Jane Lacey smashes record for cancer charity

"Well what an amazing day we had; the sun shone and the people came.

We smashed last year's total taking £1,600 on the actual day, which was incredible. The Justgiving page raised £838 and with further donations, the final total was £2,648.

I need to thank all my family and friends and people I don’t know who have helped and supported me over the last few weeks. 

I couldn’t have done it without you.

Here’s to next year." Jane Lacey

Kibworth & District u3a Open Day

Entitled DiSCOVER! we are having an open day on 11 October.

For more information, click on: https://www.kibworthu3a.org.uk/discover

The event is being organised by Karen, Brigette and Jill. Be sure to make a diary note and come along. Most importantly, tell your friends and neighbours.

Great News - New Bridge Group

Joyce and Clive Huntley are establishing a new Beginners’ Bridge group.

It is planned to take place on Thursday mornings at their house.

They have a few people interested and are open to more takers.

If you are interested to learn how to play bridge with others in a friendly, sociable way, contact Joyce and Clive on clive@huntley22.plus.com

Joyce and Clive are well-practiced at teaching bridge, having successfully done so for 3 other K&D u3a groups.

Bridge Group Re-naming

Mary Ireland’s Bridge Group, called Beginners' Bridge is now changing its name to Monday Social Bridge simply because it's not a beginners' group any more.

Also, from now on, Joyce and Clive’s Social will be called Thursday Social Bridge.

Online Bridge remains the same.

New French Group up and running

Diane Stewart reports:

The French Conversation group has formed and we have met up for the first time. We are very excited about how we are organising the group. 

The good and bad news - depending on your desires - is that the group is full. We have as many members as we feel we can accommodate. 

However, life changes will inevitably mean that some people will not be able to continue. So we are happy to have a waiting list. 

Christmas Wreath Making

Brigette, Karen and Jill are organising a Christmas wreath making evening for U3a members. The studio at the Hub is booked for Tuesday 9th Dec from 6 - 9 pm. 

This will be chargeable for those wishing to attend to cover the hire costs of hall. There will be limited places, so if you are interested, please contact Brigette:

brigettetaylor1957@gmail.com

Harborough Climate Action

u3a member, Julie Fagan reports:

This is our next session at Harborough Climate Action, about flooding prevention etc with Bruce Durham, a retired water engineer.

Another trip to Brixworth. This time.... to drink wine!

Stephen Poyzer reports:

The wine tasting group took to the road in September for its wine tasting experience at the local vineyard known as Fleur Fields in Brixworth on Friday 19 September. 

We knew we wouldn't be fit to drive home afterwards, so the party travelled on the regular Stagecoach service bus X7 (armed with our bus passes) to the far end of Brixworth village overlooking Pitsford Reservoir pumping station from where we leisurely walked all 200 yards or so to the vineyard. Here we met the owner Bill, a sprightly 83 year old, who gave us the low down on his victualler activities and invited us to sample some eight of his wines.  

Some of the wines we liked a lot and we bought bottles - yet to be delivered for free - others were not so well liked.  A wander through a small but beautifully managed field of vines with its three varieties under a blue sky was extremely enjoyable. 

We were invited to pick the almost ready grapes from the vines and taste.  They were incredibly sweet and harvesting is planned for the 27 September which will be done in a single day!  The hand-picked grapes go to a specialist company in Gloucester for processing.  There were both red and white grapes. 

Bill, our host and owner of the vineyard, was an excellent presenter with some rather splendid anecdotes. 

The wine tasting party now replete travelled back together on the bus and a great time was had by all.