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Local History
For February ONLY we will meet on Tuesday 7th due to a clash of dates.
February topic will be ‘The history of Liverpool cow-keepers’ presented by David Joy.
Subsequent meetings will be on the 2nd Monday monthly.
March 13th – Mr. Charlie Southern will continue with part 2 ‘brand names and history of Liverpool, Walton and Maghull shops’
Entrance is £1.50
Pedal Pushers
The Pedal Pushers have now lost their ‘L‘ plates and become an
active cycling group, covering distances up to 12 miles, on their trips.
New members are welcome but they should have some cycling experience.
Members with no cycling experience should consider attending Active Sefton –
Friday beginners sessions – 1.30pm – 2.30pm
MeCycle Café 59 Station Rd, Ainsdale PR8 3HH
Bikes and helmets are available for loan – advanced booking required.
Tel: 0151 934 4576
Email:
Book Clubs
Friday Book Club meets next 27th January 10:30
to discuss The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies
Thursday Book Club meets next on Thursday evening 9th February
to talk about The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
If you would like to join one of the book clubs call David or Anne – see this link
Carol concert fundraiser
Our recent Carol Concert
raised £240 for Woodlands Hospice.
A very worthy cause so well done to all.
Badminton group celebration
On Wednesday Jan 11th, members of the U3A Badminton group said thanks to Marj Grundy, who has been Team Leader of the group since it’s start 10 years ago.Held at The Cherry House, Ormskirk, the evening was a great success with wonderful food and more importantly good company.Marj will continue to play the game she loves and will have to put up with Colin Gore as her replacement, it will be a hard act to follow.She was presented with flowers and an M+S gift voucher.
Colin Gore.
Coffee mornings
Tuesday Coffee morning.
No coffee morning during half term week – 14th Feb
Technology & Science
Welcome to another year of Tech and Science.
We start the year with the following topics:
Jan 25 Beer – History and chemistry
Feb 8 Green(ish) energy (part 2)
Feb 22 Blood composition and chemistry
Discussion group After Christmas lunch
Reminder that instead of our usual meeting in January, we will be having our
“After Christmas” lunch on Thursday 26th January at the Bootle Arms.
Meet at 12.30 at the venue. If anyone hasn’t given their name to Brian, don’t worry, the numbers are elastic and you can still turn up on the day. 2 for 1 menu.
Looking forward to seeing you all – good company, good food and some good discussions. What more could you ask?
Maths 4 Fun
We had a great meeting to start the new year exploring 4, 6, 8, 12 and 20 sided dice 
and the games they are used for. Hope you have all now honed your Monopoly skills and can beat the grandchildren hollow. If anyone still has bored youngsters to look after the best non-electronic game for the second year running seems to be Blokus, lots of coloured pieces on a scrabble type board. Takes around 30 seconds to learn, totally addictive for young and old alike, and full of hidden maths skills!
Next time – Wednesday 1st February – we will look at Maths in Art and discover the rules of perspective and composition that the classical masters knew. We will see how Fibonacci and the Golden Section appear from Michelangelo to Picasso and Mondrian, and how Escher managed to break the rules so successfully.
If you would like to join us please bring a pencil, ruler and rubber with you.
Remember No Stress Lots of Laughs