NEWS !
Louth U3A
C A M E O
Coffee morning
Saturday
24th April
Conoco Room
Come And Meet Every One
Especially useful
to new
(and new-ish) members.
We are pleased to announce that LouthU3A has received a grant from Awards For All to purchase 8 laptop computers, a colour printer and a wireless router to make an internet connection to all the items. All the computers are equipped with Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop Elements software so they are quite versatile and capable devices.
The application for the grant was originated by the Digital Photography Group so that they could digitally process the pictures they were taking on their digital cameras. The Committee saw the potential of the equipment to be used for other U3A activities also so were willing to support the application in the name of the Louth U3A.
The equipment is already being used by the Digital Photography Group and further uses are seen to be short courses for beginners to computing and for those members who already have a computer but want to add to their skills and get more out of it.
See here for further details.
Computer courses - see Brian Cooper
The German Group
In what is becoming a regular feature of our year, for one meeting in December the German Group joined up with our equivalent from Market Rasen U3A. ‘Not too much work’ had been the plea from Market Rasen, so about 18 of us met at Martha’s home for a more social occasion. Louth members took turns to read German Christmas poems and stories, and having done our homework, were able to supply some ad hoc translation where appropriate. Martha interspersed these with recordings of Christmas music. Market Rasen planned to test our speed with German numbers, during a game of Bingo.
We enjoyed an extended coffee/tea break, which allowed more informal German conversation to take place, though sadly, the less skilled of us lapsed into English. We were also able to indulge in treats like Lebkuchen, Stollen and Schwarzwaldkirschtorte (spicey cookies, marzipan cake and Black Forest gateau). Martha pointed out that many of the traditional festive treats were symbolic of the Christmas story; for instance Stollen depicts the Child (marzipan) wrapped in swaddling clothes (dough sprinkled with white icing sugar).
We are grateful to Martha for all the work she does for the group and were pleased to welcome a new member this year. We have room for more if you have some basic German on which you would like to build. At our regular meetings we each contribute a short prepared piece, which leads to grammar and vocabulary points and conversation; or work on a theme, story or poetry suggested by Martha. Please contact Martha for further details.Rachel & Ralph Hewes 13/12/09
Mah Jongg group has started and meet on the
1st Monday of every month
Next meeting is 1st March
Beginnners welcome.
Contact Peter and Glenys if interested
New Gardening Group?
The exploratory meeting on 7th September was well attended and it is expected that the new group will meet again on the
1st Wednesday of every month at 10 am
(Group is full at the moment)
Anyone interested to contact
Sue Young or Rosemary Lindsay
NEW GROUP LEADER
Cynthia Wilson
See HERE
for more details
Sue Young and the Crafts group are selling very lovely greetings cards - priced from 50p to £1.20 -
at the next monthly meeting in September
Photographic Group newsletter
see here
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OPEN LEARN
Coodinator:- Julie Cooper
'OpenLearn' is a free, web-based source of modular learning material
provided by the Open University and available to everyone.
There are 12 areas of study, ranging from 'Law' to 'Science', with 'Arts &
History' and 'Modern Languages' appearing to offer the greatest interest to
our U3A groups. Each study area is broken down into units and the units
into modules, with between 5 and 20 hours needed for completion of the
various units.
'Arts & History' offers 65 modules, including 'Latin', 'The French Revolution',
and 'Family History' with numerous others dedicated to writing, drama,
fiction, poetry, music and art, etc.
'Modern Languages' offer 4 French, 4 Spanish and 2 German units, from
Introductory to Advanced level.
For further information, please contact Julie Cooper or,
to see the complete list of courses, go direct to:-
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/index.php
| Perfect bound B6 80pages. Includes 68 colour photographs Available at £4.99 from the Louth Museum and Wright's bookshop in Louth. Also from the author John Clarkson at £4.99 plus p&p Click here for more information or see John at the monthly meeting BIRDS OF LOUTH by John Clarkson |  |
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