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Chit-Chat Did You Know ...? 10 the Newsletter of Fun and Games 13 FEATURES THE BIZ 2 THE BUZZ 3 GROUPS 4 CHIT-CHAT DID YOU KNOW ...? 10 THE NEWSLETTER OF FUN AND GAMES 13 WHIMSY 14 EAST RENFREWSHIRE U3A PICTURE GALLERY 16 SCOTTISH CHARITY NO. SCO44004 EVENTS 18 PUZZLE SOLUTIONS 18 No. 94 April 2021 CONTACTS 19 TECHNICOLOR TOWN WHAT'S UP THERE? What's this chap reaching for? Find out in Picture Gallery. We all know where this is, don't we? If you don't recognise the place right CHAT LINE away, find the answer in The Buzz. Chit-Chat needs readers to keep FREE AT LAST sending in pictures, anecdotes, funny stuff etc. You can send it to me via the message bird, or post it on the ERU3A page in Facebook. MAKE CONTACT Use the link incorporated in the Chit- Chat heading to access our website, and the various message birds to contact group facilitators, as well as the Chairman, Secretary, Groups Coordinator - and me. Safe links to other websites may also appear. If you don't have access to the Internet, phone 07758 344 252 for With the recent easing of Covid information about groups etc. restrictions some of our members are getting together again for outdoor activities, socially distanced of course, as is evident from this photo. See more in Groups. Jim Hamilton 1 THE BIZ COMMITTEE NEWS Wednesday 19th May. Guest With the end of the financial year, speaker John Hope will be talking the Annual Report and Accounts, about Time Through the Ages. approved by the Independent Anyone needing help with Examiner, will be issued with the downloading and using Zoom should papers for the AGM on 16 June. Look contact June Weston out for the notice which you will ([email protected] or 07876 receive in May. 315981). A key task for the Committee has AMAZING been the ongoing planning for u3a ER u3a has reached agreement with Day on 2nd June. The Marketing and Robert Kerr who recently opened a Publicity Sub-Committee, which franchise Amazing Results estate fortunately has a member with agency in the Clarkston area. extensive marketing experience, has Robert and his wife Jane will give designed new bright and eye advice to u3a members and their catching tri-fold leaflets and posters friends and family. They offer free for event. These reflect the new u3a home valuations for all areas in East branding and will be available, with Renfrewshire and the whole of the little updating, for future use. In the southside of Glasgow. Robert has run up to u3a Day, and on the day agreed to donate £100 to our u3a itself, you should see some more from every sale generated through publicity and activity taking place the u3a. This doesn't mean that our around East Renfrewshire. u3a endorses Amazing Results. Any While Zoom continues to be the ER u3a member or any main means of meeting up, we hope friends/relatives of theirs must make that with most of us having had at their own choice when choosing an least our first jag, and restrictions estate agent. having eased significantly from 26th Find out more about Amazing April, meeting in person will be more Results and Robert through these likely in the coming months. safe links - Meantime, the Groups Co-ordinator https://www.amazingresults.com/ has been providing guidance about https://www.amazingresults.com/pre meetings to the outdoor groups. ss-releases/ The next joint Committee and Robert and Facilitators Meeting will be on 17th Jane Kerr May. The twice-yearly event will be 0141 639 on Zoom once again. 0404 MONTHLY MEETING 07791 246394 Members will again be asked to register their intention to take part in robert@amazi our next Zoom meeting on ngresults.com 2 THE BUZZ APRIL MEETING the burial mound at Maes Howe and Douglas Yates started the latest the standing stones at Stenness. virtual meeting on 21st April by mentioning a couple of events in June - U3A Day on the 2nd and our AGM on the 16th - and confirming that the membership remains steady at 475. Guest speaker Norman Newton was born in Glasgow in 1944, spent his teenage years in Nelson, New Zealand, and attended college and Mousa Broch university in the USA. In 1971 he returned to Scotland to work in university and public libraries, in Glasgow, Campbeltown and Inverness. He has written extensively on Scottish islands, Highland history and archaeology, and is now the reference librarian at Inverness Skara Brae public library. The Hebridean section of the journey His talk, entitled Muckle Flugga to took us to Skye, Raasay, Staffa, Lewis, Kintyre, took us on a tour of Barra, Mull, Lismore, Coll, Tiree and Scotland's islands, starting at Muckle Colonsay. Flugga, the northernmost point in the UK. Callanish Standing Stones, Lewis Muckle Flugga Lighthouse In the Northern Isles Shetland's prehistoric sites include the most complete broch on the Island of Mousa in Shetland, while Orkney's prehistoric wonders include the Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae, Castlebay, Barra 3 The Kintyre peninsula is included in the list of islands because it is alleged that 11th Century Norwegian King Magnus Barelegs persuaded the Scottish King Edgar to renounce in his favour Scottish claims to every island west of Scotland that a ship Tobermoray, Mull could circumnavigate with its rudder set. By sitting at the rudder of his ship, as it was dragged across the narrow ithsmus at Tarbet, Magnus managed to get Kintyre included. Kiloran Bay, Colonsay GROUPS AMBLERS and scones at the Wishing Well Cafe, This month some socially-distanced our ramblers appreciated just being amblers gathered in Eaglesham for able meet again. their first outing in many months. Facilitator Jean They enjoyed a lovely sunlit walk Swinbank hopes that from round the Orry, where they admired now on the group will be all the pretty daffodils. Despite able to resume their twice social-distancing ruling out coffee monthly meetings. 4 ENJOY THE ARTS on subscription or a pay-per- Lilias Dunlop reports on increasing concert basis. activity on the cultural scene. Amazon Prime is screening an eight- The V & A Dundee is to re-open on part series on The Life of Leonardo Saturday 1st May. Their new Da Vinci, starring Aiden exhibition, Night Fever: Designing Turner (Poldark) and Club Culture, explores the Freddie Highmore (The relationship between club culture Good Doctor). and design from the 1960s to today. FILM APPRECIATION Book now at: At the Group's April meeting, hosted [email protected] or call on by Bruce Cutler, the film selected for 01382 411 611. discussion was Colette , a 2018 The Royal Opera House launched the biographical drama about the life of new season on 9th April by screening French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle a new production of Kurt Weill and Colette. Everyone agreed it was an Bertolt Brecht's operas The Seven interesting story about an Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Songspiel. adventurous woman, superbly played This is available for £10 until 9th May. by Keira Knightley, and her Also, National Galleries of Scotland controlling husband, played very convincingly by Dominic West, who re-opened on 26th April, Glasgow Concert Halls are taking bookings took the credit for writing the books for new shows and Eastwood Park penned by his wife. Theatre has a fun-packed online programme. This year's online Aye Write festival runs over two weekends (14th-16th and 21st-23rd of May). A £50 pass allows access to over 60 events featuring 100 authors. The Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, running until 30th May, includes artworks across a wide The group then discussed films and range of media at a range of prices. TV programmes seen during the The Citizens Theatre is now taking month. Our film buffs are all very bookings for The Macbeths, which keen to get back to in-person will be screening from 3rd June at meetings and cinema outings, but 8.00 and will be available to watch meantime they are for 4 weeks. Tickets are free but a enjoying keeping things donation would be appreciated. going on Zoom. The RSNO | Digital Season is being from April to June 2021. It is available 5 HANDS-ON GARDENING made the parallel with Asbestosis. In Barshaw Walled Garden our They agreed that this well-acted gardeners agonised for some time dark and emotive film with a over how best to treat a window message was one to watch. blocked up with grey concrete The Mauritian is blocks, that jarred with the the horrendous surrounding Victorian red bricks. story of They eventually decided to make a Guantanamo Bay feature of the eyesore by fixing a and the people frame around it and installing a incarcerated natural art sculpture made from the there. The group ivy they were removing from the wall. hated to see One of the more 'arty' volunteers what was being added dried grasses, teasles and done to the twigs. detainees in their awful situation, but accepted that it is a story which must be told. The screenplay, cinematography and the acting were excellent and the movie buffs highly recommend this film with a message for the politically-minded who are not easily upset by man's inhumanity to man. First They killed My Father is the The new feature can be horrendous story added to throughout of the Cambodian the year. genocide, told MOVIE APPRECIATION from a child's perspective. The This month's movies all made brutality of the political statements, and were both Khmer Rouge, as thought-provoking and harrowing. they selected Dark Waters is children to indoctrinate is horrible. the story of the The victims starved in vile conditions litigation against just because they were the wrong Dupont re type of people.
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