Members’ Trips
Liverpool Empire theatre to see the musical Blood Brothers
Date Wednesday 19th March 2025
Price £52 [includes the drivers tip]
Depart from Sandbach @ 9.30am
Leave Liverpool @ 5-5.30pm
To book please contact Alice Holmes
Phone 01270765856
email fholmes467@btinternet.com
Or visit the u3a help desk on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month 10.30 to 11.30 am at Sandach Library
Do you enjoy working with computers?
Our website is a key tool for communicating with and updating our members. We are looking for people who enjoy working with computers and would be interested in helping with simple updates and gradually learning more about how our website works. It’s being sensible, interested and prepared to have a go that matters most, and Alan Casey, our website manager, would be more than happy to have several sessions with any interested parties so they could find out, without commitment, what’s involved. To explore if it might suit you or for an informal chat please email Alan alancasey316@gmail.com
Group vacancies
Tai Chi – weekly on Monday’s from 2-3pm at the Wesley Centre
Our experienced Tai Chi instructor David Bailey offers a gentle and relaxing form of exercise which offers benefits to general well-being as well as improving mobility, balance and strength. This is a paid tutor group, so payment is normally in advance the cost is £3.50 per session. If anyone is interested in attending a taster session
please contact groups.co-ordinator@sandbachu3a.org.uk
Yoga 4 – weekly on Thursday’s from 11.30am-12.45pm at the Masonic Hall
Yoga 5 – weekly on Thursday’s from 1.00pm-2.15pm at the Masonic Hall
These groups practise Hatha and other types of Yoga. Our instructor Tash believes yoga is an accessible and universal practice that has something to offer to everybody no matter how big or small. It doesn’t require you to have any prior knowledge, ability or experience, or to be able to “touch your toes”.
Tash’s aim as a teacher is to make your experience inclusive, practical, functional and as enjoyable as possible. Even if it’s just by 1% as long as you come away from the class feeling better than you did before – that is yoga! These are paid tutor groups, so payment is normally in advance, the cost is £3.00 per session. If anyone is interested in attending a taster session please contact
groups.co-ordinator@sandbachu3a.org.uk
Could you save a life?
Learn CPR in 15 minutes with the British Heart Foundation
To find out more click on the image or follow this link https://www.bhf.org.uk/revivr
Dementia Support
We have been in touch with 2 local support groups for those with dementia, their families and carers
They are mainly looking for people who will benefit from the group, those living with dementia and their family/carers, however, if there is anyone who would like to volunteer to help at the sessions that would be marvellous.
The Sandbach Ukelele band are coming to the November meeting, so it would be great to get good turn-out.
Julie Andrews Turning 79
Here are the lyrics she used:
(Sing It!) – If you sing it, it’s especially hysterical!!! )
Botox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favourite things
Cadillacs and cataracts, hearing aids and glasses,
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favourite things.
When the pipes leak, When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favourite things,
And then I don’t feel so bad.
Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favourite things.
Back pain, confused brains and no need for sinnin’,
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin’,
And we won’t mention our short shrunken frames,
When we remember our favourite things.
When the joints ache, When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I’ve had,
And then I don’t feel so bad.
Finally some more traffic news
A lorry has shed its load of pens, pencils, rubbers, paper clips and rulers. Surrounding traffic is completely stationery.