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I Table Tennis We meet once every 4 weeks on a ursday evening at the upper Callington Newsletter schoolroom of Callington Methodist Church at 7 pm. Dates are on THAT TIME AGAI N! the U3A website. All are welcome and we are all enthusiastic and play at the end of March, membership fees for March 2017 covers all abilities from beginners upwards. Why not come and give it your U3A will be due for payment. a try. All equipment is provided. A charge is made to cover the cost of On Monday 3rd April at our AGM it will be hiring the room. decided if any change is required to the rate. Contact Ray Geatches 350638 When renewing it is important that your details have remained the same as last year, I Walking Group 1 ie: name address email phone etc. if anything Be Water Wise! Only one of our February walks have been cancelled due to rain and has changed please notify the treasurer. although somewhat muddy have been most enjoyable with a trip to At the AGM it would be appreciated if Germansweek (which most of us had never visited before), Landulph, payments are by cheque, as this will speed a trip with Phil to Wadebridge and the Camel trail and for the last one up the process and hopefully avoid long his month at the Callington U3A meeting below inflation. Successes so far, 20yrs of no restric - of the month we did a walk from the railway. We took the train to St queues, it will also still be OK for cheques our speaker was Jason Harvey, Network and tions. Looking ahead, Catchment management, Serv - Keyne on the Looe line, walked through Duloe and Tredinnick and with your postcode written on the reverse to Customer Services Manager at South West ice progresses, Reduction of complaints. Ways to help be posted to: T Water. their customers with flexipay, additional needs and back down to Sandplace for the trip back to Liskeard. We were even lucky enough to have sunshine, a walk of 5.5 miles. New members al - watercare. He told us about the waste water and clean Callington U3A Treasurer He talked about where and who they serve. ey have ways welcome. Ian Macdonald sweep bathing, 250 crude outfalls closed, 86 Olympic 1.7 million customers, 70,000 businesses, many sized swimming pools of storm storage. His 'looking Contact: Dorreen Johnson 343152 Clampitts Farmhouse tourists, 35% of all bathing water and 19% of shellfish Metherell forward' section included the challenge they have with [email protected] waters. ey also have the longest pipework per cus - Cornwall PL17 8BJ keeping surface water out of combined sewers. Work - I Walking Group 2 tomer. ing with the environment through more solar, wind Every 5 years they submit a business plan to Ofwat, and hydro power, reducing energy consumption, using Contact: Lucy Thomas 350018 with 8 elements, 1) Top quality tap water all the time. natural solutions to prevent pollution and reduce 2) Reliable wastewater service. 3) Ensuring the region pumping costs. has the water it needs. 4) Coping with extreme con - He recommended we go to Roadford Lake Reservoir ditions. 5) Giving you the services and information as a great day out, to get an idea of how part of our you want. 6) Fair charging. 7) Protecting the environ - water system works. The Last Call!! ment. 8) Benefiting the community. ey are certainly working hard to bring us clean water Jason talked about various aspects of the business such everyday. What we learnt is that a lot goes on behind We need YOU! Officer Contact as their price promise for 2015-2020 increases to be the scenes to bring us our cup of tea. Our AGM is next month. At that meeting we MUST have a Numbers new Chairman and need a new Vice Chairman. If you know If you are interested in joining us at the Callington Chairman: David Seward anyone you think could do the job, please put their name U3A go to www.u3asites.org.uk/Callington or come t: 384631 forward. along on the first Monday of the month 10am Vice Chair: Michael Farr Callington Town Hall. Without a Chairman, t: 383482 the U3A cannot continue!! Secretary: Jo Earl Gillian Brown Please contact the Chairman, David Seward or t: 532024 Secretary, Jo Earl. Treasurer: Ian MacDonald t: 351221 [email protected] Editor: Colin Mills t: 208598 And coming up soon... Email: [email protected] Group Leaders and other Speakers at the next few Meetings: contributors - Please Note: All Copy to the editor by 25th of the I preceding month please. April 3rd (N.B. I cannot guarantee inclusion of copy submitted after this date - but exceptions may AGM be made wherever possible for groups meeting in the fourth week of the month) Low water at Colliford Reservoir I The Newsletter is published at the start of each May 8th month. Millie Lindfield on Hannah Lindfield Disabled members: Contact Peter Watson 384509 N.B. Phone numbers without dialling codes are for the 01579 area. March 2017_Layout 1 28/02/2017 15:28 Page 2
Group Reports Christine’s. We listened to some old jazz the question of personal identity. He also We meet on the aernoon of the 3rd urs - favourites, Ellington, Armstrong, Benny argued that everyone has a God-given right day of the month. Goodman, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, but also to life, freedom, happiness and property and Contact Penny Beech on 01822 I Allotments hill, apart from a handful of us who read it was a lemon sponge (courtesy of Ellen). e some less familiar jazz names, Brian Carrick, was the Father of liberal democracy as we 834756 or 07971 889572 twice (mainly because we got confused the next meeting will be on ursday 23rd March. the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, David Newton know it today. He believed all human beings (which has an answerphone service). We currently have two 8’x10’ plots vacant at first time) and decided it was actually an in - If you are interested in joining us to discuss or and Martin Taylor. A most enjoyable aer - have the potential for development. Our next I Haye Road. Anyone interested please contact triguing book. Too much detail would give learn more about crime fiction, please contact noon session. e next meeting will be a session will be on March 30th and will be Singing for Pleasure Ann Martin for information and a site visit. away the plot, but basically it is about a fam - David Seward 384631 members’ choice session on Wed 8th March taken by Carol Dowell in my absence. e dates for the March Singing for Pleasure Contact Ann Martin ily split by politics, war and overseas post - at Christine’s. If you are interested in joining Contact: Doreen Johnson 343152 are 13th and 27th. ings. It’s not a happy book, although it has I Computers us - [email protected] Venue and times as before. I Art some amusing moments – hard to describe Currently this group is resting however several Contact David Seward 384631 Contact: Rosalind Bunkum 383171 Meetings booked so far are as follows:- you must read it for yourself to form your members have enquired about meeting again. I Play Reading I ursday 9th & 23rd March own opinions.e book we are reading this I Music Appreciation Strollers If you would like to come to a meeting please Contact Jean Rose 350029 month is a good old fashioned ‘classic’ A Pair We continued our appreciation of Mozart e proposed outing to e Meadows in All at the Old School, Stoke Climsland from contact me: 10am - 1pm. of Blue Eyes by omas Hardy. with a very enjoyable selection of his most fa - I Poetry Tavistock had to be cancelled due to bad Contact Peter Watson 384509 mous concertos. weather so a well attended coffee morning at New members (no skill needed) are welcome Contact Hilary Howarth 382172 Two subjects formed the main features of this or email [email protected] Next Meeting March 14th. Louis was substituted. e following Mon - to just turn up on any of these dates, or until [email protected] meeting; Flowers and the Sea and we ex - Contact: Pat Ferguson 384402 day we went to Cotehele and admired the further notice please I plored works of several poets some modern lovely display of snowdrops. Our next stroll I Bridge Family History others classical. e lives and times of poets Contact Jane Black 382187 I was at Calstock when sixteen of us walked Contact Hilary Davis 350360 Monday 27th March 2.30pm at Eileen's Needlework John Masfield and John Clare were discussed down through Harewood to the quay, a dis - [email protected] as were the poems of an unfamiliar poet to I Flower Arranging Wednesday April 5th 10am Normally meet on the second ursday of the tance of 1.74 miles which included a short Baking I Cornish Culture at Eileen's Title ‘A day in the life of.’ month. most of us Ernestine Northover. Born in 1943 walk around the church. As there was Contact Eileen Sturt 350639 Details from Ann Martin in Derby she tries to see ‘the funny side of life’. nowhere open in Calstock where we could get ere were pies galore at our last meeting. Over a Cornish tea on the 16th February it Her love of nature is emotionally portrayed in coffee, we caught the bus back to the top of Meat, vegetables and sweet... we baked them was decided to resurrect the Cornish Culture I Flower Arranging I Opera her poems which rare in modern poetry have the hill. Some of the group decided to call in all in pastry ranging from potato to puff, Group in a slightly different format. We will a rhyming stance. At our next session we will at Louis on the way back to Callington where, Contact Eileen Sturt 350639 Continuing with our featured composer be highlighting poems and Shakespearian sweet to short. ank you to everyone who work to a programme of discussion and I am reliably informed, they enjoyed not only Puccini we enjoyed one of his most popular block verse about ‘England ‘ contributed to a really good session and events. Here is the future time table: coffee but a big breakfast! Our final stroll this I operas; Tosca. Set in Rome on the eve of the shared their pastry expertise. Food & Wine Next Meeting 10th March. month is at St.Dominick where we hope to 10th April – Cornish Traditions – members battle of Marengo it tells of the love of the en - Contact Maire Warwick 350711 Contact Pat Ferguson 384402 see some daffodils. choice. tertainer Tosca and her painter boyfriend Next meeting is Brunch at Les' on March 8th ([email protected]) Contact: Pauline Husband 350379 and following that is Easter baking on April 15th May – Visit to Calstock – possible ferry Cavaradossi. An escaped republican prisoner I Scrabble trip if tide is suitable. is pursued by the chief of police the evil 5th at the Wheeleys'. I Game On e group, led by Lesley 12th June – Scarpia, who himself has designs on Tosca. He Contact Jenny Wheeley 351662 Bude Castle built by Sir Cheetham at her Goldsworthy Gurney. Next meetings are March 12th and 26th tries to trick her into a liaison by offering to and our final meeting of the season is on home, meets once a month July – To be advised. save Cavaradossi, who has been arrested for on a Wednesday evening. I April 9th. hiding the prisoner by means of a fake execu - Barn Dancing 11th September –Bus trip to Helston and the e actual week of the Contact Jenny Wheeley 351662 tion. Tosca believes him but not willing to month will change in some is new group is progressing well, learning Lizard. respond to his advances, aer first obtaining months. lots of new dances and having some good 9th October –Cornish Music, Songs and Po - I Handbells a freedom of movement pass for the two laughs in the process. e group meets on etry – members choice. Contact Lesley Contact Maire Warwick 350711 lovers to flee Rome, kills him. e supposed Cheetham 383632 the first ursday of each month at 10.30 13th November – DVD of Cornish interest. fake execution turns out to be real and Tosca’s am, the next meetings will be on 6 April and All welcome. I History crime is discovered leaving her with no choice I Scribblers 4 May. Hope to see you there. but in true Puccini style to leap to her death Contact Anita & Tony Bowden Contact Josephine King 350890 We met in February osten - Contact Wendy Fader on from the battlements. e opera from the 350668 sibly to read and discuss our 01822 835985 Royal Opera featured Angela Gheorghiu as I Humour attempt at writing comedy I Tosca and a superb performance by Bryn Ter - Strollers awaiting transport at Calstock or email [email protected] Crime Fiction Contact: Keith Lane 370713 but it seems a funny thing happened on the fel as Scarpia, whose facial expressions and way to our computers and most of us found Appreciation or by email [email protected]. body language complemented his first-rate I it quite difficult. Nevertheless, some previous Bookworms At our February’s meeting at Lucy’s, there were singing voice. Our next opera will be Puccini’s I work was dug out and tweaked a little - this only 5 members. However we still managed Italian last and unfinished Turandot. Sebastian Barry – A Temporary included a very funny poem about the to discuss over 15 authors. ese included Contact: Sally Thomas 01822 Contact Carol Dowell 382158 Gentleman. Tana French, Fred Vargas, Stella Rimington, 832017 dilemma of finding a new pair of wellie boots on line and farcical events in the tea tent and is month’s book received a mixed collec - Andrea Camilieri, Ann Cleeves and several I Philosophy new authors, Alafair Burke, Tim Weaver, Sally I Jazz Appreciation the bedroom. Yes, I'll leave you to wonder tion of reports either it was confusing, bor - John Locke was our February choice, another Newton, and A L Gayling. Our tea time treat At our February meeting, 8 members met at about that last one! Next time, we are hoping Groups Continued... ing, got off to a good start then went down 17th century philosopher who struggled with for better results with Biographies.