May 22. Our group continues to meet on a monthly basis with good attendance from our members, usually averaging about 10 members present. We continue to enjoy our sessions, with a great deal of laughter involved. We have several different editions of the game, and we each have our [...]
Our May outing saw 12 of us visit The Great North Museum-Hancock to see their exhibition celebrating the 2020 Fine Arts BA Degree work from Newcastle University. It certainly was different, and saw many of us scratching our heads and looking mystified-even with the printed explanatory pamphlets in hand! [...]
Jack and I will be on holiday when the next coffee morning is due on 17th May (the Tuesday after the main meeting) but members can still meet in Poppies as usual between 10 and 12 o’clock for a chat and catch up. Lynn D will be there to [...]
Please note that the iPad Group for May is cancelled as Jack and I will be on holiday. Back to normal on June 7th. Thanks - hope to see you all then. JT
A wonderful day out for us all at Harrogate Flower Show. Flowers a plenty. There were many samples of liquid refreshment by some. Purchases galore. Most enjoyable day and nice to be getting back to normality. Gordon A
On 21st April, 24 members visited the newly -opened Spanish Gallery, at Bishop Auckland. The gallery itself, a stunning conversion of a bank building, housed a mind-boggling collection of paintings from the Golden Age of Spanish Art. We were all vastly impressed by the work we saw there, and [...]
As you know, we are scheduled to visit the new Spanish Gallery at Bishop Auckland on April 21st. I gather it is a beautiful exhibition space, housing the biggest and best collection of Spanish art outside of London , including works by El Greco, Velasquez and Murillo. This is [...]
Like all our groups COVID put a stop to our wine group meetings. Shame! Our last meeting being early March 2020 before the pandemic took hold. When legally allowed in 2001 we met outside in the garden. Fortunately, the weather was was favourable and it was lovely to see [...]
On March 17th our group visited South Shields Museum and Art Gallery to view the John Peace exhibition ‘Tyne and Tide’ John Peace lived and worked in Tyneside and painted landscapes depicting the region’s coasts and rivers, as well as scenes of local industry. Our members, in the main, [...]
Hello all! It was lovely to se so many members at South Shields on Thursday, and that everyone seemed to enjoy the exhibition. As you probably know, The Lindisfarne Gospels will be on display at the Laing Gallery for two months in the Autumn. As some of you may [...]