Robert Hesketh is a freelance writer and photographer with a strong interest in
local history. He has published over 50 Devon, Dorset and Somerset titles and written numerous
illustrated articles for Dartmoor Magazine, The Countryman, Country Walking and other publica-
tions. He also contributes photographs of Devon Landscapes and Devon people to many maga-
zines and has given talks to many organisations in our area.
Would members attending the Royal for the meal please register BEFORE going into the lounge
or bar. Members should arrive between 11:15 and 11:50 and be seated in time for the speaker
at 12:00. Lunch follows. Please book this lunch as below by Sunday 12th January.
Monthly Lunch Booking
Please contact: Helen Summerhayes
(Email or text preferred )
Please advise Helen If you are unable to attend, having booked lunch in order that the ho-
tel can be given the correct numbers. Payment to the hotel on the day can be made by
cash, card or cheque (payable The Royal Hotel). If you are paying by cheque you will need
to present your cheque guarantee card, this is essential and cheques will not be accepted
without it.
Admin charge (toward speaker cost) - £1
Chairman Secretary Membership Secretary Editor
Dennis Pavitt Carolyn Kelly Anne Budd Graham Thompson
We welcomed the following new members in December: John Cowell, Julia Cowell,
Susan Hunt
Future U3A Lunches :
Feb 19th Speaker: Jonathan Brownelle talking about: Trump that
Mar 18th Speaker: Paul Rendell talking about: Tales of a Dartmoor Guide
Apr 15th Speaker: Adrienna Hesketh talking about: Musical Presentation
Lunch will be 2 courses plus coffee, ordered on arrival, at £10.25 per person.
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Miscellaneous
All copy for publication in the February edition of the newsletter, written please (by email) by 31st
Jan, to
the editor. If you do not receive your electronic version, please contact Graham Thompson, Any que-
ries regarding the printed Newsletter distribution should be made to Sue Beer,
Group leader changes.
Please send note of any change in name or contact details to the group leader co-ordinator Roger Drew
Upper Room payments
Payments due for the Upper Room should be passed to the Treasurer Sue Beer,
Proposed events
If you are planning to hold an event, please contact Roger Drew first to ensure that there are no clashes.
Availability & Booking of the Upper Room
For details, see website, programme in Upper room or contact Roger Drew
The Appledore Singers performing at the U3A Christmas Lunch
Well, Christmas is over for another year. So too is Brexmas 2019…
Apparently 2020 is the Year of the Rat according to the Chinese zodiac, and the element is metal.
So this is the Year of the Metal Rat. Without dwelling on this vision of robotic rodents, the Editor and
Torridge U3A Committee wish you all a:
Happy New Year !
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If interested, come along and join us to play, make plays
and do performance. We meet weekly on Wednesdays
at 2pm at Pollyfield. Maureen Lamb
Monday Badminton Group.
Our group meets at 10am on Monday’s at the Atlantic
Racquets Centre for an hour . We have vacancies for
anyone interested in joining us. All equipment is sup-
plied and no experience is necessary. Our group is very
friendly and you will feel welcome plus we are sure you
will enjoy the exercise and company too.
Phone me on my mobile if you would like to give us a
try . RALPH.
Details for the Birdwatching Group January meeting have
already been sent to members. This Group is now full
but we are happy to start a waiting list if there is a de-
mand.
No book this month as we decamped to the Golf Club
for some festive cheer! A good year for the group, a
varied selection of books but we did seem to spend a
long time in Europe walking with a brown suitcase! Too
many World War 2 stories. Our book for January is '
Once upon a river ' by Diane Setterfield. (at No. 40 )
Joan Lock
There was no meeting for Book Group 2 in December.
The Mobile Library by David Whitehouse
This book left us with many queries. The central charac-
ter is a 12 year old boy who acted more like an eight
year old. Having lost his mother in an horrific accident
he is appallingly neglected by his father and stepmoth-
er. He survives by collecting physical memories of his
mother, believing she will return.
He is befriended by the cleaner of a mobile library and
her mentally disabled daughter, who decides after re-
ceiving hate gossip, that they should flee in the library
van. Picking up an army deserter they head to Scotland to
his former home before fleeing south where finally they
are surrounded by police.
The boy’s character is very detailed in the description of
his coping mechanisms and is quite heart rending. Many
themes are touched on, child abuse, grieving, fantasy su-
perhero, PTSD, unconditional love....these characters are
all misfits in society. The finale makes way for a ‘family‘
coming together. We felt they deserved some happiness in
their lives. Jo Sampson
Our December read was suitably seasonal - The Winter
Ghosts by Kate Mosse. What a relief to have a readable
account of a sensible length for a change. The novel is a
ghost story – with romantic elements. The central charac-
ter, Freddie Watson is a tortured soul, still mentally devas-
tated by his elder brother’s death ten years earlier in WW1.
Seeking relief via a car journey through the Pyrenees of
southwest region of France, the wintery conditions and
increasingly icy roads result in a crash. He sets off to seek
help and shelter in an isolated local village and this is
where the ghost story element emerges, as present time
slips into the village’s bloody 14th century past. Meeting
the beautiful Fabrissa at a village get-together he gains a
vivid insight into the religious intolerance of the
times ,where the Roman Catholic church is determined to
eliminate the minority Cathar sect. When their enemy de-
scends on the village, those villagers that can escape, seek
refuge in local mountain caves. Their sanctuary becomes
their tomb when the caves are sealed up by their pursuers
(based on factual historical events). We enjoyed the novel,
in particular its sequential planning and its use of descrip-
tion. However, some of us felt the ghost aspect of the
book was somewhat contrived and were incredulous re-
garding the ability of a sick and injured man to clamber
about the mountains, in the depths of winter. Next month
marks a change from fiction to non-fiction when we read
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelli-
gent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
We meet every Tuesday and Friday evening in the Upper
Room at 7pm. We have a few spaces and any member who
would like an evening of bridge and banter please come
along.
For more information contact Ann Mayne as above
GROUP REPORTS
Drama—SHOESTRING PLAYERS Group contact Maureen Lamb
Book Group 1. Group contact Sheila Wright
Book Group 2. Group contact Hazel McLellan
Book Group 3. Group contact Jo Sampson
Bird Watching Group Group Contact:
Badminton—contacts
Monday session: Ralph Bennett on
Wednesday session: Stephen Skinner on
Book Group 4. Group contact David or Hazel McLellan
Bridge for Improvers. Group contact John Krey
Canasta . Group contact Ann Mayne
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No meetings in December for the craft groups
Group not meeting until the third week in Jan.2020
Alison
No meetings in December for the craft groups
Group not meeting until the third week in Jan.2020
Alison
The croquet season has now finished for 2019. The new
season will hopefully start in April 2020 so watch this
space.
Thursday 9 January 2020 at 12noon.
Black Horse Inn, High Street, Great Torrington EX38
8HNTel: 01 805 622 121.
www.theblackhorsedevon.co.uk
Suggest you
park in the car
park by the
Bowling Club,
then walk
through the
market and the
pub will be
across the road
on your left.
If you have not
signed the at-
tendance book
and wish to attend please contact Lesley or Colin by Sun-
day 5 January.
We enjoyed our
December meet-
ing with a Christ-
mas theme,
where we relaxed
with a buffet,
raffle and good
company.
We all at the Dig-
ital Camera
Group would like
to wish everyone
in the Torridge
U3A, a Prosperous New Year with successful group activ-
ities. We look forward to continuingly see our own group
grow with new ideas and the support of our members in
2020. We have no vacancies.
Due to the many people expected at our usual meeting
venue of the Royal Hotel during the Festive Season, we
held our December meeting in an upper room at 'The Lit-
tle Coffee Cup' in Mill Street, kindly made available for
our exclusive use by that establishment.
As has happened on a number of occasions, we dis-
cussed the NHS and with particular reference to Mental
Health which has suffered disproportionately. It was
hoped that whoever won the General Election, the NHS
would be better funded, better organised and better and
more training opportunities provided rather than have to
rely so heavily on other countries for trained personnel
and for them to then work within the NHS at the expense
of and loss to those others countries who in some cases
are short of medical staff themselves. Extra funding may
help retain staff and help upgrade equipment and sys-
tems but providing trained indigenous staff will take sev-
eral years, so improving the NHS in a number of ways
needs to receive very urgent action.
We went on to consider some of the vast financial dis-
parities between what most receive and others are paid in
various areas of employment generally. This is another
area that needs to be addressed but care needs to be tak-
en so that those who are already taxed heavily are not
squeezed to the extent that they decide to move abroad
and we would then not only lose the tax they pay but
their expertise. The same applies to companies too, who
may be incentivised to move abroad. On the other hand
there are major, largely foreign companies making a lot
of money in the UK but due to creative accounting have
paid less than a fair amount of Tax. This is another long
running matter that needs to be rectified.
It was decided to cancel our meeting on 1st January as
some members intend to be be with their families. So our
next meeting will be on 5th February 2020, back at the
Royal Hotel Bideford.
I take the opportunity to wish all members of our Group
and indeed all U3A members, a Happy Christmas and a
Prosperous New Year.
After around 14 years with Group 1 and approximately 7
with Group 2, I will be retiring from leading both groups
at the end of this year due to increasing health problems.
I am happy to say that both Drawing Groups 1 and 2 are
aiming to continue as before under their own steam.
They will meet as usual in The Upper Room at the same
times as at present. Judy Seabright will be the key con-
tact for Group 1 and Sue Smith will be the same for Group
2. Both groups are currently full. I am pleased that each
group will continue and I wish that their work maintains
their current high standard. Best wishes to both groups
and keep up your high standards! John Wright
Devon Inns. Group contact: Colin or Lesley Hunt
Digital Camera Group. Group contact: Dawn Parr
Crafty Cards. Group contact: Alison Tamplin or Car-
olyn Kelly
Croquet (Braunton). Group contact: Anne Young
Creative Craft Class. Group contact: Alison Tamplin or Carolyn
Kelly
Discussion Group. Group contact Barry Gown
Drawing Group 1 & 2 For further details or to be added to wait-
ing list contact John Wright
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Folk dancing.. We have enjoyed our last two meetings. I
was on holiday for one of them and you all turned up to
hear what a really good caller and musician sounded like
when my son Chris taught you some different dances.
However it was back to reality with me in charge last
time! We start 2020 on Monday the 13th January at
2.Opm in Northam Hall. We would love it if you joined
us. Shirley Jewell.
No update received this month
The enjoyable garden outings have been well supported
this year, thank you to all who have participated. The
next Garden report will be in February 2020.
December was eventful for our group. A group of musi-
cians from Barnstaple U3A came to one meeting and ac-
companied our singing of German Christmas carols and
songs, which kept us (more or less) in tune. For our sec-
ond meeting of the month, we went to the home of a Ger-
man group member to celebrate Advent. The house was
decorated with festive greenery and candles, and we en-
joyed typically German Advent goodies like Stollen and
gingerbread, washed down with mulled wine brewed by
our hostess; a very good advent experience!
This month being December we did not meet as our
meeting would have fallen on Boxing Day, and I feel none
of us would really want to leave our cold Christmas Tur-
keys and yet more mince pies for a History group meet-
ing..
After 4 years of running the History group and then
handing it over to David, only to get the group back
when David died, I have felt that I need a rest as I have
run out of ideas. As no one has yet come forward, this
group will be temporary closed. Any help willingly accept-
ed.
For any more information about the History group the
leader remains
Our last walk of 2019 was designed with Christmas
Lunch at the Royal Hotel in mind. So, armed with histori-
cal notes, David and Hazel with Pat led 23 of us around
East-the-Water sites of geographical and historical inter-
est. To most of us the information was completely new
and those who were more familiar with the area added
extra relevant comments. The views looking towards
Bideford and surrounding area are stunning. This was
especially true of our coffee break up at Chudleigh Fort
which was enhanced by answering a surprise quiz of
cryptic clues, as well as drinking coffee. Lunch at the
Royal Hotel was excellent and all departed looking for-
ward to our next walk, see Third Friday Walkers entry,
destination Topsham on January 17th. (IH)
The next First Friday Morning Walk is on 7th Febru-
ary and is from Appledore to Westward Ho!, follow-
ing the coast path as much as possible. We will meet at
10.30 in the Main Appledore Car Park where there are
public toilets. The 21A* bus to Appledore leaves Bide-
ford Quay at 09.45, arriving in Appledore at 10.03. The
next bus is at 10.15*, arriving at 10.33. The walk is
fairly flat and might be muddy. There may be a chance
to walk along the beach depending on the state of the
tide. Lunch is at the Waterfront Front Restaurant in
Westward Ho! Their menu includes a carvery at £6.95
but there is no requirement to order in advance. No.21*
buses back are at 23 and 53 minutes past the hour.
Although Pat Blacker is leading this walk, please book
on to it by contacting Irene Hahn (details above) by
Wednesday 5th February.
*Rumour has it that the bus timetables may be changed
after the Newsletter has gone to press, so please check
beforehand.
This is the final report from the group.
In December on the theme of ‘Merry Music’ we enjoyed
lively pieces by Grieg , Dvorak, Weber, Respigi, Sibelius,
Tchaikovsky and Mozart; also Christmas carols and
songs from Gilbert and Sullivan, Elvis Presley and Aaron
Copeland,
Due to dwindling numbers, current group members
have agreed unanimously to close down this Music
group and so there will be no meetings in 2020.
Music sans Frontieres Christmas was coming when we
held our December meeting so we had a few Christmas
offerings....two versions of White Christmas by Frank
Sinatra and then by Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, then
also White Winter by Fleet Foxes; Annie Lenox sang the
Coventry Carol with the help of the African Children’s
Choir and then there was the perennial Christmas(No.
1) song! Autumn Leaves by Stan Getz didn’t really qual-
ify, belonging with the ‘other plays’ from Bob Dylan,
Bellowhead, Acker Bilk, Peter Skellern, Finnish group
Varttina, some didgeridoo playing by Exeter buskers
Windslide, and a musically backed poem from John Bet-
jeman.
For the musically broad-minded this is all great fun,
so if anyone else thinks so and would like to join us,
please get in touch. The next meeting at 2.15pm on
Tuesday January 14th will be held at 41 Lily Close,
Northam. Angus Winfield
History. Group Contact: Chris Peacock
French. For further information contact Jo
Sampson
Gardens. For further information contact Babs Muir
Folk Dancing. For further information contact Shirley Jew-
ell
German Details of the German group from Val Cur-
tis
Music. For further information please contact
Peter Lockett
Music sans Frontieres. Contact Angus Winfield
Morning Walkers (1st Friday): Group contact Irene Hahn
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Happy New Year to all Petanquers. By the time some of
you read this, it could well be next year !! Hope allof you
have had a most enjoyable break and will be ready to
start playing again on Monday 6th. In the meantime
don’t forget that on New Years Day at 2pm John is hop-
ing to arrange for Petanque on the beach at Westward
Ho!, weather permitting. Meet on the slipway at 1400hrs.
Sorry not to have been around much recently but this
has been due to unexpected problems re the minor op-
eration on my neck, so my thanks once again to Martin
for keeping things going. Hope to see you all again
soon, Regards, Brian.
A small group braved the day’s storm to enjoy an inter-
esting discussion on spirituality during which we ex-
plored the gradient from religion to atheism, chose to
keep an open mind to ley lines but had mixed views on
whether psychics deserved the same treatment. Next
month’s topic is ‘The Prejudice of Facts - are there no
facts, only interpretations?’, a subject which seems likely
to bring up Trump and fake news. Stuart Mealing
We finished reading ‘Androcles and the Lion’ - Bernard
Shaw, which we all enjoyed. It was funny throughout as
well as thought provoking.
There won’t be a meeting on 2 January but we will meet
at a member of the group’s house in Bideford, on 16
January instead. In February, we’ll be back to normal,
meeting in the Upper Room on Thursday 6 February at
10 am.
In December we began the topic of VISUAL PERCEPTION.
In this, the first of two parts, we looked at some of the
"top-down" psychological operations by means of which
the reality of the outside world is construed from the
input provided by our eyes.
In the second part, to take place in February, we will
look at the "bottom-up" processing and transfer of infor-
mation from the eyes to the visual areas of the brain.
The January session will be led by Irene Baxter. Her topic
will be PSYCHOSIS: THE MEDICAL MODEL. John Martin
Happy New Year! For our first meeting of 2020, on
Tuesday 28 January (2:30 in the Upper Room), the sub-
ject will be very close to home, as we welcome guest
speaker Jan Whittington to talk about ‘The Rock Pools of
the North Devon Coast’. As well as running her own
ecology consultancy and training company based near
Bideford, Jan also actively supports our friends at Coast-
Wise North Devon, to help them with their valuable con-
servation projects. I look forward to seeing as many of
you as possible at the meeting. Finally, please note that
the group is currently full, so if anyone else would like to
join, please let me know and I’ll add you to the waiting
list.
We next meet on the 24th. January at 10am in the Upper
room. If you wish to play any other board games please
let me know and I will do my best to get them. I have
Monopoly and Cluedo plus Upword.
Here is the Tennis team enjoying a festive lunch after our
last session in 2019.
We run two weekly
sessions at the Atlan-
tic Racquets Centre
in Bideford, on Tues-
day between 11 am
and 12 noon and on
Thursday between 3
pm and 4 pm. All
necessary equipment
is provided and the
cost is £2.00 per ses-
sion. Both groups are
very sociable and the
members enjoy the exercise and the company. There are
currently vacancies in both groups. To come along and
see if this is for you, Contact one of the group leaders
above
Tuesday tennis will start again on the 7th January 2020.
There are still vacancies so do try something new in the
New year!
Yo, one and all,
Due to heating being put in the hall this month… appar-
ently it was cheaper to do that than widen all the doors
to allow Eric to get in with all his layers of clothes...there
is only one week to report on so here it is..on Tuesday
Gary had a phenomenal 15 break and Alistair played an
equally superb snooker on himself ! Must be the season
of giving. Wednesday was spent mainly with adapting
ourselves to John Stotesbury returning from a cruise. It
was tough going, but we saw it through. Numbers are
holding steady..still room for a couple more particularly
on Tuesday's so if you like some banter and playing the
odd good shot, please get in touch with Deadly Dennis
Pavitt (Tues.), or Captain Nemo aka John Stotesbury for
Wednesdays. Happy New Year everyone.
Scrabble Group. Group contact: Carolyn Kelly
Philosophy (The George Kelly Group.) Group Contact: Stuart Mealing on
Playreading. For further information please contact :
Hilary Smith
Petanque. For any further information please contact
Brian Halstead
Short/Walking Tennis Contacts: -
Tuesday session: Helen Summerhayes
Thursday session: Sandie Treby
Psychology Contact: John Martin
Snooker (Tue & Wed)
Contacts: John Stotesbury
Tuesdays: Dennis Pavitt
Science, Technology & Society. For more information, contact Barry Zuss-
man:
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Editors note:
The next Tuesday snooker session will be on Tuesday
7th January 2020, hopefully with the new central heating
up and running!
We all enjoy our table tennis and the good company of
our players. We have our maximum number of players,
but if you are interested, please contact me to be put on
the waiting list. Christine Issac
January Walk: Denny and Linda thought it would be
wise to give the countryside a breathing space this
month and take a train ride to Topsham instead. The
total walking distance is roughly 2.5 miles. We will walk
from Topsham Station to Topsham Quay then along the
lanes to a large, new bird hide where we will have our
coffee stop and watch winter waders on the Exe Estuary.
If you are a keen bird-watcher, don't forget your binocu-
lars. Then we will walk back to the quay via another
route. If you are interested in antiques there is a three
storey antiques centre on the quay where we can spend
some time browsing before going to the Lighter Inn for
lunch. If you would like to join this day out, please let
Linda know by Tuesday 14 January, along with your
choice of lunch. The Lighter Inn menu and special die-
tary menu are on their website, www.lighterinn.co.uk, (If
you do not have access to the internet please ring Lin-
da).
Details: On Friday 17 January 2020, meet at Barn-
staple Railway Station at 9.10am to meet the 9.35am
train to Exeter. As the train no longer goes direct to
Topsham we will have to change at Exeter St Davids and
wait 9 minutes for the train to Topsham. Return jour-
ney: We leave Topsham on the 3.35pm train and arrive
back in Barnstaple at 5.27pm.
Return fare to Topsham (as at December 2019): All Rail-
cards = £7.35. Groups of 3 or more = £7.35. Full fare for
one passenger, £11.10. We advise getting to the station
early so that you can form into groups of 3 or more.
Remember, only one person per group can pay at the
kiosk so you will need cash to pay your payer.
Daily Car Parking charges (as at December 2019): Barn-
staple Station = £3.70. Seven Brethren (five minutes
walk away, situated behind the Leisure Centre) £1.70
December walk – A window in the weather – and 16 of
us led by Adrienne set off from Westward Ho! for a cir-
cular walk. Because of the very wet ground the route
was adapted, and we did a semi-circular walk. Eric was
‘invited’ to be ‘Master of Ceremonies,’ he knew where
to find the deepest flood!!! We all negotiated this in
various ways and ended up in Bideford. Luckily, ramblers
who’d parked in Westward Ho! all had their bus passes
and could return to their cars.
Thank you Adrienne, especially for coping with the last
minute change of plan.
January walk – Meet at 10.30 on 10th January at Mud-
dlebridge Layby, Fremington (OS Landranger 139 GR
325 518) On the 21 bus route, for those who wish to
use the bus.
About 5 mostly flat miles + MUD! Mixture of beach,
fields, lanes and footpaths , with a ford.
Depending on weather and tides the route could change
on the day BYOFAD
When the group met this month we spent sometime prac-
ticing the playlist for the two gigs that we have in Janu-
ary. We then continued with a selection of Christmas
music and enjoyed some lovely chocolates provided by
one of the group members. Finally, members thanked
Richard for all his hard work during the year.
The group will reconvene in January. Our first subject for
2020 is “chill of the night”.
The group is currently full.
We meet in the Upper Room on the fourth Wednesday of
the month. Our next meeting will be January 22nd 2020
at 2.30pm.
This month we each drew cards out of a hat. One set
was a career and the other a place. The idea was to write
a story connecting the two. When I drew a Department
Store and a Vet I felt suitably challenged as did everyone
as all the pairs drawn were equally unlikely. A nurse/
library, actor/hotel and artist/cinema etc. We all agreed it
was a good idea which made us use our imaginations to
the full. We still have a vacancy in our group. If you are
interested please give me a call.
Writers' Group 1. For further information contact Gary How
by email:
Writers’ Group 2. For further information Shirley Jewell
Ukulele group. For further information contact Richard
Patmore
Torridge U3A Ramblers. Contact: Jane Papworth
Glenis Beardsley
Third Friday Walkers. Group contact: Linda Burgess
Table Tennis. Contact: Christine Isaac
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DIARY PAGE
ACTIVITY DATE TIME LOCATION
Groups below meet every week
DRAMA Wednesday 14:00 The Pollyfield Centre, East–the-Water
BEGINNERS BADMINTON Monday Morning
Wednesday Afternoon
10:00—11:00
15:00—1600
Atlantic Racquets Centre, Bideford
BRIDGE for IMPROVERS Tuesday & Friday 19:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
CROQUET Tuesday 14:00 Season over—back next year
FRENCH Tuesday 10:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
PETANQUE Mon & Fri am; Wed pm 10:30/14:00 Village Inn, Westward Ho!
SNOOKER Tuesday & Wednesday 10:00 Kingsley snooker club, Westward Ho!
TABLE TENNIS Thursday 10:00 Bideford Youth Centre on the Pill
WALKING/SHORT TENNIS Tuesday Morning
Thursday Afternoon
11:00—12:00
15:00—1600
Atlantic Racquets Centre, Bideford
Groups below meet two or three times a month
CANASTA 1st & 3rd Wednesday 14:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
DRAWING 1 2nd & 4th Wednesday 10:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
DRAWING 2 1st & 3rd Thursdays 14:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
FOLK DANCING 2nd & 4th Mondays 14:00 Northam Hall
GERMAN Alternate Thursdays 10:00 Contact Val Curtis for details
UKULELE (improvers) 1st & 3rd Mondays 14:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
Groups below meet once a month
BIRD WATCHING See newsletter entry See newsletter entry
BOOK GROUP 1 3rd Tuesday 14:00 Ocean Park
BOOK GROUP 2 4th Thursday 10:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
BOOK GROUP 3 1st Tuesday 14:30 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
BOOK GROUP 4 2nd Monday 14:30 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
CLASSICAL MUSIC 4th Friday 14:00 6, Stanbridge Park, Bideford
CRAFT CARDING 3rd Wednesday 09:30 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
CREATIVE CRAFT 3rd Thursday 10:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
DEVON INNS 2nd Thursday 12:00 See newsletter entry
DIGITAL CAMERA GROUP 2nd Wednesday 14.00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
DISCUSSION 1st Wednesday 10:30 The Royal Hotel, Bideford
GARDENS 3rd Thursday All day * * See newsletter entry
HISTORY 4th Thursday 14:30 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
MORNING WALKERS 1st Friday 10:30 See newsletter entry
MUSIC 2nd Friday 13:00 19 Amyas Way
MUSIC SANS FRONTIERS 2nd Tuesday 14:15 41 Lily Close, Northam
PHILOSOPHY (The George Kelly Grp) 2nd Tuesday 14:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
PLAY READING 1st Thursday 10:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
PSYCHOLOGY 2nd Friday 10:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY 4th Tuesday 14:30 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
SCRABBLE 4th Friday 10:00—12:00 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
TORRIDGE U3A RAMBLERS 2nd Friday 10:30 Appledore via Westward Ho!
THIRD FRIDAY WALKERS 3rd Friday 10:30 See newsletter entry
WRITERS GROUP 1 4th Wednesday 14:30 Upper Room, St Margaret’s
WRITERS GROUP 2 3rd Tuesday Contact Shirley Jewell (see
Newsletter entry)
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