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Newsletter September 2020

been recorded by many artists but best Chair’s Chatter: known perhaps when sung by Dean What a lovely Bank Holiday we Martin? had weather wise and I trust some of you Sweet, sweet memories you gave-a me, were able to get out and about and enjoy you can't beat the memories you gave-a the sunshine. Seems weird talking about me a Bank Holiday as now every day for us Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one is a Bank Holiday! stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy Some grief, some joy Whatever the weekend, I try to listen in to Memories are made of this Sounds of the Sixties with Tony Don't forget a small moonbeam Fold in Blackburn, singing along to blasts from lightly with a dream the past. We should make a list of what Your lips and mine Two sips of wine groups all our U3A members have seen Memories are made of this.... live! Corrie Ten Boom wrote ‘Memories are Then last Sunday night I watched ITV’s the key not to the past but to the future’ the best 25 Detective series as voted on and Stephen Spender wrote ‘History is by the public. I didn’t agree with where the living ship carrying memories to the some were placed in the pecking order future’. but in the end Sherlock Holmes came out on top. Take care and hoping to see some of you tomorrow on the Lawn for our informal However it wasn’t a case of let’s find the get together. photo and put everything back but rather each photo was looked at and memories Graham came flooding back.

Memories... we all have them, some Open Meeting on the Lawn good, some less so. Someone wrote that Weather permitting, we are holding ‘memories are very essential in our lives another meeting on the Lawn, Dawlish on because they allow us to grow and learn Monday 7th September at 2.00 - to be a better person. Our recollections 3.30pm. This is an informal meeting. can teach us very important life lessons, We will sit in groups of six and catch up demonstrate skills and abilities.’ The with each other and see what the others darkest nights produce the brightest are doing during this time. Please bring stars. your own chairs and drinks if you don’t want to buy drinks locally. Getting back to songs. Do you remember ‘Memories are made of this’ which has Learning Laughing Living www.u3a.dawlish.info Discussion Group Can you please contact Barbara to confirm that you have read the above risk Assessment Hi Everyone, We'll be meeting, not this Monday but and considered your personal situation. next on the 14th September to discuss Thank you. 'The World in 20 Years Time.' It was only when I started to consider the Swimming subject that I realised how massive it Cofton Holidays, Ashburn Springs Gym could be. Climate, world of work, politics, and Pool. Off the Exeter Road, bus stop the High Street, medicine etc so hope near entrance. Good disabled parking. you'll come along. The enclosed Good general car park. risk assessment shows you what's Swimming will begin again on Tuesday, involved & I'd be grateful if you could let 8th September at 2-30. It is a one hour me know you agree to the conditions we timed session and is open to the general have to have in place if you are coming. public as well as our group. Due to the Looking forward to hearing from you & present situation, numbers are limited, so seeing you at 10.30 a week Monday booking is essential. We book as (14th) in Dawlish by the band stand. individuals, not as a group. Book Thanks everyone through their online booking system or Barbara telephone 01626 890111. Payment is contactless at the time of booking. A Risk Assessment concession swim is £3.50. The sauna Please note your considerations and and steam room is out of action. actions to be taken to control the There are strict protocols in place and risks: they must be followed. Masks must be Social distancing: Attendees to be seated in worn when entering the building, but are the open air, 1m+ apart. If it rains, the obviously removed at the pool side. meeting will be cancelled/stopped. A risk assessment has been completed. Access: Open access to site I have been using the pool for a month Sharing equipment: group members to bring and I am very happy with the precautions own seats & refreshments & hand sanitiser, they have in place. See you next although refreshments are available to buy if Tuesday, people are comfortable with this. There are Barbara Warburton public toilets. Face masks: Optional Trace system: The convener will keep a list French Zoom Conversation th th of attendees Thursdays 10 and 24 September at Before activity Personal Checklist 10.30AM All participants to review their own personal health and circumstances and refer to current Zoom Quiz Government guidance for different risk Mondays 7Th and 21ST SEPTEMBER AT categories in Covid-19 and what measures are 7PM recommended for people over 70 and/or with various medical conditions. Did You Know? Consider the health risk category of anyone The last date that all living humans were else you are isolating with in your household. together on earth was November 2nd Learning Laughing Living Review the checklist for the activity above 2000. Since then there has always been completed by the group organiser and one human on board the International consider if you can take part without adverse Space Station. risk to your self or household. www.u3a.dawlish.info Pat Bentley Art Appreciation Dear Rachel, In the past few weeks members have When I saw your email I immediately been sending each other works of art felt that it was bad news. with some information about the paintings However, I'm delighted to hear that your and the artists, as well as some personal mother has settled well into life in Bude thoughts on these pictures. There has and has joined the local U3A. If she been an interestingly diverse range of remembers me, please give her my best suggestions. David Gearing introduced wishes. She is after all my senior by 6 us to some paintings from the French months! I’ll copy this reply to the artists Utrillo and Jacques Tissot, Chairman and Newsletter Editor of including La demoiselle de magasin. Dawlish & District U3A. I’m sure there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ will be many members in the Gardens & James_Tissot#/media/ Gateaux, Lunch Club and Here, There File:James_Tissot_- and Everywhere who will remember her. _La_demoiselle_de_magasin_- WE are all thriving but U3A life has _Google_Art_Project.jpg been somewhat quiescent under lockdown and continuing social Gwen Smith’s choice was Millais’ Ophelia distancing, as you can imagine. while John Vick selected some Love, George engravings by Hogarth as well as a painting by Constable. Chris Foote is a well known railway enthusiast so it was Open Learn no surprise that he shared two paintings OpenLearn, an arm of the Open of railway scenes by Stanhope Forbes University (OU), has a huge range of which are full of energy and life. These online FREE courses ranging from one to were a complete contrast to his earlier thirty hours. So, as winter approaches, or selection of some of Alma Tadema’s there is a second wave, this could be romanticised and dreamlike views of something different to do in the evenings. Ancient Rome. Forbes was a member of The OU has a lot of experience in making the Newlyn School and seeing these online courses interesting, engaging, prompted Lynne and John Vick in August even inspiring and, at this level, they are to visit the Penlee gallery in Penzance generally non-academic. Many of us where there is a fine collection of Newlyn have a bucket list of things we'd like to do School paintings. or places we'd like to see. With travel being very difficult these days, this could Barbara Warburton wrote about the be the answer to finding out more about a wealth of detail in Holbein’s famous subject or place that has always picture The Ambassadors, and gave new fascinated! It's well worth exploring the thoughts on Ford Maddox Brown’s The website! Last of England. It has been very https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ interesting to learn why members of the freecourses/full-catalogue group chose these pictures and this has “I didn’t realise this was all available and prompted us all to look deeper at them, Learning Laughing Living FREE!!” - I’ve already lost an hour of my and to find out more. life looking at all the things on which I would love to spend some time!! This is an excellent way to learn from each other and to enjoy art more. Using email works well for the Art App Group. It doesn’t all have to be on Zoom!

www.u3a.dawlish.info Answers to Last Week’s quiz - This week’s Quiz WHAT DO THE 3 PEOPLE OR THINGS MEASURE FOR MEASURE. TRY AND HAVE IN COMMON? NAME THESE IMPERIAL UNITS FROM 1. The Good life / Roobarb / Monarch of THE DESCRIPTION GIVEN the Glen - 1. 112 pounds = ? 2. Hinge / Pivot / Ball and socket - 2. 5 fluid ounces = ? JOINTS IN THE BODY 3. 4 inches = ? 3. Gibson / Simpson / Tanami - 4. 6 feet = ? AUSTRALIAN DESERTS 5. 8 gallons = ? 4. George Orwell / / Spike 6. 10 cables = ? Milligan - BORN IN INDIA 7. 8 pints = ? 5. Hoy / Muck / Yell - ISLANDS OF 8. 3 miles = ? 9. 16 ounces = ? 6. Steve Martin / Chevy Chase / Martin 10. 120 acres = ? Short - THE 3 AMIGOS FILM OF 1986 11. 22 yards = ? 7. Olympic Gold Pentathlon 1972 / World 12. 2 gallons = ? Cup Winner 1966 / Children’s TV 13. 3 feet = ? presenter - PETERS (MARY/MARTIN/ 14. 2 pints = ? ANDI) 15. 9 gallons = ? 8. Fuji / Alice / Lobo - VARIETIES OF 16. 14 pounds = ? APPLE 17. 640 acres = ? 9. Water/ Spud / Nerf - TYPES OF PLAY 18. 1201 square yards = ? GUN OR PISTOL 19. 5280 feet = ? 10. The Spinners / The Mojos / The 20. 2240 pounds = ? Swinging Jeans - GROUPS FROM LIVERPOOL Answers Next Week 11. / / - REPRESENTED THE UK AT THE Some Funnies 12. Lily of the Valley / Castor Oil plant / My wife always tells me off for putting the Foxglove - PLANTS THAT CONTAIN plates and bowls in the wrong cupboards! TOXICS THAT COULD HARM She thinks I’m dishlexic. 13. Apollo / Smart / Bitter - GERMAN CAR/ TRUCK MANUFACTURERS I said to the baker ‘How come all your 14. Locust / Gum / Aspen - HARDWOOD cakes are 50p but that one is £1?’ He TREES said ’That’s madeira cake’. 15. Kenneth Robinson / Anne Robinson / Robert Robinson - ALL PRESENTED A pirate goes to the doctor and says that BBC’S POINTS OF VIEW he has moles on his back. ‘It’s OK, 16. Sid Vicious / OJ Simpson / Venus they’re benign’ the doctor tells the pirate. Williams - THEY HAVE ALL BEEN Pirate again ‘You sure, I think they’re be CHARGED WITH CAUSING DEATH ten!’ 17. Chelmsford / Brighton / Salisbury - HORSE RACING VENUES I prefer classical music but my wife can’t 18. Crackpot / Jump / Wetwang - Handel it. PLACES IN YORKSHIRE 19. Antennae / Honeybees / Networks - WARNING: To the person who stole my EACH HAS A NUMBER WITHIN IT glasses – I will find you, I have contacts.

20. Helena Bonham Carter / Anne Learning Laughing Living Hathaway / Hugh Jackman - THE FILM Got all emotional at the petrol station ‘LES MISERABLES’ today; I was filling up. www.u3a.dawlish.info