SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS NEWSLETTER NO 102 November 2014

SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS
NEWSLETTER NO 102
November 2014
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chairperson
Vice Chairman
Secretary
Treasurer
Janice Tyas
David Courtenay
Maureen Stockton
Allen Surrey
Committee Members
Membership
Secretary
Sheila Chilton
Groups
Coordinator
Speaker
Secretary
Co-opted
members
01245 321110
01245 321093
01621 741655
01245 320743
01245 321238
Chris Dutfield
Heather Richardson
Brian Chilton
01621 828806
01245 320205
01245 321238
Anne Jackson
01245 322261
Lynn Boyland
Adelaide Ogilvie
Jean Foddering
01245 321127
01245 320716
01245 320874
From the Chair,
I hope those who attended the study day found it worthwhile and any feedback
would be welcome.
The quiz organised by the social committee was well supported and a big
thank you to all those who arranged it for their hard work.
With only 7 weeks to Christmas I hope the preparations are under way. Next
month is our Christmas meeting and there will be nibbles and mulled wine.
Janice
SOCIAL COMMITTEE
Members:
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Jean Foddering (Leader)
Monica Streamer (Treasurer)
Dorne Knott
Pat Golding
Unni Vester-Hodgson
Quiz Night
On behalf of everyone who attended the quiz
night on Friday 16th October can I say a big
thank you to the Social committee for an
excellent evening once again. The quiz master is
excellent with questions pitched just right.
There was a lot of laughing and camaraderie as
well as good humoured rivalry.
The scores were close and well done to the
winning team. Last man standing is an excellent
substitute for the raffle and great fun.
Well done to everyone involved, Sheila.
WANTED
NEW GROUPS
If anyone is interested in starting a new group
Please contact me or one of the committee
members
Support will be given
We have been asked to start a Spanish Group
Is anyone interested in running this?
Anne Jackson
Groups Coordinator
01245322261
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Christmas Starts Here
CURRY CLIQUE CHRISTMAS
SPECIAL
Tuesday 18th November.
7.30pm for 7.45pm
Balti Bhujon Mill Rd Maldon
Board out at meetings
Graham
Gardening
Unfortunately our planned trip to Little Horkesley Hall on Monday 13th
October was cancelled due to severe weather causing flooding.
Future Plans
Monday 10th November Coach trip to Wisley (2 places left) Cost
£14.50 coach only. Entrance fees covered by enough RHS members
allowed a guest.
Leave village hall at 9am. Leave Wisley 3.30-4pm
Monday 8th December Christmas get together at Smythe Hall Stow
Maries 2pm Chat, refreshments and quiz. Hopefully next year’s
provisional programme will be ready.
Monday 12th January Talk at Smythe Hall Stow Maries 2pm. TBA
Enjoy. Mary
Calling all Bridge Players
Please contact me if you are interested
in meeting up with other players.
Anne Jackson 01245 322261
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Our Web Site
This contains details of past and future meetings. It also
has a copy of the newsletter each month, so you can check
any details. http://www.swf-u3a.org.uk
The Crouch Valley U3A web site is at
http://www.crouchvalleyu3a.org.uk/
Strollers
Our next walk is on Monday 24th November. We meet at White Elm
Garden Centre, Bicknacre at 10.30am. We plan to discuss next year’s
programme over a cup of coffee in the tea rooms. If the weather permits
we hope to walk through Bicknacre to the Priory Arch. Please contact
Anne 01245 322261 or Jill 01245 320794 if you need a lift or more
information.
Jill and Anne
Each king in a deck
of playing cards represents a great king from
history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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NEW GROUP
Yoga , relaxation , pilates , meditation
This class will be run as an affiliated group which
means it's mainly U3a .
Held at the village hall. Entrance around the back and
we are using the bar area where the floor is carpeted .
From Tuesday 7th October.
Classes start at 1.45 pm .
Cost £6 a class
Please call or text Kay for more info 07714467750
Walking Group
The walking group meet on the first and third Friday of the month; we are
not a strolling group and do walk at quite a stiff pace with few stops. If you
would like to join us, just turn up. Alternatively please feel free to contact
me for further information about walking, using any of the means listed at
the back of this newsletter. You can also get more details about the
walking group from our web site; http://walking.swf-u3a.org.uk, which is
updated monthly.
November Walks
Friday 7th November - Burnham Walk - 7 miles - please meet in
Burnham Marina car park at 10o'clock.
Friday 21st November - Maldon/Beeleigh/Langford Walk - 7 miles please meet in Maldon Tesco car park for 10 o'clock start. If it's been very
wet we will miss out the Beeleigh part of the walk which can be very
muddy.
Advance Notice of December Walks
Friday 5th December - Purleigh Walk - 5.5 miles - please meet in
Purleigh sports field car park just before 10 o'clock.
Friday 19th December - South Woodham/Radar Hill Walk - 6 miles meet in Compass Garden’s car park at 10 o'clock. Bob Tyas
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Theatre Throng
COWARDY CUSTARD
Wednesday 26th Nov at 7.45 pm
Tickets for collection at £10 each
Boards out for pre theatre meal at
Oldhams
600pm
Graham Evans ( 01621742524)
Art and Architecture
With our visit to the Wallace Collection the 2014 programme is now
complete. It was my first visit to the Wallace Collection, what a gem.
We have booked a speaker for a talk at Champions Manor Hall on
Wednesday 28th January. It will be a similar format to last year with a
buffet lunch followed by the talk. The speaker will be David Thompson who
gave the talk last January but his topic this year will be the architect
Nicholas Hawksmoor. (Probably 1661 – 25 March 1736).
Hawksmoor was an English architect, a leading figure of the English
Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth
centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the principal architects of the time,
Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, and contributed to the design of some
of the most notable buildings of the period.
We will have full details in December but will be pleased to start taking
names if you are interested in attending. Chris
If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you
were in will always move faster than the one you are
in now.
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COACH TRIP
Wisley RHS Garden
Monday 10th November
Cost £14.50. This is for the coach only
We have enough RHS members to be able to
take everyone into the garden at no cost.
Leaving village hall at 9am. Leaving Wisley 4pm
I have four seats left.
Cheques to South Woodham Ferrers U3A for
£14.50
Contact me on 01245 328 179 or at the meeting.
Many thanks. Mary Dodd
London Theatre
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Thurs mat. 13th and 20th November. Tickets
available at the meeting.
White Christmas - Wed 17th & Thurs 18th December. Tickets available
at the meeting.
The Book of the Mormon - Wed mat. 11th or 25th February. 10+ £39.50
+ 60p fee. Please indicate whether you are available for either or both dates
and I will make a firm booking.
Cats - Wed mat 11th or 25th February. 10+ £35+53p, 6+ £39.50+60p
fee. A new production on a short run. Please indicate if you are interested
and I will make a booking.
Miss Saigon - Thurs mat. 23rd April - 10+ £32.50 + 49p fee. Tickets
purchased, please have cheques available at the meeting. I will circulate
tickets in the New Year.
Memphis - 10+ £39.50 + 60p fee – Starring Beverley Knight has opened
to rave reviews, however, she is not performing matinees. Board is out for
interest. So far numbers are split between matinee and evening so
insufficient numbers to book either, if you feel you could go to either, then
please indicate on the list. Pauline
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SUPREME COURT TRIP
6TH FEBRUARY 2015
Cost is £13 including coach fare to visit this
special venue with a tour.
There are still places available for this trip
Please come and talk to our Social Committee
(in other hall) for more details, if you are
interested.
Jean Foddering
London Walks Group1.
At this month’s meeting we will be collecting your menus and £10 deposit
for the Christmas meal, which will be at the Eatery at 7pm on Wednesday
10th December. We will collect the remaining £15 in December.
Our walk this month is our West End Foodies walk on Wednesday 19th
November. We will meet our guide Ann at Green Park Station, the Green
Park Exit by the fountain at 11am. We look forward to seeing you at the
meeting. Mary and Kay
Film Viewing
The film viewing group has been going for a year now. We have watched a
wide variety of films, some serious and some light-hearted and some
different; comedies, historical dramas, science fiction and big features.
Examples are, "The Artist", " Life of Pi", "Avatar", hard hitting American
histories, "The Butler" and "Edgar J Hoover", the Russian Costume Drama,
"Anna Karenina," "Ladies in Lavender", Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue" and
many others.
We have an intermission. Tea / coffee and cakes are included, and at the
end we have a bit of a discussion about the film.
All in all, we have an enjoyable and interesting afternoon.
New members are very welcome. Linda Cusick
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Bird Watching
We went to Tollesbury Wick on a fine October morning and enjoyed
walking along the grassy bank to the hide. After looking at the birds on
the scrape we had a delicious homemade soup in the loft tearooms before
returning home.
Our next outing is to Chigborough lakes on the 6th November. Eileen
How true is this?
At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from
the aisle always arrive last. They are the ones who will
leave their seats several times to go for food, beer, or the
toilet and who leave early before the end of the performance or the game is over. The folks in the aisle seats
come early, never move once, have long gangly legs or
big bellies and stay to the bitter end of the performance.
The aisle people also are very surly folk.
London Walks Group 2
Our last walk of the year will be on Thursday 27th November and is
‘Dickens London’. Cost £6. Meet at SWF station for the 9.16 train or
11am at Temple Tube exit. Our guide is Richard.
After the walk it has been suggested we go to Sarastros in Drury Lane for
an end of year lunch. This is a Turkish/Mediterranean restaurant and is
highly recommended. The lunch time menu has two courses for £16.50
or you can select from the a la carte menu. Please let us know at the time
of booking if you are interested in the lunch as we need to book a table.
Janice
If you don't feel well, make an appointment to go to the
doctor, by the time you get there, you'll feel better. But don't
make an appointment and you'll stay sick.
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An Emergency Call Centre worker in
London has been dismissed from her
job, much to the dismay of
colleagues who are reportedly
unhappy with her treatment.
It seems a male caller dialled 999
from a mobile phone stating,
"I am depressed and lying here on a
railway track. I am waiting for the
train to come so I can end it all."
Apparently
"Remain calm and stay on the line"
was not considered to be an
appropriate response...
Please note the deadline for inclusion in next month’s
Newsletter is Thursday 27th November
E-mail to Lyn Kear at f.kear365@btinternet.com, tel.321367
or post to
11 Clements Court, SWF, CM3 5FB.
Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when
babies wake up like every two hours?
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Today’s speaker is : Peter Regelous ‘A life on the road with Peter King
December 3rd
BRIAN D’ARCY
‘Living with the ghosts of the
Tower of London’
Brian will tell you how he became a Yoeman Warder and lived in the
Tower for 23 years. Who are the ghosts who walk the battlements and
throw stones at the sentries, and the Earl who pushes people down the steps
of the Martin Tower and who screams on Tower Green? All will be
revealed.
INTEREST & ACTIVITY GROUPS
Amblers
Meet 4th Friday @ 11am
Contact:- Maureen Jones
01245329324
Art & Architecture Meet 4th Tuesday @
Co-ordinator :- Chris Miles
01245 401015
e-mail:- chrisandkaymiles@yahoo.co.uk
Art Group Practical Meet 3rd Tuesday 1.30pm – 4:30pm
Co-ordinator :- Ali-J Wilson
e-mail:- alijaywilson@btinternet.com
Bird Watching
Meets 1st Thursday @ 10:00am
Contact :- Eileen Maclean
01245 426232
01245 321160
Book Group 1
Meets 1st Monday @ 10.00am First Monday.
Co-ordinator:- Sue Moore
01268 763679
e-mail:-Sue.moore@blueyonder.co.uk
Book Group 2
Meets 1st Monday @ 7.30pm. First Monday
Co-ordinator :- Pam French
01245 400311
e-mail:- derekpamfrench@hotmail.com
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Cards and Games
for fun
Meets 4th Wednesday
Co-ordinator :- Adelaide Ogilivie
e mail:- adelaide.ogilvie@btinternet.com 01245 320716 .
Computer Self Help On line forum No Meetings
Group
Co-ordinator :- JG Weston
e-mail:- jgw321@gmail.com
Craft Group
Meets 1st & 3rd Thursdays @10:00-12:00am
Plus 2nd & 4th Tuesdays @10:00-12:00am
Co-ordinator :- Sandra Rolfe
01245 320374
E-mail - sandra.rolfe@btinternet.com
Curry Clique
Meets third Tuesday of alternate months
Co-ordinator Graham Evans
01621 742524
Discussion Group
Meets 3rd Monday @ 2:00 – 4:00pm
at members homes
Co-ordinator :- Margaret Hill
Digital Photography Meets 4th Friday @ 10:00am
Group
Co-ordinator :- Ali-J Wilson
e-mail:- alijaywilson@btinternet.com
Drawing Group
01245 426232
Meets fourth Monday of the month at 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Co-ordinator :- Ali-J Wilson
01245 426232
e-mail:- alijaywilson@btinternet.com
Family History Group Meets 4th Tuesday 2:00-4:00pm
Co-ordinator :- Pat Golding
e-mail:- patgo121@gmail.com
Film Making
01245 320997
01245 320846
Meets 3rd Thursday @ 10:00 – 12:00am
Co-ordinator :- Ken Pratt
01245 324930
e-mail:- ken.pratt@btinternet.com
Film Viewing Group Meets 3rd Wednesday @ 2:00 – 4:30pm
Co-ordinator :- Linda Cusick
01245 329817
e-mail:- lindacusick@me.com
French Group
Meets 2nd Thursday @ 1:30 – 4:30pm
Co-ordinator :- Jean Foddering
01245 320874
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INTEREST GROUPS continued
Gardening Group
Golfing Group
Meets 2nd Monday
Co-ordinator :- Mary Dodd
e-mail:- mbdoddswf@aol.com
01245 328179
Meets every Monday Morning
Co-ordinator :- Bob Tyas
01245 321110
e-mail:- robert@tyas82.freeserve.co.uk
Hand Held Technology Meets 1st Thursday @ 1:30—3.30pm
Group
Co-ordinator:- Brian Hurrell
01245 324148
e-mail: handheldtechnology@yahoo.co.uk
Local History Group Meets 2nd Tuesday @ 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Contact :- Allen Surrey
e-mail:- a.surrey@sdtl.com
01245 320743
London Theatres
Meets to suit Tickets
Co-ordinator :- Pauline Coster
01245 320437
e-mail:- coster@brentpc.orangehome.co.uk30
London Walks
Group 1
Meets 3rd Wednesday when walks are scheduled
Co-ordinator :- Mary Brindley
01245 329162
e-mail:- royandmary@homecall.co.uk
London Walks
Group 2
Meets 4th Thursday when walks are scheduled
Co-ordinator :- Janice Tyas
01245 321110
Luncheon Club
Meets 2nd Thursday for lunch @ selected venue
Co-ordinator :- Heather Richardson 01245 320205
e-mail:- heatherhmr99@waitrose.com
Music Appreciation Meets 2nd Wednesday 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Group
Co-ordinator :- Heather Richardson
e-mail:- heatherhmr99@waitrose.com
Snooker Group
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Meets 2nd Thursday 2:00 pm.
First floor SWF Village Hall
Co-ordinator :- David Courtenay
e-mail:- david.courtenay@talktalk.net
01245 320205
01245 321093
Science & Technology Meets 1st Thursday 10:00 – 12:00 pm
Group
In the Meeting Room @ Champions Manor
Co-ordinator :- Carol Weston
01245 325080
Singles - Social
& Dining
Meets 3rd Monday for lunch 11:30 am
Co-ordinator :- Joan Bridger
01245 328369.
Val Weidenhaur
01245 324813
E-mail Valinda69@talktalk.net
Strollers
Meets 4th Monday 10:30 am
Contact :- Ann Jackson
Coordinator: Jill Hiskitt
Tai Chi
Meets every Monday 1:15 – 2:30 pm
@ SWF Village Hall
Tutor :- Gareth Chandler
e-mail:- gochandler@btinternet.com
01245 322261
01245 320794
07760 234536
Ten Pin Bowling
Meets 2nd Friday & 4th Tuesday @ 9:45 am
Madison Heights in Maldon
Co-ordinator :- David Courtenay
01245 321093
e-mail:- david.courtenay@talktalk.net
Walking Group
Meets 1st & 3rd Friday
Co-ordinator :- Bob Tyas
01245 321110
e-mail:- robert@tyas82.freeserve.co.uk
Whisky Appreciation Meets 4th Friday @ 2:00 pm
Group
Co-ordinator :- Alan Golding
email:-alan.golding@btinternet.com
01245 3208
Wine Appreciation Meets 2nd Friday 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Group 1
Co-ordinator :- Bob Tyas
01245 321110
e-mail:- robert@tyas82.freeserve.co.uk
Wine Appreciation Meets 2nd Friday 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Group 2
Co-ordinator :- Gerald Malone
e-mail:- gjmalone@yahoo.com
01245 325572
Wine Appreciation Meets 2nd Friday 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Group 3
Co-ordinator :- Brian Chilton
e-mail:- sheila.chilton@talktalk.net
01245 321238
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Day of the
Week
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
A
M
P
M
A
M
P
M
A
M
P
M
A
M
P
M
A
M
P
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4th
Golfing Group
Strollers
Local History
Group
Film Viewing
London Walks 1
Film Making
Craft
Art Practical
Curry Clique
Cards and Games for
Fun
London Walks 2
Tai Chi
Drawing Group
Ten Pin Bowling
Craft
Art & Architecture
Family History
Music
Appreciation
Walking
Tai Chi
Gardening
Craft Group
WEEK OF THE MONTH
2nd
3rd
Golfing Group
Golfing Group
Singles Social &
Dining
Tai Chi
Discussion Group
South Woodham Ferrers U3A
Interest Group Programme
1st
Golfing Group
Book Group 1
Tai Chi
Book Group 2
MONTHLY
MEETING
Bird Watchng
Craft
Science & Technology
Hand Held
Technology
Walking
Amblers
Photography
Whisky
Appreciation
Luncheon Club
French
Snooker
Ten Pin
Bowling
Wine
Appreciation
1,2,3
Theatre as Arranged