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NEWSLETTER EDITION 20October 2017

RADLETT & DISTRICT

September—a busy month

The September 2017 monthly meeting marked the fifth anniversary of our launch meeting back in 2012. Since that date the number of members, interest groups and outings has grown dramatically. The anniversary was marked by eating cake with the first slice cut by our Honorary President and founding Chairman, Gerald Bernard, as shown on the left.

Following the September monthly meeting, the lunch to thank everybody who helps to run our U3A was held at the Bushey Sports Club. Everyone was greeted by our Honorary President, Ger-ald Bernard, and our Chair- man, Joan Miller. After a meal of vegetarian lasagne and salad, Joan thanked all those present for their con- tributions to our U3A, as

shown on the right.

We en-tered a team into the HertsU3A Net-work Quiz held on Friday 22nd September 2017. The team con- sisting of Teresa Feldman, Roger Mackett, Joan Miller, Lorraine Oliver, Peter Turner and Ursula Whitehill, shown on the left, came 11th out of 21 teams in the main quiz and 15th in the ta- ble-top quiz.

Our website: www.U3Asites.org.uk/radlett

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Dear Members

The U3A offers us a chance to try something new in our retirement. When you are thinking about ways that you can contribute to the U3A, please don’t restrict yourself to the skills from your working life. Think outside the box. The first step to starting your own group would be to contact our groups’ co-ordinator, who will support you. There might be a Third Age trust subject advisor on the topic and DVDs available from the resources centre. It could be any subject that takes your fancy from Architecture through Mah Jong to Zoology. You definitely don’t have to have a degree in it, or any teaching qualifications, just enthusiasm. Please consider it and take the plunge.

Best wishes

Joan Miller

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Outings and EventsThe Outings and Events Sub-Committee has organised a number of visits and meetings over the past few months. Some of the highlights are shown below.

Audley End House, Saffron Walden, Essex

On Wednesday 6th September 2017, 31 of our members visited Audley End House – one of the great houses of 17th Century England.

The house is set in magnificent Capability Brown designed parklands, gardens, and lake complete with wild fowl. We explored the impressive interiors, including the upstairs storage coal gallery and the nursery suite. In the afternoon we were treated to a very informative guided tour of the Victorian servants’ service wing. A short walk from the house found our members at the 17th Century stable block, complete with horses, and beautifully maintained kitchen gardens, on the way, passing water features and many majestic mature trees.

The weather was very kind to us and all our members thoroughly enjoyed their day in the countryside.

Cinema Museum

On 20th July we repeated our successful March visit to the Cinema Museum in Kennington.

We were met by our guide attired in an authentic commissionaire’s uniform. He proceeded to take us back in time to the golden age of the cinema in the last century, recreating the atmosphere of the cinema experience of our youth and even earlier times.

This museum is housed in one of the last remaining Victorian workhouses and our guide regaled us with an account of life within its walls, especially in regard to one of its most famous residents, Charlie Chaplin.

We were then taken on a tour of the museum, which is crammed with hundreds of artefacts from the earliestdays of the cinema.

After a break for refreshments, we returned to the museum’s small cinema where we were treated to a series of short films from the early 1900’s and continuing until the days of the coffee bars and clubs in Soho.

All our members who came on this visit thoroughly enjoyed themselves and we hope to make a third visit next year so that those who have been unable to attend so far will have an opportunity to enjoy this experience.

Vivien Summers

The talk on hearing dogs

Fiddler on the Roof at Chichester Theatre

On 17th August I arrived at the coach stop at 8.30 am for our day out to be met by strangers. Oh dear: have I got the wrong day, am I going senile - fortunately not: it was the Radlett Horticultural Society also on a day out with a coach at the same time. We had both booked the same coach company so I had to be careful to get my 53 members on the right coach and give the doggie bags I had organised for the longer journey to go to the right people.

All was well - we had a really good journey down to Chichester, the sun shone on us when we were there so that everyone was able to see the town and relax for lunch and the theatre performance was fantastic. The theatre is great, you can see well from anywhere, Omid Djalili: was the main part of Tevye and he was excellent, as was all the supporting cast and the production.

Everyone was back promptly and apart from the usual M25 snarl up near Heathrow the journey was good. The group were really sociable, we had some new members with us and it was a really successful day.

This followed another really successful day to Windsor Farm Shop with a Runnymede river cruise and a cream tea. A good outings week!!

Adrienne Cohen

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A word from Adrienne Cohen

Outings and Events

As many of you now know I am standing down from my position as Events Organiser at the AGM in November. I have been doing it for five years and have enjoyed it immensely. It has been extremely stimulating, hard work at times to permanently try and find new and interesting outings, but incredibly rewarding. I have met some wonderful people and had some really great times with them.

I have had a terrific committee and between us we have organised about 150 outings since the first one in February 2013. There have been 34 theatres, gardens, stately homes, museums, exhibitions, river trips and 9 talks at home (a new venture for us, and proving very popular). We have been up the ladder from the Amazon Warehouse (3 times) to the Supreme Court, the Houses of Parliament and the Old Bailey. These have been mixed with quizzes, eating out, walks, backstage tours, etc. We have introduced coffee mornings for new members, so that they can learn about what we are, and to feel that they will recognise some faces when they walk into the main meetings. These have all beenvery successful.

The trip on the Thames at Runnymede

I hope that you have all found it varied and interesting: we have tried to incorporate outings for everyone. I have no doubt that the new committee will continue to do their very best to satisfy your needs. It will also help if you can tell them what you would like so that they can research it, but please remember that it may not be viable.

I am leaving the committee in very capable hands and I wish them luck and hope they get the same enjoyment out of it that I did. Finally I must give one enormous thank you to my valiant committee for being so supportive, particularly Bryan, our treasurer, when our outings either made a little too much money and we gave refunds or lost some. He was a constant strength.

Thanks to them, the Main Committee and all of the members who came along with us. I will miss you and the job but please continue with your support.

Adrienne Cohen

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General meetings are usually held at 10.00 am on the second Tuesday of each month, at the Bushey Sports Club, Aldenham Road, Bushey, WD23 2TR. All members are welcome; membership cards should be brought and also a cheque-book for booking outings. The 602 Uno bus serves Radlett and Bushey, leaving the Red Lion, Radlett at 9.08am, and returning at 12.06pm. Concessionary bus passes, issued in Hertfordshire, can be used anytime on this route. The Club’s car park, though large, can be nearly full by 9.30am, so it is advisable to share lifts; if you need a lift, or can offer spare seats, please contact the Almoner through the website.

Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting will be held on at 10.00 am Tuesday 14 November 2017. All relevant paperwork will be sent to members by email beforehand.

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Monthly meetingsAndy Thomas gave a talk entitled ‘A conspiracy history of the world’ at the June 2017 meeting. He explained the concepts of ‘False Flag’ and the ‘New World Order’. He then explored conspiracy theories from Nero burning Rome in 64 AD through the Gunpowder Plot and Titus Oates to more modern theories such as the deaths of Princess Diana, John F Kennedy and Dr David Kelly, Watergate, 9/11 and the moon landings.

In July, David Burnell talked about ‘The Myth of Metroland’. He explained how the Metropolitan Railway was developed by Sir Edward Watkin by selling off parcels of land along the line to developers, having installed the basic infrastructure. The name ‘Metro-Land’ was coined in 1915 and was used to market houses in the area using posters depicting bucolic scenes encouraging people to believe that they would be living in pastoral areas. The publicity was so successful that the areas became highly developed, so that they no longer offered the lifestyle promised.

Brian Wass explained to members how they could become criminals at the August meeting. After a career in the Metropolitan Police, Brian became head of security for Fenwick, the department store chain, where much of his time was spent catching shoplifters. He explained that most shoplifting is organised crime by gangs, often from overseas, and that on a typical Saturday about 30 of the 25,000 customers in the Brent Cross branch are there to steal. He described the signs that potential shoplifters exhibit and the various ways in which they steal goods, including changing the price on tags or swapping them between expensive and cheap goods, and hiding goods in the sleeves of jackets which had had the ends sewn up.

In September, Judy Anderson spoke about Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) where she is Legacy Development Manager. She started her talk by describing the history of the hospital from its founding by Dr Charles West in 1852, with support from Charles Dickens. Over the years the buildings have been replaced and modernised using funding from donations. Judy described a number of breakthroughs pioneered at the hospital including the first childhood leukaemia unit in Europe in 1961, the first machine to enable open heart surgery on babies in 1962, the first child bone marrow transplant in 1980 and the first child heart transplant in 1988. GOSH now covers 63 paediatric fields and continues to innovate, with a new centre for research into rare disease in children opening soon.

Study groupsAstronomy

On a fine morning in June, a party of 14 travelled to visit the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) near Cam- bridge. We started our tour at the former Ryle baseline. The eight 13m dishes are arranged in a large array designed to survey the sky looking for galaxy clusters by means of the ‘shadows’ they cast against the cosmic microwave back- ground. We then headed past a large dish operated by Jod- rell Bank towards an array of 10 smaller steerable dishes, and continued to the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope [COAST], designed to observe stars with angular resolution as high as one thousandth of one arcsecond. Next, we reached the ‘One-mile’ baseline of dishes, the first to give radio maps with a resolution better than that of the human eye. A great day, with more to see on a future visit!!

We have also been sun-spotting in the rec and failed to see the solar eclipse in August.

Graham Taylor and Simon Pyzer

Book Group (evening)

The evening book club meets every 4-6 weeks. We have read a variety of books over the year ranging from short stories to historical novels. Some of the books have been intriguing and challenging but most have led to lively discus- sions.

Chaos of the Senses by Ahlam Mostaghanemi The Wild Swans by Jung Chang The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton We are all Completely beside Ourselves by Karen Joy

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Study groups The Unreal and the Real (Short stories) by Ursula leGiin Finally, we ended at Carole Constad’s garden. Carole has a All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr small, flower filled, colourful, courtyard garden. With A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry limited space she has made it a delightful place to sit and A Painted House by John Grisham. admire the flowers, which of course we did whilst enjoying Sea of Poppies by Amitaav Ghosh tea and cakes to end our delightful day. The Millstone by Margaret Drabble A Tap on The Window by Linwood Barclay

In July 20 members of Garden Groups 1 & 2 got together for a bring and share lunch at Yvonne Harvey’s house. The plan

Meera Chandran was to eat in the garden but the weather was against us.We had a most enjoyable lunch seated at a long table

Current Affairs 1 sharing and sampling all the various dishes.

Current Affairs continues to flourish with an enjoyable Fortunately the weather was kind to us and we had coffeemeeting every month prompting many different and lively in the garden and a chance to see Yvonne’s wonderfuldiscussions across a variety of issues: always a fun and garden.interesting afternoon.

Sharon Abrahams.

Garden Group 2

In the two or so years that Garden Group 2 has beenmeeting, we generally elect to visit one member’s gardeneach time we meet. At our January meeting we allocatedgarden visits amongst the members to cover 2017.However, there was a clamour to be the garden to be ‘onshow’ in June simply because all our gardens are at theirbest then. So we decided to have a garden walkabout.

Six of us were free that day to show our gardens. Theweather was beautiful and we met at my house for coffeeand a stroll around my smallish cottage garden which was infull flower. Then on to Linda Lee, who has an evergreen Carole Yude

garden with many beautiful and unusual trees and shrubs.Doubling up in cars, we moved on to Avril Schindler, whose

Government and Society

garden has now reached maturity after 4 years. We all This expanding group continues to discuss political issueslearned a lot about landscaping as Avril took us through the concerning London and the UK and our influence in theway her garden had been designed to maximise focal points. wider world. Since June we have debated the wisdom ofWe had lunch in Avril’s garden followed by her homemade cancelling the Garden Bridge Project (sensible), whetherrose petal ice cream. Then it was off to Diane Myer’s garden Gibraltar will be sacrificed in the exit from Europewith everything from tree ferns, mixed borders, hidden (hopefully not) and whether the Lib Dems can become astatues and veg - and a very lively puppy! relevant third force again (unlikely).

Last but one was Yvonne Harvey’s garden with beautiful As the June meeting fell just after the General Election thisborders, a water garden, a small orchard and lawns. provided a fertile ground for analysing the unexpectedYvonne’s knowledge of plants is incredible and invaluable as result. The Brexit topic inevitably raises its head at eachwe went from garden to garden - if only we could all meeting and continues to vex us as to whether it will be ourremember the names! ‘Dunkirk’ or ‘D-Day’. The tragedy of Grenfell Tower and its

politicisation also proved to be an unhappy topic. This onewill run and run we fear as we move into the partyconference season. One thing that never occurs at themeetings is silence and the meetings always seem to closebefore everyone has exhausted their points to be putacross. But there is always the next time.

Alison Sinclair

Local History

Our group has been going from strength to strength and weaverage at least 40 members at our meetings. As most ofyou know we meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month at2pm at St John’s Church Hall in Gills Hill Lane and we canalways assure you of a warm welcome, deliciousrefreshments after the talk and great sociability.

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Study groupsThanks to a master plan by Tony Clayden we now have a vastly improved hall layout, making our meetings much more user friendly and a brighter outlook for both audience and speaker.

We have had some really interesting meetings over the last few months. Dave Armitage returned to give a highly ac- complished talk and slide show about the History of Shen- ley. In June, Stuart Nagler MBE most kindly led a marvellous- ly informative guided walkabout from the Oakway Watling Street to Chantry Cottage in Cobden Hill. The walk was so popular that he kindly repeated it very recently. It was thor- oughly enjoyed by everyone.

In July we were privileged to have Howard Guard MBE come to speak about his home, Netherwylde Farm and this was followed by a totally absorbing expertly-made film, put to- gether by Mr Guard, about the role of Hertfordshire during World War 1. A sunny August Thursday took 40 members to Reveley Lodge in Bushey for a cream tea and a tour of the House and gardens, which have been recently restored after they fell into disrepair following the demise in 2003 of Isla Chewitt, the last owner. Our September meeting attracted an audience of a record 82 people for a talk by Paul Ha- worth, the owner of Battlers Green House and the Farm opposite. He regaled us with many fascinating facts about the Farm and its history and surroundings.

We are most confident that we will be able to continue to provide a varied programme to our members at least during 2018 and my wonderful team will be helping me to compile this programme in due course, but any ideas for speakers are very welcome. Already booked are talks on Cassiobury Park, London Colney, Haberdashers School and Bricket Wood and we also plan to do some outside visits to places of local interest.

As ever I extend my really grateful thanks to my amazing team: Marion Bulkan for her invaluable help with absolutely everything, Carole Constad for purchasing and artistically presenting and labelling a delicious variety of cakes which everyone always comments on (the Banana cake is especial- ly popular!) Jackie Nathan for efficiently taking the money and names at the door, Adrienne Pyzer always cool and calm, stepping in wherever needed, and last but by no means least, my technical whizz kid Tony Clayden for his expertise in setting up, operating and then dismantling all the equipment which involves heavy lifting and is tiring work.

All my team go about their tasks with willingness and a great sense of humour and my leadership would be impossi- ble without them.

We are all so delighted with the direction the group is tak- ing, so please do come along to our meetings and see for yourself. If you are not receiving my monthly e-newsletter please either sign up at the next general meeting, or contact me via the Carrier Pigeon on the main website page.

Diana Lobatto

Looking@Art

On a beautiful summer’s day in June the Looking@Art Group visited Chartwell - Sir Winston Churchill’s home. We enjoyed touring the house and seeing a large selection of Churchill’s artwork, as well joining a talk in Churchill’s Stu- dio. This was the first visit where the Group travelled to- gether by coach and the day was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone.

We went to the Mall Gallery where there was an exhibition of tribal artwork: a fascinating mixture of artwork, fabrics, wooden and bronze sculptures and small pieces of furniture and masks as well as a selection of tribal jewellery and hats. It was thoroughly enjoyed by all and the guide made this an interesting and informative visit.

Linda Bloomfield

Remarkable Women

After exploring the lives and achievements of a number of remarkable women last term, twelve of the group started this term with an outing to Kensington Palace to see a very interesting exhibition on "Enlightened Princesses who shaped the modern world," about Princesses Caroline, Au- gusta and Charlotte, grandmother, mother and wife of George 3rd and their achievements. While we were there of course we visited the exhibitions on two other remarkable women, Queen Victoria and Princess Diana's beautiful dresses, and visited the State Apartments and gardens.

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Study groupsBelow is a photo of members of the group who came on our visit to Kensington Palace on Monday 18th September.

Our regular meetings will restart at my house as usual on Monday October 9th at 3.15pm, when Ruth Waxman has very kindly volunteered to give a presentation on Octavia Hill, social reformer and co-founder of The National Trust. Many thanks to Ruth. I will email further details nearer the time. We have had a number of good suggestions from group members about remarkable women whose lives we could explore this term, so we are looking forward to an interesting and enjoyable year.

Carmel Byers

Walking in London

The Walking in London group continues to thrive and recently there were two group walks discovering the hidden treasures and architecture in the Kensington area of London. The second of the group walks had the extra bonus of the Kensington Roof Gardens being open on the day their walk took place. These are located at 99 Kensington High Street, on the roof of the old John Barker store and the entrance to the roof gardens is located down a side street off the high street.

There are, three fully matured gardens on the roof, which include fully matured palms, olives and other trees, shrubs plants , bridges over various streams, wild life including flamingos’, other Mediterranean type structural buildings, well-kept lawns and pathways for one to wander through the gardens, together with café and restaurant facilities. A real hidden treasure.

As usual on these walks, once we leave the noise of the high street you enter a different world. Apart from the wonderful architecture of the buildings, that have stood for hundreds of years and look as magnificent today as they must have done when first built, we were also shown a low rise devel- opment of 2 storey houses, which contrasted with the 5 to 6 storey structures that the Victoria’s built, yet seem to com- plement each other perfectly. Apart from the interesting buildings and quaint little shops, the atmosphere changes significantly to that of a small village, with few cars using the roads and people riding bicycles or walking the streets. This is one factor that seems common on virtually all the walks we go on.

Bryan and Jan Fox

Walking with Dogs

Unfortunately this group has had to be disbanded because Brian’s dog, Jet, can no longer manage more than 30 minutes, and that too slowly for the other dogs. Nobody has come forward to take over from me, so after 4 years of great dog walks the group has to fold.

Brian Hardy

Wine Appreciation

Anyone can learn about wine at home if you observe the rules of Observe, Swirl, Smell and Taste.

However wine is better appreciated in the company of oth- ers and this group continues to provide a very convivial op- portunity to learn about the world's wines among our keen members.

We had an interesting sparkling tasting in July with a range of European wines, some of which were nicer than others in the sub £7 category. Two which did find favour was a Span- ish pink Prospero Gran Selezione Secco from Morrison’s at£6.50 and Asda's Prosecco Extra Dry at £6.95.

To test whether we all remembered what we had drunk, sorry, tasted, in the previous 12 months we had a blind tasting in September of 6 of our previous well liked wines. It was quite illuminating and instructive as your senses are changed when you do not know what you are tasting. Few of us could remember the details but recalled the wines once the label and details were revealed. Gary Harding won the prize for the most points scored. It was great fun and something which can be replicated at home easily.

The tastings lined up for the coming months are Wines of the Levant, a Miscellany from the Wine Society and a BYOB in December of each of our favourite wines with nibbles to accompany.

Cheers

Alison Sinclair

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Study groupsGroup Leader Day & Time AvailabilityAstronomy Simon Pyzer See website Booking for events essentialBook Group (day) Elaine Dyke 3rd Friday 10.00-12.00 noon Waiting listBook Group (evening) Meera Chandran One evening a month 4.45 pm Waiting listBowls (Lawn Bowls) John Tilsiter Call for information AvailabilityBridge (Relaxed Duplicate) Gary Harding 2nd & 4th Thurs 10.00 am Limited availabilityBridge (Intermediate & Int Plus) Jerry Packman Wed 1.30-4.20 pm Waiting listCanasta Ruth Steiner Once a month Waiting listChair-based exercise Valerie Conrich 2nd + 4th Wed 10.30-11.30 am AvailabilityChess Ron Wheal 3rd Wednesday, 2.00-4.00 pm. AvailabilityCircle Dancing - SW Herts group Lindsey March 2nd Wed 10.00 am, 4th Fri 7.30 pm For all U3A membersComputer Buddies & Queries Robin Crosher Individual help with computer etc. See websiteComputers (Apple & IPad - Improvers) Robin Beattie 3rd Monday 10.00 –12.00 noon Check availabilityCooking for One Chris Wood One meeting a month Waiting listCreative Crafts Laura Woolfe 1st Wednesday 2.00-4.00 pm AvailabilityCreative Writing John Denham 3rd Thursday in the morning Check availabilityCurrent Affairs Sharon Abrahams 1st Wednesday 2.00-4.00 pm Waiting listCurrent Affairs 2 Jackie Nathan 4th Thursday 2.00-4.00 pm FullCurrent affairs—Live chat Kay Bagon 1st Monday 3.00-5.00 pm AvailabilityDiscovering Shakespeare Maggie Stockbridge 2nd Wednesday 2.00-4.00 pm FullFilm and TV appreciation Ted Childs 1st Thursday 10.00 am AvailabilityFlower Arranging Diane Myers 2nd Monday 2.00 pm FullFolk and Country Dancing Fran Beak 4th Wednesday pm AvailabilityGardening 1 Fiona Smeethe 3rd Friday 2.00-4.00 pm Limited availabilityGardening 2 Carole Yude 3rd Friday or Thursday 2.00-4.00 pm FullGerman for Improvers Sandra Taylor 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 10.00 am Limited availabilityGovernment and Society Corinne Mallach 4th Tuesday 2.00 pm Limited availabilityHealth and Beauty Gillian Ellis 1st Tuesday 10.00-12.00 noon Limited availabilityHistory Geoffrey Smyth 1st Tuesday am Waiting listJazz appreciation Alf Keiles 1st Monday 2.00-4.00 pm AvailabilityKnitting and Crochet Sandra Sawyer 3rd Thursday 10.00-12.00 noon AvailabilityLine Dancing (with Bushey U3A) Mandy Burger Every Tuesday 12.15 pm AvailabilityLocal History Diana Lobatto 2nd Thursday 2.00 pm AvailabilityLooking @ Art Melvyn Bloomfield See website for details Ask if cancellationsMaths for Grandparents Joan Miller 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 10.30 am Limited availabilityMeditation Sheila Samuels Fridays 10.15 am every fortnight Check availabilityMoney Linda Bloomfield 3rd Thursday 10.00-12.00 pm Check availabilityMoney Matters (with Watford U3A) Gerald Bernard 1st Thursday 10.00-12.00 noon Open GroupMusic Appreciation Alan Byers and Tony Clayden 3rd Monday 2.30-4.30 pm Limited availabilityOpera Appreciation Catherine Ritchie 4th Wednesday 2.00 pm Waiting listPhilosophy Christopher Langdon 3rd Thursday 2.00-4.00 pm AvailabilityPhotography John Hyde 4th Monday 3.00 pm Waiting listPoetry Reading Rita Wheal 1st Wednesday 10.30 am Waiting listQuilting Carole Yude 1st or 3rd Tues 10.00–12.00 noon AvailabilityRacketball (at Radlett Tennis Club) Fiona Todd Fortnightly on Mondays 3.00 pm AvailabilityRemarkable Women Carmel Byers 2nd Monday 3.15 pm Limited availabilityRestaurants Vera Davey See website for details AvailabilityRussian (with Bushey and Watford) Cathy Pole Weekly on Thursday 3.45pm Limited availabilityScience David Bagon 3rd Tuesday 3.00 pm Check availabilitySinging from Scratch Godfrey Manning Monday pm at Edgware Waiting listSpain and Spanish language Ronald Culnane 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 3.00-4.30 pm Limited availabilityTai Chi Nona Clarke & Elliot Jacobson Every Wednesday 11.00-12.00 noon AvailabilityTai Chi for Beginners Nona Clarke & Elliot Jacobson Every Wednesday 10.00-11.00 am AvailabilityTennis /Rusty Rackets Jerry Packman Mondays 10.00-12.00 noon AvailabilityUkulele Harry Ferris Weekly Mondays 2.00-3.00 pm AvailabilityVegetarian cooking - 2 groups Joyce Marston and Diane Myers 1st Friday am & 3rd Tuesday am Group 2 availabilityWalking 4-5 miles David Bagon with others 4th Tuesday 10.00 am Open groupWalking in London and St Albans Geoffrey Smyth See website Booking essentialWalks (Longer) Fiona Turner See website Check availabilityWildlife (with Bushey U3A) David Bagon See website Check availabilityWine Appreciation Alison Sinclair 3rd Wednesday 2.00-4.00 pm Waiting listWings & Wheels (with Bushey U3A) Tony Hyams See website Open GroupWire Sculpture (with Bushey U3A) Zena Jacobus 2nd and 4th Tuesday 2.00-4.00 pm Check availability