Upon returning from her trip to India, Su managed to squeeze in a couple of sketches for us. Watch this space for some interesting artwork in the near future.

Wine tasting. 

"It was heavenly!"

Stephen Poyzer writes:

We enjoyed an afternoon of wine tasting led by John Freeland. His selection is displayed as shown. Each wine represents a special place/time in his life. We finished the afternoon with a fortified 1945 wine. It was heavenly. 

Poetry

Carol Townend reports: 

The Poetry group met on Wednesday morning at the house of one of the members. We brought a selection of festive and humorous poems so it was a very entertaining session and included coffee and warm mince pies.

In January we will be looking at the work of the Liverpool Poets , Brian Patten who died recently , Adrian Henri and Roger McGough. 

Strollers

Update from Ros: 

Our most recent walk, on 26 November in glorious sunshine, was to the interesting village of Great Easton.  

If you don't know it, this village is a very pretty one with many charming stone-built buildings.  There are signs on many of them, describing their former uses - everything from an old butcher's shop to the 'old corset factory'.   

Several of the thatched roofs have animals on the ridge, which we enjoyed looking at.  This was followed by coffee in the local cafe, where we were made most welcome (but note that it is open from Wednesday to Saturday).  Thanks to Karen and Celia for leading this walk.  

Our next walk is on Wednesday 10 December, and this is the final one for this year.  The programme for 2026 will resume on 14 January and continues on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month.  Further details of the programme will be posted on the website: 

https://www.kibworthu3a.org.uk/interest-groups/strollers

Badminton

Phill Egan is calling for new members for his badminton group. (ed. - its really good fun).

"We play on Monday evenings from 6 to 7 pm at Kibworth Mead Academy sports hall. If you are interested in joining the group please contact me for further details"

Phone: 07415 326 924

Email: lordphillegan@gmail.com

Thursday Social Bridge

Clive and Joyce hosted a very enjoyable Christmas meal.  They all appeared to have enjoyed it!

Photo, courtesy Stephen.