Christine Johnson completed the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain starting at St Jean Pied de Port in the foothills of the French Pyrenes. The trip took six weeks from 19 August to 28 September 2013 and covered 494 miles. “Congratulations on your success [...]
Success for Seaham Harbour U3A Seaham Harbour U3A entered the 2013 RITA competition. RITA [Research Ideas from the Third Age] is a regional initiative overseen by Newcastle University. The purpose of RITA is to develop a research culture within U3A’s in collaboration with local universities. By ‘research culture’ we [...]
December Meeting - I am unable to arrange a date with enough people attending so unfortunately I am going to have to cancel this one. The January meeting will be the last Wednesday in the month and relevant information will be available at the January Dow House monthly meeting.
Weekly classes: Every Friday at 09.00a.m in Dalton le Dale Village Hall. Cost of each 45 minute session is £4. Taster sessions were held in October and classes begin in November. Instructor is Sharon Thomas. Strictly Ballroom Group. These partner free classes are perfect for anyone looking for an introduction [...]
The group explored a broad chord of Music this month from a wide variety of viewpoints. Twelth Night was the source of the famous sonnet “If music be the food of love…” by William Shakespeare before going all Biblical with The Dirge of King David. We were then transported [...]
Animals was the theme for this month’s Poetry workout and even though there was only three members there was still a strong turnout from the Animal Kingdom with several species represented. Cats were very popular especially Millie, the Happy Cat from Marilyn Jacob and Joanna Hatfull’s Camouflage Cat as [...]
PATCHWORK GROUP Sessions between 10.30 – 12.30 At: - SEATON VILLAGE COMMUNITY CENTRE The following dates were agreed:- 2013 JULY 10 NOVEMBER 13 24 27 AUGUST 7 DECEMBER 11 21 2014 SEPTEMBER 4 JANUARY 8 18 22 OCTOBER 2 16 30 Please contact Jean for further details. [...]
The quilted picture is part of a larger panel, called "Fabricholics Forever". Moda fabric. One picture was taken from the panel, and a boarder was put around it and quilted "in the ditch". The picture depicts the workers making "chain blocks" for nine square blocks to be made [...]
The Poetry Group delivered bouquet of flowers in both classical and modernist styles. We found that there was an abundance of flowery poetry in the days of the Grand Tour when gardening was both an art form and a science Inevitably Daffodils reared their golden trumpets to the sky [...]
The Poetry Group delivered bouquet of flowers in both classical and modernist styles. We found that there was an abundance of flowery poetry in the days of the Grand Tour when gardening was both an art form and a science Inevitably Daffodils reared their golden trumpets to the sky [...]
