Quizzes
December Answers https://sandbachu3a.org.uk/sandbach-u3a-general-knowledge-quiz-december-2024-answers/
January Questions https://sandbachu3a.org.uk/sandbach-u3a-general-knowledge-quiz-january-2025/
Trips Out
Ludlow Spring Festival 10th May 2025 – £28
Ludlow Spring Festival is a vibrant celebration of great food, drink and live entertainment – all against the backdrop of Ludlow Castle. It’s the home to SIBA’s biggest beer competition – covering the West and Wales, where regional breweries battle it out with their craft ales. There will be live music, comedy, talks and tastings and the Marches Transport Festival.
The coach will depart from outside the Military Arms at 9am.
(The fee includes the coach, festival tickets and a tip for the driver.)
Ludlow Spring Festival Website
Staffordshire county show 24th May 2025
Alice is organising a trip to the Staffordshire County Show on 24th May. The showground is within easy walking distance of Shrewsbury town centre – along the river – there will also be river taxis operating. Details to follow but add it to your diaries now. The price is still to be decided but it will include tickets to the County Show.
Shropshire County Show website
For further information on either trip:
- Sandbach u3a information desk in the Library on the second and fourth Wednesday.
- Contact Alice on 01270 765856
New Members’ Welcome Leaflet
Members of the Really Useful Group are working on an updated leaflet to be given to new members as they join. We want to include as many photos of our groups enjoying themselves as they learn new skills and interact socially. We are looking for any pictures you may have of your group(s) to include in the leaflet so please send them to me to be included in the new members’ welcome leaflet
Finally
“When You Are Old”
WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
~W.B. Yeats
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1989)